Mona Ozouf
Mona Ozouf (born February 24, 1931 in Plourivo , Département Côtes-d'Armor or Lannilis , Département Finistère , both in Brittany ) is a French historian and writer .
Career
Mona Ozouf comes from a Breton family: her parents are Yann Sohier and Anne Le Den. In Paris, Ozouf graduated from the École normal supérieure . After the Second World War until the Hungarian uprising in 1956, she was a member of the French Communist Party .
Her husband Jacques Ozouf (married 1955) brokered the cooperation with the historians Denis Richet , Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and François Furet . She has been writing for the weekly newspaper Nouvel Observateur since 1964 . Mona Ozouf works as a historian at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Her main area of research is the French Revolution .
Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
- Prix Montaigne 2002 .
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 2007
Publications (selection)
- L'École, l'Église et la République 1871-1914 . Paris, Armand Colin, 1962.
- La Fête révolutionnaire, 1789-1799 . Paris, Gallimard, 1976.
- Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française . (With François Furet), Paris, Flammarion, 1988.
- Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française. Institutions et créations . (With François Furet), Paris, Flammarion, 1993.
- Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française. Evénements . (With François Furet), Paris, Flammarion, 1993.
- Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française. Acteurs . (With François Furet), Paris, Flammarion, 1993.
- Les Mots des femmes. Essai sur la singularité française . Paris, Fayard, 1995.
- The pantheon . Liberty, equality, fraternity. Two French places of memory. Translated from the French by Hans Hill. Wagenbach, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-8031-5156-2
- La Muse démocratique, Henry James ou les pouvoirs du roman . Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1998.
- Varennes. La mort de la royauté, June 21, 1791 . Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
- Composition française. Retour sur une enfance bretonne . Paris, Gallimard, 2009.
literature
- Antoine Baecque / Patrick Deville (eds.): Mona Ozouf. Portrait d'une historienne , Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 2019, ISBN 978-2-08-147035-4 .
Web links
- Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the revolution (June 1, 2008)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ozouf, Mona |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brittany |