Patrick Boucheron
{{Short description|French historian (born 1965)}}
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Patrick Boucheron (born 28 October 1965){{Cite web |last=Universalis |first=Encyclopædia |date=2017-08-28 |title=Biographie de PATRICK BOUCHERON (1965- ) |url=https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/patrick-boucheron/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Encyclopædia Universalis |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.betaseries.com/en/person/95204-patrick-boucheron |title=Patrick Boucheron |language=en |access-date=2024-07-31 |via=www.betaseries.com}} is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He is a professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of 12 books and or the editor of 5 books. His 2017 book, Histoire mondiale de la France (Global History of France), compiled work by 122 historians and became an unexpected bestseller, with more than 110 000 copies sold.{{Cite web|title=Pompéi sans les clichés avec Patrick Boucheron|url=https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/capture-d-ecrans/capture-d-ecrans-06-avril-2018|access-date=2020-10-10|website=www.franceinter.fr|date=6 April 2018 |language=fr}}
From 2017 to 2020, he hosted Quand l'histoire fait dates, a TV program of 22 episodes which explored different important dates in world history.
Early life
Patrick Boucheron was born in 1965 in Paris.{{cite web|title=Patrick Boucheron: Biographie|url=http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/patrick-boucheron/Biographie.htm|website=Collège de France|accessdate=21 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Biographie de Patrick Boucheron|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-patrick-boucheron.html|website=France Culture|accessdate=21 February 2017}}
Boucheron was educated at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He graduated from the École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines (ENS) in Saint-Cloud and earned the agrégation in history in 1988.{{cite web|title=Patrick Boucheron|url=http://data.bnf.fr/13341687/patrick_boucheron/|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France|accessdate=21 February 2017}} He earned a PhD in history from the University of Paris in 1994. His thesis supervisor was Pierre Toubert.
Career
Boucheron was an assistant professor in medieval history at his alma mater, the ENS, from 1994 to 1999. He was associate professor of history at the University of Paris from 1999 to 2012, and full professor from 2012 to 2016. He has been a professor of history at the Collège de France since 2016.{{cite news|last1=Catinchi|first1=Philippe-Jean|title=La magistrale leçon inaugurale de Patrick Boucheron au Collège de France|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/12/19/la-magistrale-lecon-inaugurale-de-patrick-boucheron-au-college-de-france_4835207_3246.html|accessdate=21 February 2017|work=Le Monde|date=19 December 2015}}
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Boucheron has served on the editorial board of L'Histoire since 1999. He was also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2004 to 2009. He has been the chairman of the advisory board of the École française de Rome since 2005. He is on the editorial board of the L'Univers Historique collection of the Éditions du Seuil, a French publisher, and he is a contributor to France Culture, a French radio station. He regularly attends the Banquet du livre, an annual book festival in Lagrasse.{{cite news|last1=Walon|first1=Sophie|title=Au Banquet du livre de Lagrasse, l'ivresse de la pensée littéraire et philosophique "vivante et partagée"|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2011/08/10/au-banquet-du-livre-de-lagrasse-l-ivresse-de-la-pensee-litteraire-et-philosophique-vivante-et-partagee_1558145_3246.html|accessdate=21 February 2017|work=Le Monde|date=10 August 2011}}{{cite news|last1=Clarini|first1=Julie|title=Platon dans la garrigue|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/08/17/platon-dans-la-garrigue_4727836_3246.html|accessdate=21 February 2017|work=Le Monde|date=17 August 2015}}
