Pierre Nora
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Pierre Nora in June 2011
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| Born |
17 November 1931 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Member of the Académie française |
Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931 in Paris) is a French historian elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of the late Simon Nora, former French officer.
Nora occupies a particular position that he himself qualifies as on "the side" of the French historical sphere.
In the 1950s he took hypokhâgne and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand but, contrary to a persistent legend, he was not accepted at the École Normale Supérieure. Thereafter, he obtained a bachelier ès lettres (equivalent to the Bachelor of Arts) degree in philosophy. He passed the agrégation d'histoire in 1958.
He was a teacher at the Lycée Lamoricière d'Oran in Algeria until 1960. He wrote book about it, published under the title Les Français d'Algérie (The French of Algeria) (1961).
From 1961 to 1963, he was a resident at the Thiers Foundation. From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Science). Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of higher studies in social sciences).
Concurrently, Nora had managed an important career in publishing. He joined Éditions Julliard in 1964, where he created the Archives paperback collection. In 1965 he joined Éditions Gallimard: the publishing house, which already had a good marketshare in literature, wanted to develop its social sciences sector. It was Pierre Nora who achieved this mission by creating two important collections, the Library of social sciences in 1966 and the Library of histories in 1970, as well as the Témoins collection in 1967.
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