Pascal Ory

Birthday: 7/31/1948
Place of birth: Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Fame for: Acting

Biography

Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history. Ory is a professor at the Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is president of the Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) and regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. Involved in politics, he was a municipal councillor, formerly an ally to the mayor Georges Lemoine, and head of the socialist list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of Chartres. Ory was elected to the Académie Française on 4 March 2021. Source: Article "Pascal Ory" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.