Jean-Pierre Rioux (15 February 1939 – 6 December 2024) was a French historian. A member of the

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, he was director of

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at the

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from 1980 to 1991. Rioux was a recipient of the

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(2000) and the

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(2011). Rioux died on 6 December 2024, at the age of 85.

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