Patrice Gueniffey
Patrice Gueniffey (born March 20, 1955 ) is a French historian. He was the head of studies at EHESS .
Gueniffey obtained his doctorate in 1989 under François Furet and became director of studies at the Center de recherches politiques Raymond Aron , which he directed from 2006 to 2008. He is considered an excellent expert on French revolutionary and empirical history and in 2013 wrote the first volume of an extremely detailed biography of Napoleon I with a few new accents (on over 1000 pages). Gueniffey co-edited a new edition of Napoleon's correspondence. The edition project gave international Napoleon research new impetus.
Gueniffey received the Grand Prix Gobert for his biography in 2014 .
Fonts
- Le nombre et la raison. La Révolution française et les élections , Paris 1993 ISBN 2-7132-1007-0
- La politique de la Terreur. Essai sur la violence révolutionnaire , 1789–1794, Fayard 2000, ISBN 2-213-60575-0
- Le Dix-huit brumaire (November 9, 1799). L'épilogue de la Révolution française , Paris, Gallimard 2008 ISBN 9782072113970
- Histoire de la Révolution et de l'Empire , Paris 2013 ISBN 978-2262043681
- Napoléon et de Gaulle. Deux héros français , Paris 2017 ISBN 9782262064860
- with François-Guillaume Lorrain : Les grandes décisions de l'histoire de France , Perrin 2018 ISBN 978-2262076306
- Bonaparte: 1769–1802 , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2017 ISBN 978-3-518425978 (French 2013)
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| SURNAME | Gueniffey, Patrice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1955 |