Yves-Marie Bercé

Yves-Marie Bercé (30 August 1936, Mesterrieux, Gironde), is a French historian known for his work on popular revolts of the modern era. He is a member of the Institut de France.

A student at the École Nationale des Chartes and former resident at the École française de Rome, Yves-Marie Bercé defended in 1972 a doctoral thesis on the popular uprisings in the southwest of France in the seventeenth century. He is the author of Croquants et Nu-pieds published in 1974.

In this book he developed the strong antagonism between "good cities" and the "low country", namely between the bourgeois and the peasant world in France from the sixteenth to the nineteenth.

In 1998, all of his work was distinguished by the Madeleine Laurain-Portemer prize. He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on 30 November 2007 at the seat left vacant by Pierre Amandry.

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