Pierre Goubert (; 25 January 1915 – 16 January 2012) was a French historian. A member of the
Annales School
The ''Annales'' school () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal '' Annales. Histoire, S ...
, he is considered one of the founders of historical demography and modern rural history. He was a noted specialist on the 17th century, especially of the Ancien Régime societies and mentalities.
Works
*''Beauvais et le Beauvaisis de 1600 à 1730 : contribution à l'histoire sociale de la France du XVIIe siècle'' (1958)
*''Familles marchandes sous l'ancien régime : les Danse et les Motte, de Beauvais'' (1959)
*''1789, les Francais ont la parole : cahiers de doleances des Etats generaux'' (1964) with Michel Denis
*''Louis XIV et vingt millions de Français'' (1966) in English Louis XIV and twenty
million
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Frenchmen (1970)
*''Cent mille provinciaux au XVIIe siècle'' (1968)
*''Louis XIV: le roi, le royaume: dossier'' (1968)
*''L'ancien régime 1. La société'' (1969) in English The ancien régime. French society, 1600-1750 (1973)
*''L'avènement du Roi-Soleil'' (1971)
*''L'ancien régime 2: Les pouvoirs'' (1973)
*''Clio parmi les hommes'' (1976)
*''La vie quotidienne des paysans français au XVIIe siècle'' (1982) in English The French peasantry in the seventeenth century (1986)
*''Initiation à l'histoire de la France'' (1984) in English The course of French history (1988)
*''Les Français et l'Ancien Régime. I - La Société et l'État'' (1984)
*''Mazarin'' (1990)
*''Un parcours d'historien : souvenirs, 1915-1995'' (1996)
*''Le siècle de Louis XIV: études'' (1996)
Further reading
* Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette. "Pierre Goubert (1915-2012). A take-off from Beauvais to Global History." ''Romanian Journal of Population Studies'' 7.1 (2013): 75+.
* Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette. "A Personal Account of the History of Historical Demography in Europe at the End of the Glorious Thirty (1967-1975)." ''Essays in Economic & Business History'' 35.1 (2017): 175-205.
*La France d'Ancien Régime : études réunies en l'honneur de Pierre Goubert (1984)
2010 biography on Pierre Goubert
References
External links
* http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/goubert-maitre-et-eleve_612750.html
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1915 births
2012 deaths
People from Saumur
20th-century French historians
French military personnel of World War II
French male non-fiction writers