Daniel Roche (historian)
Daniel Roche ( born July 26, 1935 in Paris ) is a French cultural historian who deals with the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It belongs to the Annales school.
Life and work
Roche went to school in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne with the conclusion of 1958. Afterwards, he was a school teacher in Chalons- sur -Marne and in 1962 assistant at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud, while at the CNRS. From 1973 he was at the University of Paris VII (from 1974 as Maître de conférence ) and from 1978 professor at the Sorbonne ( University of Paris I). 1985 to 1989 he was professor at the European Institute in Florence, Directeur d' etudes since 1989 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ) and since 1990 director of the Institut d' Histoire Moderne et contemporaine. From 1998 to 2005 he was a professor at the College de France.
He published in his thesis of 1978, a study of academies in the province during the Enlightenment, 1981 on daily life in Paris, 1989 on clothes and 1993 an overall view of the French Enlightenment.
In 1992 he was awarded the Grand Prix National d' Histoire and in the same year Officier des Arts et Lettres. He was a Knight of the Ordre du Mérite in 1996 and 2001 he received the Grand Prix d' Histoire de la ville de Paris and the Prix Pegase. Roche has two honorary doctorates (Geneva, Verona).
He is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and the Academia Europaea (1989).
Writings
- Le Siècle des Lumières en province. Academies et académiciens Provinciaux, 1689-1789, 2 volumes, Paris / The Hague: Mouton 1978 1989
- Le Peuple de Paris: Essai sur la culture populaire au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Aubier 1981, Fayard, 1998.
- Journal de ma vie. Édition critique du journal de Jacques -Louis Ménétra, compagnon vitrier au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Montalba 1982.
- Pierre Goubert Les Français et l' Ancien Régime. I - La Société et l' État. II - Culture and Society, 2 volumes, Paris: A. Colin, 1984 1993.
- Les Républicains des Lettres, gens de culture et Lumières au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, A. Fayard 1988.
- La culture of apparences. Essai sur l' Histoire du vêtement aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris: A. Fayard 1989
- La France des Lumières, Paris: A. Fayard 1993
- Histoire des choses banal. Naissance de la Société de consommation, XVIIIe - XIXe siècle, Paris: A. Fayard 1997.
- Les Écuries royales ( XVIe - XVIIIe siècles ), Paris: Association pour l' Académie d'art équestre de Versailles in 1998.
- Cars, chevaux, Attelages you XVIe au XIXe siècle, Paris: Association pour l' Académie d'art équestre 2001.
- Humeurs vagabondes, De la circulation des hommes et des voyages de l' utilité, Paris: A. Fayard, 2003.