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Pierre Nora

French historian and publisher

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born: 1931
died: 2025
age at death: 93
known for: historian, university teacher, publisher

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who pierre nora is

Pierre Charles Nora was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the national memory of the French, writing a new history.

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