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French historian
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.
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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
French Resistance , Azéma is a university lecturer and teaches history at the
Institut d'études politiques de Paris .
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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
Claude Chabrol .
[3] He attended the Conférence organiséd on the 60th anniversary of the death of
Jean Moulin .
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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 Münich à la Libération: 1938–1944 , Cambridge University Press, 1990, new edition., 2002
Vichy : 1940–1944 , 2000 (with
Olivier Wieviorka )
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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,
ISBN
978-2-02-018896-8
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 IIIe République : 1870–1940 , (with Michel Winock) Calmann-Lévy, 1970, new edition, 1991
1940, l'année terrible , Seuil, 1990,
ISBN
978-2-02-012131-6
Paris under the occupation ,
Gilles Perrault , Jean-Pierre Azéma, Deutsch, 1989,
ISBN
978-0-233-98511-4
Les communistes français de Munich à Châteaubriant : 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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