Boucheron is the author or co-author of 12 books and or the editor or co-editor of 5 books. His first book, Le pouvoir de bâtir : urbanisme et politique édilitaire à Milan (XIVe-XVe siècles), was his PhD thesis.{{cite journal|last1=Gilli|first1=Patrick|title=Patrick Boucheron, Le Pouvoir de bâtir. Urbanisme et politique édilitaire à Milan (XIVe-XVe siècles) [compte rendu]|journal=Médiévales|date=1999|volume=18|issue=37|pages=173–175|url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/medi_0751-2708_1999_num_18_37_1473_t1_0173_0000_2|accessdate=22 February 2017}} Out of the many books he edited, Le mot qui tue. Une histoire des violences intellectuelles de l'Antiquité à nos jours, is about the use of words to wound others.{{cite news|last1=Birnbaum|first1=Jean|title="Le mot qui tue. Une histoire des violences intellectuelles de l'Antiquité à nos jours", sous la direction de Vincent Azoulay et Patrick Boucheron : manier l'épée en même temps que la plume|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2009/04/30/le-mot-qui-tue-une-histoire-des-violences-intellectuelles-de-l-antiquite-a-nos-jours-sous-la-direction-de-vincent-azoulay-et-patrick-boucheron_1187206_3260.html|accessdate=22 February 2017|work=Le Monde|date=30 April 2009}} His inaugural address before the Collège de France, Ce que peut l’histoire, was published as a book in 2016.{{cite news|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title= Ce que peut l'histoire |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/01/01/ce-que-peut-l-histoire_4840743_3232.html|accessdate=22 February 2017|work=Le Monde|date=1 January 2016}}
In 2017, Boucheron edited Histoire mondiale de la France (Global History of France), co-written by 122 historians.{{cite news|last1=Aeschimann|first1=Eric|last2=Caviglioli|first2=David|title="Histoire mondiale de la France": le livre qui exaspère Finkielkraut, Zemmour et Cie|url=http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/idees/20170201.OBS4717/histoire-mondiale-de-la-france-le-livre-qui-exaspere-finkielkraut-zemmour-et-cie.html|accessdate=21 February 2017|work=Libération|date=1 February 2017}} The book presents an account of French history from an international perspective; for example, it includes the 1973 Chilean coup d'état as part of French history. The book's release coincided with the 2017 French presidential election, although it is not explicitly political. Histoire mondiale de la France became a best-seller, and was positively reviewed by left-leaning outlets such as Le Monde and Libération, while being attacked by right-leaning outlets and conservative intellectuals.{{cite news|last1=Darnton|first1=Robert|title=A Buffet of French History|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/11/histoire-mondiale-buffet-french-history/|accessdate=24 March 2018|work=The New York Review of Books|date=11 May 2017|language=en}} It was dismissed by Éric Zemmour, who described it as "historically correct". François-Xavier Bellamy criticised the book for not defining France within its borders and sovereign prerogative. Alain Finkielkraut criticized it for not to mentioning French literature.{{cite news|last1=Finkielkraut|first1=Alain|title=La charge d'Alain Finkielkraut contre "les fossoyeurs du grand héritage français"|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/histoire/2017/01/25/31005-20170125ARTFIG00282-la-charge-d-alain-finkielkraut-contre-les-fossoyeurs-du-grand-heritage-francais.php|accessdate=21 February 2017|work=Le Figaro|date=25 January 2017}}
Boucheron was a co-writer for the 2024 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.{{Cite news |date=2024-07-16 |title=Paris Olympics opening ceremony's writers: 'If it's only there to produce ephemeral glitz, what's the point?' |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2024/07/16/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-s-writers-if-it-s-only-there-to-produce-ephemeral-glitz-what-s-the-point_6686013_9.html |access-date=2024-07-26 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=en}}
In 2025 he intervened publicly pushing for the censorship of the collective work Face à l’obscurantisme woke, the initial publication of which was planned for April 2025 at PUF.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-10 |title=Les PUF déprogramment la parution d’un livre dénonçant le wokisme à l’université |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/les-puf-deprogramment-la-parution-d-un-livre-denoncant-le-wokisme-a-l-universite-20250310 |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-11 |title=Les Presses universitaires de France suspendent la parution d'un ouvrage "anti-woke" |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/les-presses-universitaires-de-france-suspendent-la-parution-d-un-ouvrage-anti-woke_7121850.html |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}}
