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 ...

, 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, and head of the

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of

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. Ory was elected to the

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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 – 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,

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, 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,

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, 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: 2012Arrêté du 15 décembre 2011
/ref> * Chevaliers of the Ordre national du MériteNYU Institute of French Studies CV
* 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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ory, Pascal Living people 1948 births People from Fougères Academic staff of the University of Paris 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 Knights of the Legion of Honour French male non-fiction writers 21st-century French historians