Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (17 November 1917,

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– 12 September 1994,

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) was a French

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and professor. He had initially considered an army career or study of

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, but his poor skills in

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and drawing led him to turn to historical study. Pierre Renouvin's course fascinated him, and he became his assistant in 1945. He went on to teach at

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from 1950 to 1957 and returned to the Sorbonne afterward. Duroselle's writings include ''La Decadence'' (1980), ''L'Abime'' (1985), and others. Duroselle was elected to the

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in 1975. He was noted for his study of international relations and won a 1982 Balzan Prize for Social Sciences for his work. Among his students was Élisabeth Du Réau, biographer of

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. He supervised her 1987, eight-volume thesis on Daladier, published in condensed form in 1993 as ''Édouard Daladier, 1884-1970''.Reviews of ''Édouard Daladier, 1884-1970'': Serge Berstein (1994), ''Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine'', ; Jean-Marie d'Hoop (1993), ''Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains'', ; Jocelyne George (1995), ''Revue Historique'', ; Stefan Martens (1995), ''Historische Zeitschrift'', ; Kenneth Mouré (1994), ''French Politics and Society'', ; Robert W. Mühle (1994), ''Francia'', ; Donald Cameron Watt (1995), ''The Journal of Modern History'', ; Robert J. Young (1994), ''The American Historical Review'', ,

Selected bibliography

* Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste. ''Itinéraires, idées, hommes et nations d'Occident, XIXe- xxe siècle'' (Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1991), 491 p. * ''L'invasion : les migrations humaines: chance ou fatalité?'' (Paris, Plon, 1992) * ''La France de la Belle Époque'' (Paris, Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1992), 377 p. * ''La Grande Guerre des Français, 1914-1918: l'incompréhensible'' (Paris, Perrin, 1994) * ''Histoire diplomatique de 1919 à nos jours'' (1985). * ''La décadence, 1932-1939'' (Impr. nationale, 1979)

In English translation

* Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste. ''France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932–1939'' (Enigma Books, 2004); translation of his highly influential ''La décadence, 1932-1939'' (1979) * ''Europe: A History of Its Peoples'' Viking, 1990. * ''France and the United States from the Beginnings to the Present Day'' (University of Chicago Press, 1978) * "The Spirit of Locarno: Illusions of Pactomania." ''Foreign Affairs'' 50.4 (1972). pp. 752–76
in JSTOR
* ''From Wilson to Roosevelt: Foreign policy of the United States, 1913-1945'' (1968) * Renouvin, Pierre, and Jean Baptiste Duroselle. ''Introduction to the history of international relations'' (New York, Praeger, 1967) * ''L'Europe de 1815 à nos jours: vie politique et relations internationales'' (Presses universitaires de France, 1964) * "Changes in French Foreign policy since 1945." in Stanley Hoffmann, ed., ''In Search of France'' (Harvard University Press, 1963) pp: 331–400.

References

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