1. Pierre Nora is known for his work on French identity and memory.
20 Facts About Pierre Nora
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Pierre Nora is associated with the study of nouvelle histoire.
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Pierre Nora was a teacher at the Lycee Lamoriciere d'Oran in Algeria from 1958 until 1960.
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Pierre Nora wrote a book about his experiences, published under the title.
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Pierre Nora met Ben Bella who, embracing him, asked Nora to sit by his side as his motorcade drove into Algiers the following day.
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Ben Bella was under the impression that Pierre Nora, whose account of Algeria he had read with admiration while in prison, was a member of the local Algerian Jewish community.
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Pierre Nora joined Editions Julliard in 1964, where he created the Archives paperback collection.
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Pierre Nora declined to translate Eric Hobsbawm's work, The Age of Extremes.
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Pierre Nora admired the book, admitted its high quality but after a long delay, turned it down, telling Hobsbawm that the high costs of translation would make its sale price prohibitive, and the French left itself, given the times, would be hostile.
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Pierre Nora explained that context of hostility towards Communism in France was not appropriate to that type of publication, that all the editors, "like it or not, had an obligation to take account of the intellectual and ideological situation in which they had written their works".
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In May 1980, Pierre Nora founded at Gallimard the review with philosopher Marcel Gauchet; this quickly became one of the major French intellectual reviews.
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In 1983 French historian Jacques Julliard judged Pierre Nora to be the natural heir to the role played by Raymond Aron.
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Pierre Nora opposed himself to the law of 23 February 2005 "supporting national recognition and national taxation in favour of French repatriations" and cosigned a petition in the daily entitled.
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Pierre Nora is equally well known for having directed, three volumes which gave as their point the work of enumerating the places and the objects in which are the incarnate national memory of the French.
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Pierre Nora posited that the French Algerians were different from the French of the Metropol.
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Pierre Nora's opinions were developed from his two years as a high school teacher in Algiers.
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Pierre Nora is the brother of the late Simon Pierre Nora, a former senior French administrative professional.
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Pierre Nora is the uncle of Olivier Nora, the president and publisher of the French publishing house Editions Grasset.
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Pierre Nora was married from 1964 to 1976 to art historian and curator Francoise Cachin, and had a 40-year extra-conjugal relationship with Gabrielle van Zuylen, who died in 2010.
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Pierre Nora has a son, now a biologist in San Francisco, by a third companion.