Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of

René Rémond René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist. Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and a ...

, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history. Ory is a professor at the Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is president of the Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) and regent of the

Collège de 'Pataphysique Pataphysics (french: 'pataphysique) is a "philosophy" of science invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) intended to be a parody of science. Difficult to be simply defined or pinned down, it has been described as the "science of imag ...

. Involved in politics, he was a municipal councillor, formerly an ally to the mayor

Georges Lemoine Clément Georges Lemoine (16 January 1841 in Tonnerre – 13 November 1922 in Paris) was a French chemist and hydrologist. He was the father of geologist Paul Lemoine (1878–1940). He studied at the École Polytechnique and the École des po ...

, and head of the

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of Chartres. Ory was elected to the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

on 4 March 2021.

Works

*''Les Collaborateurs 1940–1945'', Le Seuil, 1976, 331 p. nouv. éd., coll. « Points »-histoire 1980 *''La France allemande, Gallimard, "archives", 1977 * Nizan – Destin d'un révolté, 1980 *''Le Petit Nazi illustré. Vie et mort du "Téméraire" (1943–1944)'', Paris, éditions Albatros, collections Histoires/Imaginaires, 1979, 122 p. rééd. revue et augmentée, Paris, Nautilus, 2002. Preface by

Léon Poliakov Léon Poliakov (russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism and wrote ''The Aryan Myth''. Born into a Russian Jewi ...

– on a Nazi propaganda review for children *''L'Anarchisme de droite ou du mépris considéré comme une morale, le tout assorti de réflexions plus générales'', Grasset,

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

, 1985, 288p. – an openly polemical work "dedicated to the anarchists of the left" *''Une nation pour mémoire. 1889, 1939, 1989 trois jubilés révolutionnaires'', Paris, PFNSP, 1992, 282p. *Direction, préface et conclusions de : ''La Censure en France à l'ère démocratique (1848–...), Complexe'', coll. « Histoire culturelle », 1997, 358 p. *''L'Europe ? L'Europe...'' (anthologie commentée), Omnibus, 1998, 900 p. *''Le Discours gastronomique français des origines à nos jours'', Gallimard, collection "Archives", 1998, 203 p. *''Les Intellectuels en France de l'Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours'', in collaboration with Jean-François Sirinelli, réédition Armand Colin, 1999, 264 p. *''Les Intellectuels en France, de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours'', republished and expanded, Paris, Armand Colin, 2002. *''Du fascisme'', Paris, Perrin, 2003, 293 p. *''L'Histoire culturelle'', Paris,

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, 2004, 128 p. *''Goscinny (1926–1977) : La liberté d'en rire'', Paris, Perrin, 2007. * ''L'invention du bronzage – Essai d'une histoire culturelle'' : Complexe (Editions), June 2008, 135 p. *''La culture comme aventure. Treize exercices d'histoire culturelle'', Complexe, 2008

Honours

Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system ...

: 2012Arrêté du 15 décembre 2011
/ref> * Chevaliers of the Ordre national du Méritehttp://ifs.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/29941/OryCV.pdf *

Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

References

External links

Personal page
at Pantheon-Sorbonne Université Paris 1

Online articles

"L'Histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine : question et questionnement"
''Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire'', vol. 16 (1987), pp 67–82

nonfiction.fr, 2008, critique by Christophe Prochasson
"Lectures de plage : à propos de deux histoires du bronzage"
nonfiction.fr, 2008, critique by Antoine Roullet

Online conference

Américanisation:le mot,la chose,le spectre
Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal, 22 February 2007.(video available) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ory, Pascal Living people 1948 births People from Fougères University of Paris faculty 20th-century French historians Historians of anarchism Comics critics Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Members of the Académie Française Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French male non-fiction writers 21st-century French historians