Jeanne Henriette Louis
Jeanne Henriette Louis (often spelled Jeanne-Henriette Louis), born in 1938 in Bordeaux, is professor emeritus of civilization in North America at the University of Orléans, France. Her work relates to psychological warfare and the peace movement. Thesis. In 1983, Jeanne Henriette Louis defended her thesis on psychological warfare in the United States during World War II, entitled "Les concepts de guerre psychologique aux États-Unis de 1939 à 1943, l’engrenage de la violence" ("The concepts of psychological warfare in the United States from 1939 to 1943, the cycle of violence"). She felt that research on colonial  America had ignored important elements, and her postdoctoral work focused on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in North America. Jeanne Henriette Louis says that comparisons between the French colonization of the Americas (French colonial) and the British colonization of the Americas (British colonial America) have rarely been conducted, and this field of investigation is rich and promising. Academic career. Assistant in the department of English at the University of Orleans in 1970, Jeanne Henriette Louis became professor of American civilization in 1989. In 2001 she retired as professor emeritus. Research Topics. Following her PhD, Jeanne Henriette Louis became interested in  peace movements and especially the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Quakers of Nantucket, the neutrality of Acadia during the Franco-British wars, as well as the founding of Pennsylvania by William Penn. Commitments. Active in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in France, and a member of the sponsoring committee of the French Coalition for the Decade (2010).