Laurent Joly (born 26 July 1976) is a French historian and a specialist of

Vichy France Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...

and

antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

Life and career

Born in 1976, Joly earned a doctorate in history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, following a thesis on "

Vichy Vichy (, ; ; oc, Vichèi, link=no, ) is a city in the Allier Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is a Spa town, spa and resort town and in World ...

and the

Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs The Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs (french: Commissariat général aux questions juives; C.G.Q.J.) was a special administration established in March 1941 by the collaborationist Vichy government of France in order to introduce anti-Jewis ...

(1941-1944)". He joined the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

in 2006, and was a member of the Research Center for Quantitative History until January 2015. Joly is now a Research Director at the CNRS. He earned the "prize of the Jewish research book" in 2007.

Works

* ''Xavier Vallat (1891-1972) : du nationalisme chrétien à l'antisémitisme d'État''. Grasset, 2001. (). * ''Darquier de Pellepoix et l'antisémitisme français''. Berg international, 2002. (). * ''Vichy dans la « Solution finale » : histoire du Commissariat général aux questions juives (1941-1944)''. Grasset, 2006. () * ''La France antijuive de 1936 : l'agression de Léon Blum à la Chambre des députés''. (with Tal Bruttmann) Éditions des Équateurs, 2006. () * ''L'Antisémitisme de bureau : enquête au cœur de la Préfecture de police de Paris et du Commissariat général aux questions juives (1940-1944)''. Grasset, 2011. () * ''Les collabos : treize portraits d'après les archives des services secrets de Vichy, des RG et de l'Épuration''. Les Échappés, 2011 () * ''Naissance de l'Action française : Maurice Barrès, Charles Maurras et l'extrême droite nationaliste au tournant du XXe siècle''. Grasset, 2015. () * ''Dénoncer les Juifs sous l'Occupation : Paris, 1940-1944''. CNRS Éditions, 2017. () * ''L'État contre les juifs : Vichy, les nazis et la persécution antisémite''. Grasset, 2018. () * ''La falsification de l'Histoire: Eric Zemmour, l'extrême droite, Vichy et les juifs''. Grasset, 2022. ()

References

Living people 1976 births 21st-century French historians Academics and writers on far-right extremism French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists University of Paris alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Historians of Vichy France Historians of France Historians of fascism Historians of the Holocaust Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research {{france-historian-stub