Olivier Chaline (29 December 1964, [1] Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a contemporary French historian, a specialist of the history of Central Europe.
Olivier Chaline (29 December 1964, [1] Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a contemporary French historian, a specialist of the history of Central Europe.
The son of Jean-Pierre Chaline, himself an historian (a specialist on the French Third Republic), and Nadine-Josette Chaline, also an historian, Olivier Chaline entered the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in 1984. After he obtained his agrégation in history, he taught at the ENS before being appointed at the University of Rennes II (1999–2001) then at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He occasionally teaches at Charles University at Prague.
In 2006, Olivier Chaline was bestowed the Prix Guizot of the Académie française for his Le Règne de Louis XIV.
Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.
Louis Figuier was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. Louis Figuier was married to French writer Louise Juliette Bouscaren.
Jean Gwenaël Dutourd was a French novelist.
Michel Laclotte was a French art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century Italian and French painting.
Antoine Schnapper was a French art historian on art of the 17th and the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques-Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution. He taught at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
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.
Robert Muchembled is a French historian. In 1967, he passed the Agrégation in history. In 1985 he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on attitudes to violence and society in Artois between 1440 and 1600. In 1986 he became Professor of Modern History at Paris 13 University. He has written notably about witchcraft, violence and sexuality. Some of his works have been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Croatian, Modern Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese.
Michel Antoine was a French, modernist historian.
Nadine-Josette Chaline is a contemporary French historian, specialist in religious history, especially Christians in France.
Jean-Pierre Chaline, is a French contemporary historian, a specialist of the history of the French Third Republic.
The Société d'étude du XVIIe is a French learned society established in Paris in 1948 along the status of an association loi de 1901 in order to bring together specialists of this period and to develop studies on this century.
Sphinx was a two-deck 64 gun ship of the French Navy. She was built at Brest to plans by Ollivier Fils and launched in 1776. She took the name of a recently retired 64-gun ship with the same dimensions. She fought in the American War of Independence, most notably in Suffren's campaign in the Indian Ocean.
The Djidjelli expedition was a 1664 military expedition by Louis XIV to seize the port of Djidjelli and establish a naval base against the Barbary corsairs. There was a disagreement among the leaders of the expedition as to what its objectives should be. Ultimately the town of Djidjelli was taken easily, but after three months, heavily besieged and deprived of reinforcements by an outbreak of plague, the French abandoned the city and returned home.
The Shepherds is a c. 1717 painting by Antoine Watteau, now in the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin. It is the most finished version of a composition later reused by the same artist in Pastoral Pleasure.
Alfred Louis Auguste Poux, better known by his pen name Alfred Franklin, (1830–1917) was a French librarian, historian, and writer.
Béatrice Didier is a French literary critic.
Brillant was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was first classified as a Second-rank ship, and later reclassified as a Third-rank. She was built between 1689 and 1690 at Le Havre, under supervision by engineer Étienne Salicon. She served until 1719, and took part in the Nine Years' War (1688–1697) and the War of Spanish Succession (1702–1714).
Jean Meyer was a French historian who specialised in naval and maritime topics.
Events from the year 1639 in France
Christian Biet was a French professor of theatrical studies. His main work focused on the aesthetics of theatre.
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