François Bédarida
François Bédarida | |
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| Born | 14 March 1926 WWII, Vichy France, Antisemitism |
| Institutions | French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institut de France, Sorbonne University, University of Oxford |
François Bédarida, (14 March 1926 in
France in WWII. He made significant research contributions to the study of The Holocaust. He was a director of the Maison française in Oxford among other leadership roles.[1]
Life
François Bédarida was born into a family of Catholic intellectuals. His father, Henri Bédarida, was a specialist in Italian studies and professor at the Sorbonne. François attended the Lycée Montaigne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Lycée Henri-IV where he was deemed a brilliant student.[2]
French Resistance
During the
Témoignage chrétien movement where he met his future wife, Renée Bédarida.[1]
Academic career
In 1946 he resumed his education and entered the
Marseilles.[5] His doctoral thesis was on the Catholic population in London at the end of the 19th-century. François Bédarida then left for London to teach and carry out research at the French Institute
during 1950-1956.
In 1956 on his return to France, he became an associate of the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris. He became Director of research at the CNRS in 1979. He was a founder and first director of the Institut d'histoire du temps présent, from 1978 to 1990, and between 1990 and 2000 he held the post of General Secretary of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CIHS).[1]
Historian of Victorian England and France under Vichy
François Bédarida's first studies were into Victorian England. Notable among his work was a study of
Third Reich. He thereby locked into the two responsibilities of the historian in relation to that particular period, to perpetuate the role of the Resistance movement, and to establish scientifically the truth about events in order to avoid the creation of myths about that time. He collaborated with several authors in a number of publications on The Holocaust, notably with Jean-Pierre Azéma and his own wife, Renée Bédarida.[1]
Selected works
in French:
- La Grande-Bretagne - L'Angleterre triomphante (1832-1914), Hatier, coll. « Histoire Contemporaine », Paris, 1974
- La stratégie secrète de la "drôle de guerre": le Conseil suprême interallié de 1939- avril 1940. Paris: ISBN 2-7246-0428-8.
- Syndicats et patrons en Grande-Bretagne (with Éric Giuily and Gérard Rameix). Éditions de l'Atelier, 1980
- Bédarida, François, ed. (1987). Normandie 44, du débarquement à la libération [Normandy 44: Landing to the Liberation] (in French). Paris: Albin Michel.
- La Politique nazie d'extermination, Albin Michel, Paris, 1989
- La Société anglaise du milieu du 19è siècle à nos jours (1851-1975), Seuil, Paris, 1990
- Le Nazisme et le génocide – Histoire et enjeux, Nathan, Paris, 1991
- Le Nazisme et le génocide – Histoire et témoignage, Pocket, Paris, 1992
- Le régime de Vichy et les Français, 1992 (with Jean-Pierre Azéma)
- La France des années noires, Azéma, Jean-Pierre and Bédarida, François (eds.) 2 vol., Paris, Seuil, 1993 [rééd. Seuil, 2000 (Points Histoire)]
- Bédarida, François; Bédarida, Renée (1993). "La Persécution des Juifs". In Azéma, Jean-Pierre; Bédarida, François (eds.). La France des années noires: De l'Occupation à la Libération (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Seuil. pp. 149–182. OCLC 474077715.
- L'Histoire et le métier d'historien en France 1945-1995, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 1995
- Churchill, Fayard, Paris, 1999,
- Histoire, critique et responsabilité, IHTP-CNRS/Complexe, coll. « Histoire du temps présent », Paris/Bruxelles, 2003
- Preface to Les Témoins de Jéhovah face à Hitler by Guy Canonici Éditions Albin Michel S.A. 1998
in English:
- Bédarida, François (1979). A social history of England, 1851–1975. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-416-85920-1. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- A social history of England, 1851–1990, Routledge, 1991, ISBN 978-0-415-01614-8
in Spanish:
- Bédarida, François (1998). "Definición, método y práctica de la Historia del Tiempo Presente", Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 20:19-27.
Awards
- Honorary MA from the University of Oxford 1966
- Prix Mémoire de la Shoah 1992[6]
- Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur
- Officier du Mérite (1999)[7]
- Prix de la Fondation Pierre-Lafue, 2000
Legacy
The collected papers of François Bédarida are stored at the
Archives nationales, on the site of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
, under code 673AP
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g Johnson, Douglas (20 September 2001). "Obituary: François Bédarida". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "François Bédarida, Administrative role/biographical note". www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Vincent A. Lapomarda; The Jesuits and the Third Reich; 2nd Edn, Edwin Mellen Press; 2005; p. 328-331
- ^ Jewish Rescue Operations in Belgium and France; by Lucien Steinberg, published by Yad Vashem
- ^ "François Bédarida, un historien engagé". La Croix (in French). 18 September 2001. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ http://buchman.fondationjudaisme.org. Archived 8 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Légifrance".
