Louis Chevalier

Louis Chevalier (* March 29, 1911 in L' Aiguillon- sur -Mer, Vendée; † 3 August 2001) was a French social historian and local historian of Paris.

Chevalier attended the Lycée Henri IV in Paris, where he was a pupil of Émile Chartier (Alain ). From 1932 he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS ), where he was a friend and fellow student of Georges Pompidou. After Agrégation 1938 he was tutor at the ENS and has taught at the Ecole libre des sciences politiques, Institut d' études politiques for the de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1946, where Chevalier was a professor. His students included there Edouard Balladur. In 1952 he became a professor at the College de France on the chair of history and social structures of the Paris region.

In 1958 he published a study of the Parisian working class in the 19th century, the revised many outdated views of historians. He he also dealt with the everyday life of the working class in Paris and its historical changes. His book about the murder of Paris in 1977, in which he lamented the transformation of the city from the late 1950s, which he linked with the governments of Charles de Gaulle and his Minister of Culture André Malraux and de Gaulle 's successor Pompidou became known. Important to him was not so much the disappearance of building complexes such as the Halles than that of the cafes for example at the Montmartre ( about whose history he wrote a book ), which were carriers of Parisian culture for him.

In 1958 he became knight, officer in 1967 and 1977, commander of the Legion of Honour. In 1987 he received the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

Writings

  • Le problème démographique North africain, PUF, 1947
  • La formation de la population parisienne au XIXè siècle, PUF, collection Travaux et documents / Institut national d' études démographique, 1949
  • Démographie générale, éd. Dalloz, 1951
  • Madagascar, population et ressources, PUF, collection Institut national d'études for Demographic, Travaux et documents, 1952
  • Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses, Plon, collection Civilisations et d'aujourd'hui d' here, 1958, new edition Paris: Hachette1978 ( English Translation Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes: In Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, 2000)
  • Les Parisiens, Hachette, 1967, 1985
  • Anachronique Histoire des Français, Paris: Plon, 1974 ( received the Grand Prix Gobert )
  • L' Assassinat de Paris, Calmann - Lévy, Archives des sciences sociales Collection, 1977, new edition Ivrea 1997 ( English translation of The Assassination of Paris, University Of Chicago Press, 1994 )
  • Montmartre du plaisir et du crime, collection Les Hommes et l' histoire, Robert Laffont, 1980
  • Histoire de la nuit parisienne: 1940-1960, Fayard, 1982
  • Les Relais de mer. Un village de la côte de la veille de la Vendée guerre de 14 de la Deuxième Guerre aux lendemains mondiale, Fayard, 1983
  • Les Ruines de Subure: Montmartre, de 1939 aux années 80, Paris, R. Laffont, 1985
  • Juanito: Andalousie de boue et de sang, Paris, Stock, collection, Un Livre, une vie, 1990
  • Splendeurs et du fait divers misères, Paris, Perrin, Collection Pour l' Histoire, 2003
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