Évelyne Pisier
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Évelyne Pisier (18 October 1941 – 9 February 2017) was a
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and political scientist.


Biography

Pisier was born in
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on October 18, 1941. She was the daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier (June 30, 1910 - March 13, 1986), who was a Maurrassien supporter of the
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and was stationed in
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. Pisier was interned for four years in a Japanese concentration camp after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina. She then moved to Nouméa, where her father was transferred and where her brother Gilles Pisier was born. Her parents subsequently separated, so Évelyne Pisier settled in
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with her mother and her sister, future actress and director Marie-France Pisier. In 1986 her father committed suicide, and then in 1988 her mother also committed suicide at the age of 64. In 1964, as a feminist activist involved with the political left, she traveled with other students, including Marcel-Francis Kahn ( fr), to
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where she started a 4-year relationship with
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. She subsequently married
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, with whom she had three children. While continuing her activism, Pisier defended her thesis in public law in 1970 at the
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. Her thesis, entitled ''Le service public dans la théorie de l'État de Léon Duguit'' (The role of public service in
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's theory of the state), was completed under the supervision of Georges Lavau ( fr). Pisier then became one of the first women in the ''
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'', and in 1972 she was appointed to the Institut d'études politiques. Pisier subsequently had a second marriage with the French political scientist
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, with whom she adopted two children; she recounted these experiences in her 2005 book ''Une question d'âge'' (A question of age). In 1989, she was named the director of the French Government's Book and Reading Service ( fr) within the French Ministry of Culture, with a term lasting until 1993. In 1994, Pisier became a
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emerita at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Pisier died on 9 February 2017 in
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.


Selected awards

*''Chevalier'', French
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(1998) *''Commandeur'', French
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pisier, Évelyne 1941 births 2017 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni French political scientists 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers French women historians 21st-century French historians Spouses of politicians Women political scientists Deaths from lung cancer in France