Lucette Valensi (born 1936) is a French historian ''née'' Lucette Chemla in

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Biography

After obtaining her bachelor's degree in history from the

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in 1958, she became a history and geography agrégée in 1963 then docteur d'État in early modern period in 1974. She joined the

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for a while, then became involved in the

anticolonialism Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence ...

that had moved her from support to the Algerian National Liberation Front to that of the . She began her teaching and research career in Tunisia between 1960 and 1965. After this North African experience, she was successively

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at the

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between 1969 and 1978, then Director of Studies at the

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(Paris), where she directed the Centre de recherches historiques from 1992 to 1996 before creating and directing the from 2000 to 2002. She also remains an associate member of the Centre de recherches historiques. In February 1979, she was one of 34 signatories of the declaration written by

Léon Poliakov Léon Poliakov (russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism and wrote ''The Aryan Myth''. Born into a Russian Jewi ...

and

Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (; 23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the '' École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, bu ...

to dismantle Robert Faurisson's

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rhetoric. She has a daughter, Jeanne, and two grandsons: Elie Ruderman and Gabriel Ruderman, also known a
Edi Rudo
a magician and mime.

Awards

* Chevalier of the

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* Commandeur of the

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* Officier of the Ordre tunisien du Mérite culturel.

Publications

*''Le Maghreb avant la prise d'Alger'', Paris,

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, 1969. *''Fellahs tunisiens: l'économie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siècles'', Paris, Mouton, 1977. *''On the Eve of Colonialism: North Africa Before the French Conquest'', London, Africa publications, 1982 *''The Last Arab Jews. The communities of Djerba, Tunisia'', Harmond Academic Publishers, 1984 ("The last

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"), translated under the title ''Juifs en terre d'Islam. Les communautés de Djerba'', Éditions des Archives contemporaines, 1985, in collaboration with Abraham L. Udovitch. *''Mémoires Juives'' (with

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), Paris,

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, 1986 *''Fables de la mémoire la glorieuse bataille des trois rois'', Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1992 *''La Fuite en Égypte : Histoires d'Orient & d'Occident'', Paris, Seuil, 2002 * * ''L'Islam, l'islamisme et l'Occident : Genèse d'un affrontement'' (with

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), Paris, Seuil, 2004 * ''Venise et la Sublime Porte : La naissance du despote'', Hachette, 2005 * ''Mardochée Naggiar : Enquête sur un inconnu'', Paris, Stock, 2008. * ''Ces étrangers familiers'', Paris, Payot, 2012 *''Juifs et musulmans en Algérie'', Paris, Tallandier, 2016

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valensi, Lucette 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians People from Tunis 1936 births Living people Knights of the Legion of Honour Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques