Jean-Pierre Azéma (born 1937) is a French historian. Azéma is a member of the scientific counsel for the Institut François Mitterrand, an organisation founded by François Mitterrand with the goal of "contributing to the propagation of knowledge on the political and social history of modern France". He supported Ségolène Royal for the presidency. Azéma is the author of several prominent historical works, which make him somewhat an authority amongst France's historians. A specialist of World War II, more specifically of the Vichy Regime and the

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, Azéma is a university lecturer and teaches history at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He was also one of the historians called as witness for the trial of Maurice Papon, (alongside Marc-Olivier Baruch, Robert O. Paxton and Philippe Burrin). He was also one of the authors of the film '' The Eye of Vichy'' (''L’Œil de Vichy'') by

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. He attended the Conférence organised on the 60th anniversary of the death of Jean Moulin. He is the father of the Vichy historian Arianne Azéma.

Select works

*''6 juin 44'', 2004 (with Robert O. Paxton, Philippe Burrin) *''Jean Moulin : le politique, le rebelle, le résistant'', 2003 *''Jean Cavaillès résistant ou La pensée en actes'', 2002 (written under his direction) *''De Munich à la Libération: 1938–1944'', Cambridge University Press, 1990, new edition, 2002 *''Vichy : 1940–1944'', 2000 (with Olivier Wieviorka) *''1938–1948 : les années de tourmente : de Munich à Prague : dictionnaire critique'', 1995 (with François Bédarida) *''Histoire de l'extrême droite en France'', 1994 (under the direction of Michel Winock) Seuil, *'' Jean Moulin et la Résistance en 1943'', Jean-Pierre Azéma (ed), Institut d'histoire du temps présent, 1994 *''Les libérations de la France'', 1993 (with Olivier Wieviorka) *''La France des années noires'', 1993 (with François Bédarida) *''Le régime de Vichy et les Français'', 1992 (with François Bédarida) *''La III^e République : 1870–1940'', (with Michel Winock) Calmann-Lévy, 1970, new edition, 1991 *''1940, l'année terrible'', Seuil, 1990, *''Paris Under the Occupation'', Gilles Perrault, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Deutsch, 1989, *''Les communistes français de Munich à Châteaubriand : 1938–1941'', 1987 (with Antoine Prost and Jean-Pierre Rioux) *''Histoire générale politique et sociale : la France des années sombres, les années 40'', 1987 *''La collaboration : 1940–1944'', 1975 *''Les Communards'', 1964 (with Michel Winock) Éditions du seuil, 1970

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Jean-Pierre Azema, historien, enseignant à Sciences-po Paris
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