Pierre Nora

Jeunesse

Ce livre, est une encyclopédie exceptionnelle sur la culture française. Pierre Nora et ses collègues n'ont pas seulement compilé les traces et les éléments de notre histoire, mais ils les ont analysé et étudié pour leur conférer éternellement la dimension de symboles culturels. De l'histoire du Tour de France, à celle du drapeau français en passant par celle de la Marseillaise, "Les Lieux de mémoire" du tome 1 à 3 est un ouvrage indispensable aussi bien pour l'étudiant en sciences humaines , que pour toute personne curieuse de l'histoire : on y retrouve des couleurs, des idées, des odeurs qui font chaud au coeur...

Tome 2, La Nation : La gloire, les mots

Les lieux de mémoire

Hacer la Historia/P. Le Goff, P. Nora.-v.2.

Hacer la historia

In Space a group of Frances leading historians and cultural commentators call attention to the meaning of space for the French and the firm connection between the nations history and its geography.

Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 2: Space

Rethinking France

Jacques Le Goff

This book presents a selection of ten significant contributions of essays to French historiography.

Essays in Historical Methodology

Constructing the Past

Lawrence D. Kritzman

How do human societies leave their mark on the world so they are not forgotten? This is a collection of work by leading French intellectuals exploring the statutes, cathedrals, palaces, rituals, legends and events of history that form the architecture of the French collective consciousness.

Realms of Memory: Conflicts and divisions

The third and final volume in Pierre Nora's award-winning (for Volume I) REALMS OF MEMORY, which includes groundbreaking discussions of France's past, powerfully demonstrates how a nation can both recover and rediscover its identity through remembrance, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how meanings attached to an event can be as significant as the event itself. 146 illustrations.

The Construction of the French Past

Realms of Memory

Les Lieux de memoire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement" (The New Republic) and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their own past" (The Los Angeles Times). Written during a time when French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series consists of essays by prominent historians and cultural commentators which take, as their points of departure, a lieu de memoire: a site of memory used to order, concentrate, and secure notions of France's past. The first volume in the Chicago translation, Rethinking France, brings together works addressing the omnipresent role of the state in French life. As in the other volumes, the lieux de memoire serve as entries into the French past, whether they are actual sites, political traditions, rituals, or even national pastimes and textbooks. Volume I: The State offers a sophisticated and engaging view of the French and their past through widely diverse essays on, for example, the château of Versailles and the French history of absolutism; the Code civil and its ordering of French life; memoirs written by French statesmen; and Charlemagne and his place in French history. Nora's authors constitute a who's who of French academia, yet they wear their erudition lightly. Taken as a whole, this extraordinary series documents how the French have come to see themselves and why. Contributors: Alain Guery, Maurice Agulhon, Bernard Guenee, Daniel Nordman. Robert Morrissey, Alain Boureau, Anne-Marie Lecoq, Helene Himelfarb, Jean Carbonnier, Herve Le Bras, Pierre Nora.--Publisher description.

Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

"Après avoir édité quelque sept cents livres, je me suis résolu à m'éditer moi-même. Cet ouvrage-ci mêle autobiographie intellectuelle et portrait d'époque à travers les interventions, polémiques et prises de position que j'ai été amené à provoquer ou à soutenir depuis cinquante ans. C'est au croisement de mon activité d'éditeur d'une intelligentsia encore au sommet de son rayonnement mondial et d'historien de la France contemporaine et de sa mémoire nationale que je me suis retrouvé historien public. Depuis Archives, cette collection de poche qui mettait les bibliothèques dans la rue et les archives dans la poche, jusqu'à Liberté pour l'histoire, qui défend l'indépendance du travail de l'esprit, en passant par la revue Le Débat et Les Lieux de mémoire, qui réconcilient l'histoire de pointe avec la mémoire collective, une même volonté se dégage de tant d'engagements sans rapport apparent : mettre l'histoire au cœur de la culture et de l'identité françaises." Pierre Nora.

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