Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of
René Rémond
René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and a ...
, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of
Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history.
Ory is a professor at the Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is president of the Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) and regent of the
Collège de 'Pataphysique.
Involved in politics, he was a municipal councillor, formerly an ally to the mayor
Georges Lemoine Clément Georges Lemoine (16 January 1841 in Tonnerre – 13 November 1922 in Paris) was a French chemist and hydrologist. He was the father of geologist Paul Lemoine (1878–1940).
He studied at the École Polytechnique and the École des po ...
, and head of the
socialist
Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...
list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of
Chartres.
Ory was elected to the
Académie Française on 4 March 2021.
Works
*''Les Collaborateurs 1940–1945'', Le Seuil, 1976, 331 p. nouv. éd., coll. « Points »-histoire 1980
*''La France allemande, Gallimard, "archives", 1977
* Nizan – Destin d'un révolté, 1980
*''Le Petit Nazi illustré. Vie et mort du "Téméraire" (1943–1944)'', Paris, éditions Albatros, collections Histoires/Imaginaires, 1979, 122 p. rééd. revue et augmentée, Paris, Nautilus, 2002. Preface 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 ...
– on a Nazi propaganda review for children
*''L'Anarchisme de droite ou du mépris considéré comme une morale, le tout assorti de réflexions plus générales'', Grasset,
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, 1985, 288p. – an openly polemical work "dedicated to the anarchists of the left"
*''Une nation pour mémoire. 1889, 1939, 1989 trois jubilés révolutionnaires'', Paris, PFNSP, 1992, 282p.
*Direction, préface et conclusions de : ''La Censure en France à l'ère démocratique (1848–...), Complexe'', coll. « Histoire culturelle », 1997, 358 p.
*''L'Europe ? L'Europe...'' (anthologie commentée), Omnibus, 1998, 900 p.
*''Le Discours gastronomique français des origines à nos jours'', Gallimard, collection "Archives", 1998, 203 p.
*''Les Intellectuels en France de l'Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours'', in collaboration with
Jean-François Sirinelli, réédition Armand Colin, 1999, 264 p.
*''Les Intellectuels en France, de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours'', republished and expanded, Paris, Armand Colin, 2002.
*''Du fascisme'', Paris, Perrin, 2003, 293 p.
*''L'Histoire culturelle'', Paris,
Presses universitaires de France, 2004, 128 p.
*''Goscinny (1926–1977) : La liberté d'en rire'', Paris, Perrin, 2007.
* ''L'invention du bronzage – Essai d'une histoire culturelle'' : Complexe (Editions), June 2008, 135 p.
*''La culture comme aventure. Treize exercices d'histoire culturelle'', Complexe, 2008
Honours
*
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...
: 2012
Arrêté du 15 décembre 2011
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* Chevaliers of the Ordre national du Mérite[http://ifs.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/29941/OryCV.pdf ]
* Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
References
External links
Personal page
at Pantheon-Sorbonne Université Paris 1
Online articles
"L'Histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine : question et questionnement"
''Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire'', vol. 16 (1987), pp 67–82
nonfiction.fr, 2008, critique by Christophe Prochasson
"Lectures de plage : à propos de deux histoires du bronzage"
nonfiction.fr, 2008, critique by Antoine Roullet
Online conference
Américanisation:le mot,la chose,le spectre
Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal, 22 February 2007.(video available)
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Living people
1948 births
People from Fougères
University of Paris faculty
20th-century French historians
Historians of anarchism
Comics critics
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Members of the Académie Française
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
French male non-fiction writers
21st-century French historians