Works in English
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Boucheron|editor-first1=Patrick|title=France in the World. A New Global History|date=2019|publisher=Other Press|location=New York|isbn=9781590519417}}{{Cite web|title=Books|url=https://otherpress.com/books/|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Other Press|language=en}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Machiavelli. The Man Who Taught the People What They Have to Fear.|date=2020|publisher=Other Press|location=New York|isbn=9781590519523}}
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Le pouvoir de bâtir : urbanisme et politique édilitaire à Milan (XIVe-XVe siècles)|date=1998|publisher=Ecole française de Rome|location=Rome|isbn=9782728305247|oclc=470439360}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Boucheron|editor-first1=Patrick|editor-last2=Chiffoleau|editor-first2=Jacques|title=Les palais dans la ville : espaces urbains et lieux de la puissance publique dans la Méditerranée médiévale|date=2004|publisher=Presses universitaires de Lyon|location=Lyon|isbn=9782729707477|oclc=419499802}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Boucheron|editor-first1=Patrick|title=Histoire du monde au XVe siècle|date=2009|publisher=Fayard|location=Paris|isbn=9782213635491|oclc=878718887}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Les villes d'Italie : vers 1150-vers 1340|date=2004|publisher=Belin|location=Paris|isbn=9782701139753|oclc=56681985}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Faire profession d'historien|date=2010|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|location=Paris|isbn=9782859446550|oclc=671465753}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Boucheron|editor-first1=Patrick|editor-last2=Offenstadt|editor-first2=Nicolas|title=L'espace public au Moyen Âge : débats autour de Jürgen Habermas|date=2011|publisher=Presses Universitaires de France|location=Paris|isbn=9782130573579}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|last2=Menjot|first2=Denis|editor-first1=Jean-Luc|editor-last1=Pinol|title=La ville médiévale|date=2011|publisher=Éditions du Seuil|location=Paris|isbn=9782757825471|oclc=930805151}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=L'entretemps : conversations sur l'histoire|date=2012|publisher=Verdier|location=Lagrasse|isbn=9782864326724|oclc=796230072}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|last2=Venayre|first2=Sylvain|title=L'histoire au conditionnel : textes et documents à l'usage de l'étudiant|date=2012|publisher=Mille et une nuits|location=Paris|isbn=9782755506914|oclc=852117722}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Léonard et Machiavel|date=2013|publisher=Éditions Verdier|location=Lagrasse|isbn=9782864327417|oclc=898491736}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Azoulay|editor-first1=Vincent|editor-last2=Boucheron|editor-first2=Patrick|title=Le mot qui tue : une histoire des violences intellectuelles de l'Antiquité à nos jours|date=2013|publisher=Editions Champ Vallon|location=Seyssel|isbn=9782876735040|oclc=966061315}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Conjurer la peur : Sienne, 1338 : essai sur la force politique des images|date=2013|publisher=Editions du Seuil|location=Paris|isbn=9782021134995}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|last2=Delalande|first2=Nicolas|title=Pour une histoire-monde|date=2013|publisher=Presses Universitaires de France|location=Paris|isbn=9782130620655|oclc=842467414}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=De l'éloquence architecturale : Milan, Mantoue, Urbino (1450 - 1520)|date=2014|publisher=Éditions B2|location=Paris|isbn=9782365090377|oclc=904458008}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|last2=Riboulet|first2=Mathieu|authorlink2=Mathieu Riboulet|title=Prendre dates : Paris, 6 janvier - 14 janvier 2015|date=2015|publisher=Verdier|location=Lagrasse|isbn=9782864328001|oclc=914280522}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Ce que peut l'histoire|date=2016|publisher=Fayard|location=Paris|isbn=9782213701264|oclc=951175589}}
- {{cite book|last1=Boucheron|first1=Patrick|title=Comment se révolter|date=2016|publisher=Bayard|location=Montrouge|isbn=9782227489240|oclc=961342251}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Boucheron|editor-first1=Patrick|title=Histoire mondiale de la France|date=2017|publisher=Seuil|location=Paris|isbn=9782021336290|oclc=973193003}}
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