Death of historian Pierre Nora, a major agitator in the human sciences
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Portrait The creator of "Lieux de mémoire" was also the editor of Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt and Georges Duby, and one of the key players in the "golden age of the human sciences" between the 1970s and 1990s. He died this Monday, June 2, at the age of 93.
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When one entered Pierre Nora's large office at Gallimard in the mid-2010s, one had the impression of approaching a kind of sphinx from another time. The man, with azure eyes and canonical age, a member of the Académie Française and companion of Anne Sinclair, repeated that he had published more than a thousand books, and seemed to be one of those peaceful and gently pontificating monuments shaped by honors.
It was while reading "Une étrange obstination" (Gallimard, 2022), a very successful autobiographical account of his years as a publisher, that we really discovered his elegance, his humor, his honesty and even – this was somewhat unexpected – his modesty, which he aptly called his " inconfidence ".
Born on November 17, 1931, in Paris, Pierre Nora died this Monday, June 2, his family announced to AFP, at the age of 93. And besides being a historian, he was first and foremost an i…
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