Jean-Pierre Rioux

{{Short description|French historian (1939–2024)}}

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|name = Jean-Pierre Rioux

|image = Jean-Pierre Rioux par Claude Truong-Ngoc 2012.jpg

|caption = Rioux in 2012

|birth_date = {{birth date|1939|02|15|df=y}}

|birth_place = Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France

|death_date = {{death date and age|2024|12|06|1939|02|15|df=y}}

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|occupation = Historian

|spouse = Hélène Rioux{{Citation|title=Printemps d'histoire: la khâgne et le métier d'historien: pour Hélène Rioux|first1=Ludivine|last1=Bantigny|first2=Aline|last2=Benain|first3=Muriel|last3=Le Roux|date=2004|page=68|language=French|isbn=2262022631|location=Paris, France|publisher=Éditions Perrin}}

|children = Rémy Rioux

|party = MoDem{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-987052,0.html|title=Modeste cri d'un sectateur blessé, par Jean-Pierre Rioux|work=Le Monde|date=7 December 2007|access-date=7 December 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211095205/https://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-987052,0.html|archive-date=11 December 2007|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine|language=French}}

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Jean-Pierre Rioux (15 February 1939 – 6 December 2024) was a French historian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/01/12/les-enfants-de-jaures-six-leaders-du-ps-et-une-cohorte-d-orphelins_6157523_3232.html|title=Les Enfants de Jaurès: six leaders du PS et une cohorte d'orphelins|first=Philippe-Jean|last=Catinchi|work=Le Monde|date=12 January 2023|access-date=7 December 2024|language=French}} He was director of research at the Institut d'histoire du temps présent from 1980 to 1991.

Rioux was a recipient of the Legion of Honour (2000) and Ordre national du Mérite (2011).{{Cite web|url=https://jorfsearch.steinertriples.ch/name/Jean-Pierre%20Rioux|title=Jean-Pierre Rioux|work=Nominations au Journal officiel de la République française|access-date=December 7, 2024|language=French}}

Rioux died on 6 December 2024, at the age of 85.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/12/06/jean-pierre-rioux-grand-historien-de-la-france-contemporaine-est-mort_6433582_3382.html|title=Jean-Pierre Rioux, grand historien de la France contemporaine, est mort|work=Le Monde|first=Philippe-Jean|last=Catinchi|date=6 December 2024|access-date=7 December 2024|language=French}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.la-croix.com/culture/mort-de-jean-pierre-rioux-l-historien-de-tous-les-temps-20241206|title=Mort de Jean-Pierre Rioux, l'historien de tous les temps|work=La Croix|first=Christopher|last=Henning|date=6 December 2024|access-date=7 December 2024|language=French}}