René Rémond

René Rémond (born September 30, 1918 in Lons-le-Saunier , Jura department , † April 14, 2007 in Paris ) was a French historian and political scientist .

Life

After attending the Paris high schools Lycée Carnot , Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis-le-Grand , he first became a soldier in 1939 in World War II (for which he received the Croix de Guerre). In the 1930s he was active in the Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne (JEC), whose general secretary he became in 1943. In 1942 he then studied at the école normal supérieure , where he was accepted as early as 1939, but initially did military service, and became Pierre Renouvin's assistant . His dissertation in 1952 with Charles-Henri Pouthas dealt with the perception of the USA in France from 1815 to 1852 . He was then assistant at the Sorbonne and from 1956 research director at the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP) and Maître de conférences and then professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . In 1964 he became the first French professor of 20th century history in the faculty of the newly created University of Paris-Nanterre . In the 1968 riots he took a mediating point of view. He avoided the climax in May 1968 to Rome. He then took part in university reforms and was President of the University of Paris-Nanterre from 1971 to 1976.

From Rémond comes the division of the right and conservative political currents in France across the board into Legitimists , Orléanists and Bonapartists . To the latter he counted a. the Boulangists and the Gaullists , since they rely on popularism and authoritarian leadership. Among the legitimists he counted the royalists in the 19th century, who rejected the republic and later z. B. Action Française and the movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen . Among the Orléanists who stood for economic liberalism in the 19th century and was supported by the bourgeoisie, he counts today's conservative parties in the center of France. He introduced this in his main work La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours 1954.

He was a founding member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences . The Polish Academy of Sciences , he belonged to an external member.

Since 1998 he was a member of the Académie française ; there Claude Dagens was his successor. Rémond was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, received the Grand Cross of the Ordre National du Mérite, was Commander of the Palmes Académique and Commandeur de Arts et Lettres.

From 1981 to January 2007 he was president of the elite political science foundation Fondation nationale des sciences politiques .

He is the nephew of the Bishop of Nice Paul Rémond , who was honored in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations .

Publications

Historical-political work

• La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours. Continuité et diversité d'une tradition politique . Aubier-Montaigne, Paris 1954 (reprints 1963 ( La Droite en France de la première Restauration à la Ve République ), 1968 and 1982 ( Les Droites en France ))
• Ed .: Forces religieuses et attitudes politiques dans la France depuis 1945 . Armand Colin, Paris 1965
• Ed .: Atlas historique de la France contemporaine . Armand Colin, Paris 1966
• Léon Blum, chef de gouvernement . Armand Colin, Paris 1967
• La vie politique en France (Volume 1: 1789-1848 , Volume 2: 1848-1879 ). Armand Colin, Paris 1964–1969
• Ed .: Le gouvernement de Vichy et la Révolution nationale . Armand Colin, Paris 1972
• Introduction à l'histoire de notre temps (three volumes). Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1974
• Édouard Daladier, chef de gouvernement . Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1977
• La France et les Français en 1938-1939 . Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1978
• Ed .: Quarante ans de cabinets ministériels . Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1982
• Le retour de Gaulle . Complexe, Paris 1983
• Ed .: Pour une histoire politique . Le Seuil, Paris 1983
• Collaboration with Jean-François Sirinelli: Notre siècle (1918–1988) . Fayard, Paris 1988
• La République souveraine . Fayard, 2002
• Les droites aujourd'hui . Louis Audibert, Paris 2005

Works on the religious history of France

• Lamennais et la democratie . Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1948
• Les catholiques, le Communisme et les Crises (1929-1939) . Armand Colin, Paris 1960
• Les deux congrès ecclésiastiques de Reims et Bourges (1896–1900) . Sirey, Paris 1964
• L'anticléricalisme en France de 1815 à nos jours . Fayard, Paris 1976
• Co-editor: Histoire de la France religieuse . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1992
• Le catholicisme français et la Société politique . Éditions de l'Atelier, Paris 1995
• Author community: Le fichier juif . Plon, Paris, 1996
• Les crises du catholicisme en France dans les années trente . Le Seuil, Paris 1996
• Religion and Society in Europe (French. Orig. Religion et société en Europe aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Essai sur la sécularisation . Le Seuil, Paris, 1996), Munich: Beck, 2000, ISBN 3406453090
• Les grandes inventions du christianisme . Bayard, Paris 1999
• Le christianisme en accusation . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2000
• Le nouvel anti-christianisme . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2005

Working across the United States

• Histoire des États-Unis . Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1959
• Les États-Unis devant l'opinion française (1815–1852) (two volumes). Armand Colin, Paris 1962

Thoughts about the current time

• Vivre notre histoire (introduction by Aimé Savard). Le Centurion, Paris 1976
• Author community: Âge et politique . Économica, Paris 1991
• Values ​​et politique . Beauchesne, Paris 1992
• La politique n'est plus ce qu'elle était . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1993
• Une laïcité pour tous . Textuel, Paris 1998
• La politique est-elle intelligible? . Complexe, Paris 1999
• Regard sur le siècle . Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 2000
• Collaboration with François Azouvi: Du mur de Berlin aux tours de New York. Douze années pour changer de siècle . Bayard, 2002
• Une mémoire française , Desclée de Brouwer, 2002
• Quand l'État se mêle de l'Histoire . Stock, Paris 2006

Personal texts

• La Règle et le Consentement. Governors une société . Fayard, Paris 1979
• Edited by Pierre Nora: Contribution aux Essais d'ego-histoire . Gallimard, Paris 1987
• Community of authors: Paul Touvier et l'Église . Fayard, Paris 1992 (Enquête demandée à Rémond sur les protections dont le milicien Paul Touvier a bénéficé au sein de l ' Église catholique de France )
• Discours de reception à l'Académie française . Fayard, Paris 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about René Rémond in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)