Pierre Nora

Pierre Nora (17 November 1931 – 2 June 2025) was a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He was known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He was the brother of the late Simon Nora, former French officer.

From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Science). From 1977 he was the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of higher studies in social sciences).

Nora died on 2 June 2025 in Paris, France at the age of 93.L’historien Pierre Nora est mort 

References

Other websites
  L'Académie française
  Biographical note of the l'Académie française 
  Catalogue of the Collection Archives of Gallimard Julliard  (founded by Pierre Nora in 1964)
  Conference of Pierre Nora in Blois on 15 October 2005
 Building a Collective Consciousness on a National Scale: Jewish Historian Pierre Nora Defined What’s Quintessentially French by Benjamin Ivry from The Jewish Daily Forward, issue of 17 June 2011.

Category:1931 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:French historians
Category:Writers from Paris