Pierre Nora

Biography

Pierre Charles Nora (17 November 1931 – 2 June 2025) was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the na...