Madeleine Rebérioux (8 September 1920,

Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the southeastern ...

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– 7 February 2005,

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) was a French historian whose specialty was the

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. She is also a historian of the

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. From 1981 to 1988, she was Vice-president of the

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in Paris. From 1991 to 1995 she was President of the

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and had been a signatory to the

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. She was an officer of the

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. Madeleine was an active board member of

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and later became its editor. Madeleine was against the war in

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. She was president of

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league of human rights - la Ligue des droits de l'homme - from 1991 to 1995.Madeleine Rebérioux
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Selected works

* ''Jaurès : contre la guerre et la politique coloniale'', Éditions Sociales, collection Les classiques du peuple, 1959. * ''La Deuxième Internationale et l'Orient'', Éditions Cujas, 1967 . * ''Jaurès et la Classe ouvrière'',

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, 1975. * ''La République radicale ? 1898-1914'', Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine, tome 11,

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, coll. Points, 1975 . * ''Les Ouvriers du livre et leur Fédération'', Temps Actuel, 1981. * ''Ils ont pensé les droits de l'homme'', EDI-Ligue des droits de l'homme, 1989. * ''Jaurès : la parole et l'acte'', Gallimard, coll. «

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/ Histoire », 1994 . * '' Fourmies et les Premier mai'', Fourmies Colloquium 1891/1991 (1991), Éditions de l'Atelier, 1994, * ''Parcours engagés dans la France contemporaine'', Belin, 1999. * ''Vive la République ! Histoire, droits et combats de 1789 à la guerre d'Algérie'', Démopolis, 2009 (recueil d'articles).

References

1920 births 2005 deaths Writers from Chambéry 20th-century French historians {{France-historian-stub