Daniel Roche
Daniel Roche (born July 26, 1935 in Paris ) is a French cultural historian who deals with the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution . He belongs to the Annales School .
Live and act
Roche went to school in Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne in 1958. After that he was a school teacher in Châlons-sur-Marne and from 1962 assistant at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud and at the same time at the CNRS . From 1973 he was at the University of Paris VII (from 1974 as Maître de conférence) and from 1978 professor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris I). From 1985 to 1989 he was a professor at the Institut Européen in Florence, since 1989 Directeur d´etudes at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and since 1990 Director of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine. From 1998 to 2005 he was a professor at the Collège de France .
In his dissertation from 1978 he published a study of academies in the provincial era in the age of the Enlightenment, 1981 on everyday life in Paris, 1989 on clothing and in 1993 an overview of the French Enlightenment.
In 1992 Roche received the Grand Prix National d'Histoire and in the same year became Officier des Arts et Lettres. In 1996 he became a Knight of the Ordre du Mérite and in 2001 he received the Grand Prix d'Histoire de la ville de Paris and the Prix Pégase. Roche has two honorary doctorates (Geneva, Verona). For 2016 he was awarded the Grand Prix Gobert for Histoire de la culture équestre, XVIe - XIXe siècle .
Roche is a member of the British Academy , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), the Academia Europaea (1989) and the American Philosophical Society (2009).
Fonts
- Le Siècle des Lumières en province. Académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1689–1789 , 2 volumes, Paris / Den Haag: Mouton 1978, 1989
- Le Peuple de Paris: Essai sur la culture populaire au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Aubier 1981, Fayard 1998.
- Journal de ma vie. Édition critique du journal de Jacques-Louis Ménétra, compagnon vitrier au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Montalba 1982.
- with Pierre Goubert Les Français et l'Ancien Régime. I - La Société et l'État. II - Culture et Société , 2 volumes, Paris: A. Colin 1984, 1993.
- Les Républicains des Lettres, gens de culture et Lumières au XVIIIe siècle , Paris, A. Fayard 1988.
- La culture des apparences. Essai sur l'Histoire du vêtement aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , Paris: A. Fayard 1989
- La France des Lumières , Paris: A. Fayard 1993
- Histoire des choses banales. Naissance de la Société de consommation, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle , Paris: A. Fayard 1997.
- Les Écuries royales (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles) , Paris: Association pour l'Académie d'art équestre de Versailles 1998.
- Voitures, chevaux, attelages du XVIe au XIXe siècle, Paris: Association pour l'Académie d'art équestre 2001.
- Humeurs vagabondes, De la circulation des hommes et de l'utilité des voyages, Paris: A. Fayard 2003.
- La Culture équestre de l'Occident, XVIe - XIXe siècle, L'ombre du cheval: Tome 1, Le cheval moteur, Essai sur l'utilité équestre , Fayard 2008
- Histoire de la culture équestre, XVIe - XIXe siècle, L'ombre du cheval: Tome 2, La gloire et la puissance , Fayard, 2011
Web links
- Website at the College de France
- Literature by and about Daniel Roche in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roche, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |