Background
Winock, Michel was born on March 19, 1937. Son of Gaston and Jeanne (Dussaule) Winock.
historian university professor
Winock, Michel was born on March 19, 1937. Son of Gaston and Jeanne (Dussaule) Winock.
Licence de lettres, Sorbonne, 1958. Licence d'Histoire-geographie, Sorbonne, 1959. Des d'Histoire(honorary), Sorbonne, 1960.
Agregation d'Histoire, Sorbonne, 1961. Doctorat d'Etat, Sorbonne, 1987.
Winock has also worked as a reporter for Le Monde. He also wrote Voix de la liberté (Voice of Liberty, 2001), acknowledged by the Académie française, and directed the Dictionnaire des intellectuels français with Jacques Juillard. He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.
The creation of the University of Vincennes following the Faure reform of 1968 opened the doors of higher education to him.
Winock also led a career as an editors In 1978, a year after leaving Esprit, he founded L"Histoire magazine with the aim of making the best historical research accessible to the public.
Author of about 40 works, Winock is today one of the most prolific and esteemed French historians. Winock was one of the initiators of the Liberté pour l"histoire (freedom for history) petition.
Winock participated in the administrative council of the association with the same name.
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He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d"Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and member of L"Histoire magazine"s editing board. He was member of the Esprit magazine from 1964, and became an adviser, then literary director to Éditions du Seuil.
Married Francouse Werner, October 28, 1961. Children: Thomas, Julien.