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Pierre Nora

1931 - 2025

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Pierre Charles Nora (French: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl(ə) nɔʁa]; 17 November 1931 – 2 June 2025) was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the national memory of the French, writing a new history (nouvelle histoire). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Pierre Nora is the 118th most popular historian (up from 145th in 2024), the 1,824th most popular biography from France (up from 2,195th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Pierre Nora ranks 118 out of 561. Before him are W. Montgomery Watt, Árni Magnússon, Reinhart Koselleck, Peter Burke, Leo the Deacon, and Michael Glykas. After him are Shoqan Walikhanov, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Hayden White, Guibert of Nogent, and Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Pierre Nora ranks 100. Before him are Mike Nichols, Charles Taylor, Mauricio Kagel, Toshiki Kaifu, Lamberto Dini, and E. C. George Sudarshan. After him are Stig Anderson, Luís Cabral, Tomi Ungerer, Caroline Graham, Nikolai Chernykh, and Guido de Marco. Among people deceased in 2025, Pierre Nora ranks 110. Before him are Maria Riva, Lea Massari, Kit Bond, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mauricio Funes, and James Harrison. After him are Trần Đức Lương, Robert Hübner, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Robert Wilson, Thanin Kraivichien, and Ted Kotcheff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Nora ranks 1,824 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Levegh (1905), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Marie Trintignant (1962), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), and Pierre Auguste Cot (1837). After him are Nicolas Anelka (1979), Pierre Charron (1541), Henri Pitot (1695), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Remy de Gourmont (1858), and Marisa Berenson (1947).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Pierre Nora ranks 16. Before him are Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), Georges Duby (1919), Emmanuel Todd (1951), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), and René Grousset (1885). After him are Guibert of Nogent (1055), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), Adémar de Chabannes (989), and François Furet (1927).

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