Michel Vovelle

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Michel Luc Vovelle (born February 6, 1933 in Gallardon ; † October 6, 2018 ) was a French historian .

The son of a teacher and a teacher, Michel Vovelle was born in the town of Gallardon near Chartres . He attended the Lycée Marceau in Chartres. In 1956 he became assistant at the École normal supérieure de Saint-Cloud . From 1976 to 1984 he was a professor of history at the University of Provence . Then he was Professor of History at the University of Paris I . As the successor to Albert Soboul , he headed the Institut d'Histoire de la Revolution française from 1983 to 1993 . One of his main research interests was the history of the French Revolution . Vovelle was also an important historian of mentality , primarily with work on the historical sociology of death and the history of religion and piety. He was the founder and director of the “Research Center for the Social History of Mentalities and Cultures” in Aix. Peter Schöttler translated Vovelle's book Breve storia della rivoluzione francese (Rome 1979) into German. Vovelle's essay on the Marseillaise in Pierre Nora's “ Places of Memory in France” was also translated into German. Rolf Reichardt wrote in 1985 that Vovelle should be considered “the leading international mentality historian ” . Vovelle saw himself as an unorthodox Marxist who, contrary to the prevailing tendency in Marxist historiography, allowed individual actors to emerge more strongly than collectives. He was a member of the Parti communiste français and supported the socialist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the 2012 presidential election .

Publications

  • Mourir autrefois. Attitudes collectives devant la mort aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris 1974.
  • Ville et campagne au XVIIIe siècle. Chartres et la Beauce, Paris 1980.
  • De la cave au grenier. Un itinéraire en Provence au XVIIIe siècle. De l'histoire sociale à l'histoire des mentalités, Québec 1980.
  • La mort et l'Occident de 1300 à nos jours, Paris 1983.
  • 1793, la révolution contre l'Église: de la raison à l'être suprême, Bruxelles 1988.
  • La Révolution française 1789–1799, Paris 1992.
  • Combats pour la Révolution française, Paris 1993.
  • Les âmes du purgatoire ou le travail du deuil, Paris 1996.
  • Les jacobins. De Robespierre à Chevènement , Paris 1999.
  • 1789. L'héritage et la mémoire, Toulouse 2007.
  • Les sans-culottes marseillais. Le mouvement sectionnaire du jacobinisme au fédéralisme (1791–1793), Aix-en-Provence 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Reichardt, Introduction, in: Michel Vovelle, The French Revolution. Social movement and upheaval in mentalities. Frankfurt am Main 1985. p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Vovelle, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vovelle, Michel Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallardon
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2018