Arlette Jouanna
Arlette Jouanna (born Arlette Galinat, 1936) is a French historian and academic. She is professor emerita at l’Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III).[1] She is a member of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales (CRISES). She specialises in the political and social history of sixteenth-century France, especially the history of the nobility and the French Wars of Religion.
Biography
Jouanna was a pupil at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres)[2]. She then completed a History degree in 1968 at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) where she was taught by Roland Mousnier. She was awarded her PhD in 1975 for a thesis entitled 'L'idée de race en France au XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe'. For her entire career she taught at l'Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III).
Awards, honours, prizes
- In 2008 she won the Prix François Guizot for her book La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat (The St Bartholomew's Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State) (Paris, Gallimard, 2007), awarded by the Conseil général du Calvados.[3]
- In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand for her book Le Pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté (Absolute Power: the Birth of the Royal Political Imaginary).[4][5]
- In 2014 she was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize, an annual prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association, for her translated book The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State.[6] The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history.
- In 2018 the Prix littéraire Montaigne de Bordeaux awarded her a Special Prize for her biography of Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne (Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2017).[7]
Selected publications
- Le devoir de révolte. La noblesse française et la gestation de l'État moderne: 1559–1661. Fayard, 1989
- La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat. Gallimard, 2007
- Le pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté. Gallimard, 2013
- Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State (trans. Joseph Bergin). Manchester University Press, 2013
- Montaigne. Gallimard, 2017
External links
Review of Jouanna's biography of Montaigne.
Interview with Jouanna about Michel de Montaigne
Interview with Jouanna about the St Bartholomew Day's Massacre
References
- ^ "'Arlette Jouanna', data.bnf.fr".
- ^ Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1960 [1].
- ^ "'The 2008 Guizot Prize', guizot.com".
- ^ "Le Parisien, 5 December 2013".
- ^ "'Le Prix Chateaubriand', patrickdevedjian.fr, 4 December 2013".
- ^ "American Historical Association, J. Russell Major Prize Recipients".
- ^ "PaySud Mag, 20 March 2018".
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