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Jean-Marc Olivier is a French historian born in 1961 in the town of Champagnole (Jura).
Olivier received the French agrégation in history and is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Toulouse. He was director of the CNRS research group FRAMESPA (Social history from the Middle Ages to today) from 2005-2013. He was elected Vice-President of International Relations at this university in June 2012.
Olivier specializes in small-scale industries (watchmaking, making eyeglasses, hat making) and in different models of economic development. His habilitation compared the French, Scandinavian, and Swiss cases of economic development in the 19th century. He has written a number of books and articles on these subjects, and created the concept of "soft industrialization", a process by which small production units, often in rural areas, played a large role in the industrialization of Continental Europe in the 19th century.
His current research focuses more specifically on the history of aviation and industrialization in France, Switzerland, and Scandinavia over the longue durée.
Patrick Cabanel is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes. He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.
Denys Louis de Rougemont, known as Denis de Rougemont, was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
Fayard is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
Paul Bairoch was a Swiss economic historian of Belgian descent who specialized in urban history and historical demography. He published or co-authored more than two dozen books and 120 scholarly articles. His most important works emphasize the agricultural preconditions necessary for industrialization and controversially claim, contrary to most scholars that colonization was not beneficial to colonial empires. He argued that tariffs and growth were positively correlated in the 19th century.
Pierre Milza was a French historian. His work focused mainly on the history of Italy, the history of Italian immigration to France and the history of fascism, of which he was a recognized specialist.
Alfred Jeanroy was a French linguist.
The history of Wallonia, from prehistoric times to the present day, is that of a territory which, since 1970, has approximately coincided with the territory of Wallonia, a federated component of Belgium, which also includes the smaller German-speaking Community of Belgium. Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the Walloon Region. The French word Wallonie comes from the term Wallon, itself coming from Walh. Walh is a very old Germanic word used to refer to a speaker of Celtic or Latin.
The Prix Guizot is an annual prize of the Académie Française, which has been awarded in the field of history since 1994 by Fondations Guizot, Chodron de Courcel, Yvan Loiseau and Eugène Piccard.
Pierre du Bois de Dunilac was a Swiss historian, whose research primarily addressed issues of European and Swiss history and politics. His work had a strong focus on analysing current affairs in a global context and on the role of history in shaping present-day political decision-making.
Jean-Pierre Chantin is a French historian of religion and author, associated with the University of Lyon. He specializes in the history of religion in France, including the Catholic Church and the role of new religious movements. He has published and edited several books on the topic of religion and NRMs.
Les Feuillants Abbey, also Feuillant Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery located in the present commune of Labastide-Clermont, about 8 kilometres south of Rieumes, department of Haute-Garonne, France. From the 16th century it was the centre of the Cistercian reform movement to which it gave its name, the Feuillants.
Gérard Dédéyan is a French professor of medieval history at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, a member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and associate member of the Collège de France. He studied Classical Armenian with Frédéric-Armand Feydit.
Daniel Moulinet is a French priest and historian, professor of contemporary history at the Catholic University of Lyon.
Louis Charles André Alexandre Du Mège or Dumège,, was a French scholar, archaeologist and historian.
The "Maison du Peuple" in Clichy, classified as official historical monument of France since 1983, is a building built from 1935 to 1939 in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne by the architects Eugène Beaudouin, Marcel Lods, the engineer Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé..
Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen is a French historian. She specializes in the history of public health and medical treatment. She is a professor of contemporary history at the Lumière University Lyon 2. She is a member of the Bültzingslöwen family, a Thuringian noble family.
Isabelle Morel was a French-speaking Swiss writer, translator and woman of letters who was most notable for her novel Louise et Albert.
Jean Meyer was a French historian who specialised in naval and maritime topics.
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel is a French historian. She is professor emeritus of contemporary history at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, and former co-director of the semi-annual journal, Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire. Her research focuses on the history of popular movements. She has published books and numerous articles in various journals. She is a specialist in the history of women and gender, as well as May 68.
Nahema Hanafi is a French historian and a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the University of Angers. She is interested in the history of epistolary practices and self-narratives, the history of medicine, women's place in history, and gender studies. She is co-editor of the journal Histoire, médecine et santé, and is the director of the master's degree in gender studies co-accredited by the University of Angers, University of Western Brittany, Le Mans University, University of Nantes, and Rennes 2 University. Hanafi is a Sigerist prize laureate.