Lucette Valensi (born 1936) is a French historian ''née'' Lucette Chemla in

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Biography

After obtaining her bachelor's degree in history from the Sorbonne in 1958, she became a history and geography agrégée in 1963 then docteur d'État in

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in 1974. She joined the

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for a while, then became involved in the anticolonialism that had moved her from support to the Algerian National Liberation Front to that of the . She began her teaching and research career in Tunisia between 1960 and 1965. After this North African experience, she was successively

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at the

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between 1969 and 1978, then Director of Studies at the

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(Paris), where she directed the Centre de recherches historiques from 1992 to 1996 before creating and directing the from 2000 to 2002. She also remains an associate member of the Centre de recherches historiques. In February 1979, she was one of 34 signatories of the declaration written by

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and

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to dismantle

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's negationist rhetoric. She has a daughter, Jeanne, and two grandsons: Elie Ruderman and Gabriel Ruderman, also known as Edi Rudo, a magician and mime.

Awards

* Chevalier of the

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* Commandeur of the

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* Officier of the Ordre tunisien du Mérite culturel.

Publications

*''Le Maghreb avant la prise d'Alger'', Paris,

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, 1969. *''Fellahs tunisiens: l'économie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siècles'', Paris, Mouton, 1977. *''On the Eve of Colonialism: North Africa Before the French Conquest'', London, Africa publications, 1982 *''The Last Arab Jews. The communities of Djerba, Tunisia'', Harmond Academic Publishers, 1984 ("The last

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"), translated under the title ''Juifs en terre d'Islam. Les communautés de Djerba'', Éditions des Archives contemporaines, 1985, in collaboration with Abraham L. Udovitch. *''Mémoires Juives'' (with Nathan Wachtel), Paris,

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, 1986 *''Fables de la mémoire la glorieuse bataille des trois rois'', Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1992 *''La Fuite en Égypte : Histoires d'Orient & d'Occident'', Paris, Seuil, 2002 * * ''L'Islam, l'islamisme et l'Occident : Genèse d'un affrontement'' (with Gabriel Martinez-Gros), Paris, Seuil, 2004 * ''Venise et la Sublime Porte : La naissance du despote'', Hachette, 2005 * ''Mardochée Naggiar : Enquête sur un inconnu'', Paris,

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, 2008. * ''Ces étrangers familiers'', Paris, Payot, 2012 *''Juifs et musulmans en Algérie'', Paris, Tallandier, 2016

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valensi, Lucette 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians People from Tunis 1936 births Living people Knights of the Legion of Honour Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques