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Jean-Clement Martin, born on 31 January 1948, is a French historian, a specialist in the
French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
, Counter-revolution and the War in the Vendée.


Biography

Jean-Clement Martin was a pupil of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. From 2000 to 2008 he was the director of the Institute for the history of the French Revolution, a center of academic research and teaching, connected to Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Since then he is professor emeritus. He studied the
Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.
as a “
memory space (social science) Memory space (french: lieu de mémoire) is a concept related to collective memory, stating that certain places, objects or events can have special significance related to group's remembrance. The concept has been coined by French historian Pierre N ...
”. For some years his research has focused on understanding violence, the contribution of
gender history Gender history is a sub-field of history and gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history. The discipline considers in what ways historical events and periodization impa ...
and the role of
religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...
and religiosity in the revolutionary process. He is opposed to considering the operations ordered in Vendée by the convention (whether the infernal columns, or the drownings of Nantes) as
genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...
. In his opinion, "there were war crimes and abominable battles, it is clear, but in no case a genocide". In 2016, he categorically denies (calling it "sacrificial"), the interpretation of the "
Marseillaise "La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du R ...
" that "qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!" (Let an impure blood water our furrows!) means in truth that the Fédérés of 1792 were proud to pour their own blood for their homeland.


Works

* ''Vendée-Chouannerie'', Nantes, Éditions Reflets du passé, 1981 . * ''Blancs et Bleus dans la Vendée déchirée'', coll. «
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, 1986 . * ''La Vendée et la France, 1789-1799'', Éditions du Seuil, 1987 . * ''La Vendée de la Mémoire, 1800-1980'', Éditions du Seuil, 1989 . * ''La Loire-Atlantique dans la tourmente révolutionnaire'', Éditions Reflets du Passé, 1989. * ''Le Massacre des Lucs, Vendée 1794'' (en collaboration avec Xavier Lardière), Geste Éditions, La Crèche, 1992. * ''Une région nommée Vendée, entre politique et mémoire'', Éditions Geste, 1996 . * ''La Révolution française, étapes, bilans et conséquences'', Éditions du Seuil, collection Mémo, 1996 . * ''La Vendée en 30 questions'', Geste Éditions, La Crèche, 1996. * ''Contre-Révolution, Révolution et Nation en France, 1789-1799'', Éditions du Seuil, 1998 . * ''Le Puy du Fou en Vendée, l'Histoire mise en scène'' (en collaboration avec Charles Suaud), L'Harmattan, 2000 . * ''La Guerre de Vendée'', Éditions Geste, 2001 . * ''La contre-révolution en Europe siècles. Réalités politiques et sociales, résonances culturelles et idéologiques'' (ouvrage collectif), Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2001 . * ''La Révolution française, 1789-1799'', Éditions Belin, 2003 * ''Violence et Révolution. Essai sur la naissance d'un mythe national'', Éditions du Seuil, 2006
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* ''Loire-Atlantique. Balades aériennes'' (en collaboration avec Michel Bernard), Patrimoines Medias, 2006 . * ''Comtesse de Bohm, prisonnière sous la terreur. Les prisons parisiennes en 1793'', Éditions Cosmopole, 2006 . * ''La Vendée et la Révolution. Accepter la mémoire pour écrire l'histoire'', Perrin, collection Tempus, 2007
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* ''La Révolution française'', Éditions Le Cavalier bleu, collection Idées reçues, 2008 . * ''La révolte brisée, femmes et hommes dans la Révolution française et l'Empire (1770-1820)'', Armand Colin, 2008 . * ''La Terreur. Part maudite de la Révolution'', Gallimard, coll. «
Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...
, 2010 . * ''Marie-Antoinette'', coauteur Cécile Berly, Citadelles-Mazenod, 2010, . * ''La machine à fantasmes. Relire l'histoire de la Révolution française'', Vendémiaire, . * Édition critique de ''Peut-on prouver l'existence de Napoléon ?'', de Richard Whately, Vendémiaire*, 2012. * ''Nouvelle Histoire de la Révolution française'', Perrin, 2012. * ''Un détail inutile ? Le dossier des peaux tannées. Vendée, 1794'', Vendémiaire, 2013, . * ''La Guerre de Vendée, 1793-1800, ''Points-Seuil, 2014 . * ''La Machine à fantasme, Relire l'histoire de la Révolution française, ''Vendémiaire, Rééd. poche, augmentée, 2014. * with Laurent Turcot ''Au cœur de la Révolution, les leçons d'histoire d'un jeu vidéo'', Paris, Vendémiaire, 2015. . * ''Robespierre, la fabrication d'un monstre'', Perrin, 2016, 368 pages. * ''La Terreur. Vérités et légendes'', Perrin, 2017, 238 pages. * ''Les Echos de la Terreur. Vérités d'un mensonge d'Etat, 1794-2018'', Belin, 2018, 316 p., 9782410002065A propos du livre Les Echos de la Terreur. Vérités d’un mensonge d’Etat, 1794-2001
/ref> *''Camisards et Vendéens. Deux guerres françaises, deux mémoires vivantes,'' with Philippe Joutard, Nîmes, Alcide éditions, 2018, 144 p.


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