Madeleine Rebérioux

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Madeleine Rebérioux (born September 8, 1920 in Chambéry as Madeleine Armoudruz , † February 7, 2005 in Paris ) was a French historian.

She won first prize in history at the national competitions for the Grandes écoles in 1937 and studied at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles . During the Second World War, her brother was deported as a member of the Resistance . She partly studied in Clermont-Ferrand , where her alma mater was exiled. She was a student of Ernest Labrousse . After the war she joined the Communist Party and was on the city council of Mulhouse . She was also a high school teacher, from 1961 assistant at the Sorbonne and from 1969 professor at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes). From 1978 she also taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales .

She was a specialist in the Third Republic and the labor movement and wrote a biography of Jean Jaurès , on which she also received her doctorate. From 1971 to 1982 she edited the magazine Mouvement Sociale .

In the 1950s and 1960s she was active as a civil rights activist against the Algerian War and in 1960 she signed the 121st manifesto . She was active against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and was expelled from the French Communist Party in 1969 for writing for the left-wing extremist magazine Politique aujourd'hui .

From 1991 to 1995 she was president of the Ligue des droits de l'homme . Her son Vincent Rebérioux was General Secretary there.

She was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Fonts

  • Introduction and remarks on Jean Jaurès : contre la guerre et la politique coloniale (= Textes choisis. Vol. 1). Éditions Sociales, 1959.
  • with Georges Haupt La Deuxième Internationale et l'Orient. Editions Cujas, 1967.
  • Jaurès et la Classe ouvrière. Maspero, 1975.
  • La République radicale? 1898-1914. Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine, Volume 11, Éditions du Seuil, 1975.
  • Les Ouvriers du livre et leur Fédération. Temps Actuel, 1981.
  • Ils ont pensé les droits de l'homme. EDI-Ligue des droits de l'homme, 1989.
  • Jaurès: la parole et l'acte. Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 220), Gallimard, 1994.
  • A course dedicated to France contemporaine. Belin, 1999 (collection of articles).
  • Vive la République! Histoire, droits et combats de 1789 à la guerre d'Algérie. Démopolis, 2009 (collection of articles).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Madeleine Rebérioux l'autre tête du Musée d'Orsay  ", Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Le Quotidien de Paris , 10-08-1981.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rebérioux, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chambery
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2005
Place of death Paris