Jean-Pierre Azéma
Encyclopedia
Early life
Azéma is the son of the RéunionRéunion
Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
ese poet Jean-Henri Azéma
Jean-Henri Azéma
Jean-Henri Azéma, called Jean Azéma was a French poet of Réunionnais origin. Born in Saint-Denis, he died in Buenos Aires, where he had fled after collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. His son was the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma...
. Jean-Henri was a collaborator with the black-shirted Milice
Milice
The Milice française , generally called simply Milice, was a paramilitary force created on January 30, 1943 by the Vichy Regime, with German aid, to help fight the French Resistance. The Milice's formal leader was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, though its chief of operations, and actual leader, was...
during the occupation of France, and lived in exile in South America after the war.
Career
He is a member of the scientific counsel for the Institut François Mitterrand, an organisation founded by François MitterrandFrançois Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
with the goal of "contributing to the propagation of knowledge on the political and social history of modern France". He supported Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...
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Azéma is the author of several prominent historical works, making him somewhat an authority amongst France's historians.
A specialist of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, and more specifically of the Vichy Regime
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
and the French Resistance
French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
, Jean-Pierre Azéma is a university lecturer and teaches history at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
The Institut d'études politiques de Paris , simply referred to as Sciences Po , is a public research and higher education institution in Paris, France, specialised in the social sciences. It has the status of grand établissement, which allows its admissions process to be highly selective...
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He was also one of the historians called as witness for the trial of Maurice Papon, (alongside Marc-Olivier Baruch, Robert O. Paxton and Philippe Burrin). He is also one of the authors of the film L’Œil de Vichy (The eye of Vichy)
The Eye of Vichy
The Eye of Vichy is a 1993 film directed by Claude Chabrol. The documentary is about propaganda produced by Nazi-occupied France during World War II from 1940 to 1944. The film documents the pro-Nazi sentiments of Philippe Pétain's Vichy regime and its efforts to spread propaganda against both the...
by Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
. He attended the Conférence organiséd on the 60th anniversary of the death of Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance primarily due to his role in unifying the French resistance under de Gaulle and his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.-Before the war:Moulin was...
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He is the father of Vichy historian, Arianne Azéma.
Select works
- 6 juin 44, 2004 (with Robert O. Paxton, Philippe Burrin)
- Jean Moulin : le politique, le rebelle, le résistant, 2003
- Jean Cavaillès résistant ou La pensée en actes, 2002 (written under his direction)
- De Münich à la Libération: 1938-1944, Cambridge University Press, 1990, new edition., 2002
- Vichy : 1940-1944, 2000 (with Olivier Wieviorka)
- 1938-1948 : les années de tourmente : de Munich à Prague : dictionnaire critique, 1995 (with François Bédarida)
- Histoire de l'extrême droite en France, 1994 (under the direction of Michel WinockMichel WinockMichel Winock is a French historian, specializing in the French Republic, intellectual movements, anti-Semitism, nationalism and the far right movements of France. He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and member of L'Histoire...
) Seuil, ISBN 9782020188968 - Jean Moulin et la Résistance en 1943, Jean-Pierre Azéma (ed), Institut d'histoire du temps présent, 1994
- Les libérations de la France, 1993 (with Olivier Wieviorka)
- La France des années noires, 1993 (with François Bédarida)
- Le régime de Vichy et les Français, 1992 (with François Bédarida)
- La IIIe République : 1870-1940, (with Michel WinockMichel WinockMichel Winock is a French historian, specializing in the French Republic, intellectual movements, anti-Semitism, nationalism and the far right movements of France. He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and member of L'Histoire...
) Calmann-Lévy, 1970, new edition, 1991 - 1940, l'année terrible, Seuil, 1990, ISBN 9782020121316
- Paris under the occupation, Gilles Perrault, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Deutsch, 1989, ISBN 9780233985114
- Les communistes français de Munich à Châteaubriant : 1938-1941, 1987 (with Antoine Prost and Jean-Pierre Rioux)
- Histoire générale politique et sociale : la France des années sombres, les années 40, 1987
- La collaboration : 1940-1944, 1975
- Les Communards, 1964 (with Michel WinockMichel WinockMichel Winock is a French historian, specializing in the French Republic, intellectual movements, anti-Semitism, nationalism and the far right movements of France. He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and member of L'Histoire...
) Éditions du seuil, 1970