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François Furet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa fyʁɛ]; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago.
Name: François Furet. Lived: 1927-1997. Nationality: French. Profession (s): Historian, academic. Books: Interpreting the French Revolution (1981), The French Revolution (1996) Perspective: Liberal-revisionist. For much of the 20th century, the historiography of the French Revolution was dominated by Marxist perspectives.
François Furet, né le 27 mars 1927 à Paris 7 e et mort le 12 juillet 1997 à Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), est un historien français, spécialiste de la Révolution française et de son héritage idéologique.
Jul 16, 1997 · Francois Furet, a prominent historian who challenged the popular Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution and reshaped French thinking about subsequent events, died on Saturday in a ...
Mar 1, 2012 · François Furet has for many years indulged himself in a re-reading of the French Revolution, from which he draws a ‘revisionist’ image; he has thus emphasized a narrowly political vision, one which reduces the event at the expense of its social, economic and cultural dimensions.
- Christophe Prochasson
- 2012
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Translated by Deborah Furet. François Furet was acknowledged as the twentieth century’s preeminent historian of the French Revolution. But years before his death, he turned his attention to the consequences and aftermath of another critical revolution—the Communist revolution.
With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, François Furet and Mona Ozouf invite the reader to recross the first two centuries of French democracy in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the world in which we live today.
