René Rémond

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

Life

After schooling the Paris schools Lycée Carnot, Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis -le- Grand in 1939 he was first a soldier in World War II (for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre ). In the 1930s he was active in the Jeunesse coed chrétienne ( JEC ), whose Secretary General, he was in 1943. In 1942, he then studied at the École Normale Supérieure, where he was taken in 1939, but initially made ​​military service, and was assistant to Pierre Renouvin. His doctoral thesis in 1952 at Charles -Henri Pouthas dealt with the perception of the United States in France from 1815 to 1852. He was then assistant at the Sorbonne, and from 1956 director of research 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 professor of French history in the 20th century on the faculty of the University of Paris at Nanterre newly created. In the 1968 riots he took a mediating position. The peak in May 1968, he dodged to Rome. Then he participated in university reforms and was from 1971 to 1976 president of the newly founded University of Nanterre.

From Remond subdivision right and conservative political trends in France comes across in legitimists, Orleanist and Bonapartist. Among the latter he was one among others the Boulangisten and the Gaullists, since they rely on Popularismus and authoritarian leadership. The legitimists he counted the royalists in the 19th century who opposed the Republic and later, for example, the Action Française and the movement of Le Pen to Orleanist who were in the 19th century for economic liberalism and were borne by the middle class ( bourgeoisie ), he is one of today's conservative parties of the center in France. He took this one in his major work, La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours 1954.

He was a founding member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Since 1998 he was a member of the Académie française. He was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, was awarded 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 elitist political science Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.

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

Publications

Historical and political work

• La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours. Continuité diversité et d'une politique tradition. Aubier - Montaigne, Paris, 1954 ( reprint 1963 ( La Droite en France de la première à la Ve République restoration ), 1968 and 1982 (Les Droites en France ) )
• Edited: Forces religieuses et politiques dans la France depuis attitudes 1945 Armand Colin, Paris 1965.
• Edited: 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
• Edited by: 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 de 1938-1939. Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1978
• Edited: Quarante ans de ministériels cabinets. Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris 1982
• Le retour de de Gaulle. Complexe, Paris 1983
• Edited: Pour une histoire politique. Le Seuil, Paris 1983
• Collaboration of Jean -François Sirinelli: Notre siècle ( 1918-1988 ). Fayard, Paris 1988
• La République sovereign. Fayard, 2002
• Les droites aujourd'hui. Louis Audibert, Paris 2005

Work on the religious history of France

• Lamennais et la démocratie. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1948
• Les Catholiques, le Communisme et les Crises ( 1929-1939 ). Armand Colin, Paris 1960
• Les deux ecclésiastiques congrès de Reims et Bourges ( 1896-1900 ). Sirey, Paris 1964
• L' anticléricalisme en France de 1815 à nos jours. Fayard, Paris 1976
• Histoire religieuse de la France: co- editor. . 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 you catholicisme en France dans les années trente. Le Seuil, Paris 1996
• Religion and Society in Europe (French et société en Europe Orig religion aux XXe siècles XIXe et Essai sur la secularisation Le Seuil, Paris, 1996.. ), Munich: Beck, 2000, ISBN 3406453090
• Les grandes inventions you christianisme. Bayard, Paris 1999
• Le christianisme en accusation. Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2000
• Le nouvel anti- christianisme. Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2005

Work on 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 on the current time

• Vivre notre histoire ( Introduction by Aimé Savard ). Le Centurion, Paris 1976
• Author Community: Âge et politique. Economica, Paris 1991
• Valeurs 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 of François Azouvi: You 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 de l' Histoire se mêle. Floor, Paris 2006

Personal texts

• La Règle et le consentement. Gouverner une société. Fayard, Paris 1979
• Edited by Pierre Nora: Contribution aux Essais d' ego- histoire. Gallimard, Paris 1987
• Community Author: Paul Touvier et l' Église. Fayard, Paris, 1992 ( Enquête sur les demandée à Remond protections dont le milicien Paul Touvier a benefice de l' Église catholique au his de France)
• Discours de réception à l' Académie française. Fayard, Paris 2000