Background
Francois Furet was born on March 27, 1927, in Paris, France. He was a son of Pierre Furet, a banker, and Marie-Rose Furet.
Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris, France
Francois Furet received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly.
University of Paris, Paris, France
Francois Furet attended the University of Paris, known as the Sorbonne.
Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris, France
Francois Furet received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly.
University of Paris, Paris, France
Francois Furet attended the University of Paris, known as the Sorbonne.
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1977
(In this book, François Furet analyses how an event like t...)
In this book, François Furet analyses how an event like the French Revolution can be conceptualised and identifies the radically new changes the Revolution produced as well as the continuity it provided, albeit under the appearance of change. This question has become a riddle for the European left, answered neither by Marx nor by the theorists of our own century. In his analysis of the tragic relevance of the Revolution, Furet both refers to contemporary experience and discusses various elements in the work of Alexis de Tocclueville and that of Augustin Cochin, which has never been systematically applied by historians of the Revolution.
https://www.amazon.com/Interpreting-French-Revolution-Fran%C3%A7ois-Furet/dp/0521280494/?tag=2022091-20
1978
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1980
(Those concerned with the practice of history as a discipl...)
Those concerned with the practice of history as a discipline and as an intellectual activity will be intrigued by the view of history that François Furet offers in this collection of essays. After twenty-five years as a professional historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and in the ranks of the Annales school, Furet sets out to reexamine the methodological and intellectual cleavages that exist today among historians.
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1984
(Throughout his life, Karl Marx commented on the French Re...)
Throughout his life, Karl Marx commented on the French Revolution, but never was able to realize his project of systematic work on this immense event. This book assembles for the first time all that Marx wrote on this subject. François Furet provides an extended discussion of Marx's thinking on the revolution, and Lucien Calvié situates each of the selections, drawn from existing translations as well as previously untranslated material, in its larger historical context.
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1986
(With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, Fran...)
With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, François Furet and Mona Ozouf invite the reader to recross the first two centuries of French democracy in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the world in which we live today.
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1988
(Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is ...)
Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.
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1988
(This book discusses Nazi policies toward the Jews, the or...)
This book discusses Nazi policies toward the Jews, the origins of genocide, Jewish resistance, the relation of genocide to fascist ideology, and remaining questions about the rise of Nazism.
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1989
(This is a penetrating history of the ideological passions...)
This is a penetrating history of the ideological passions that have fueled and characterized the modern era.
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1995
Francois Furet was born on March 27, 1927, in Paris, France. He was a son of Pierre Furet, a banker, and Marie-Rose Furet.
Francois Furet received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He attended the University of Paris, known as the Sorbonne.
In 1956 Francois Furet was hired at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), and five years later became assistant director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales). He would spend the rest of his career there, serving as director of studies after 1966; he became its president in 1977. For some time, he was also affiliated with the University of Chicago and its Committee on Social Thought. He was a visiting professor there and became Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought from 1985 to 1997.
After the strikes and protests that surrounded Paris’s 1968 student riots, Furet helped draft a reform plan for his alma mater, and still retained a decided Marxist interpretation of French history and the events of the 1789 Revolution. Much of the historical scholarship in France followed similar strains of thought in the postwar era - its historians posited that the upheaval was less a seizure of political power than the inevitable result of Marxism - which, in 1789, did not yet exist as a political philosophy. From 1985 to 1992 he was a director of Raymond Aron Institute. From 1982 to 1997 he served as a co-chair and president of Saint-Simon Foundation.
François Furet was acknowledged as the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the French Revolution. His work reached beyond the academic world. It had a significant influence on the public perception of France's modern political culture and its defining source in the French Revolution. In 1997 he was named a member of Academie Française.
(With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, Fran...)
1988(In this book, François Furet analyses how an event like t...)
1978(Those concerned with the practice of history as a discipl...)
1984(This book discusses Nazi policies toward the Jews, the or...)
1989(Throughout his life, Karl Marx commented on the French Re...)
1986(This is a penetrating history of the ideological passions...)
1995(Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is ...)
1988In 1949 Francois Furet became a member of the French Communist Party, but he left it in 1956 following the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Francois Furet was the leading figure in the rejection of the classic or Marxist interpretation. He also considered that Bolshevism and fascism to be totalitarian twins as both had their origins in socialism and anti-liberal sentiments.
On December 22, 1961, Francois Furet married Jacqueline Nora. In 1986 he married Deborah Kan. Francois had two children: a son, Antoine, from his first marriage, a daughter, Charlotte, from the second marriage.
