François Furet (1927–1997)
Author of The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
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Image credit: Francois Furet en mars 1973 à l'occasion de la parution de l'ouvrage coécrit avec Denis Richet 'La Révolution française'
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Works by François Furet
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1995) — Author — 221 copies
Fischer Weltgeschichte, Bd.26, Das Zeitalter der europäischen Revolution 1780-1848 (1969) — Author — 51 copies
La Revolution: De Turgot a Jules Ferry : 1770-1880 (Histoire de France Hachette) (French Edition) (1988) — Author — 16 copies
Lies, Passions, and Illusions: The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century (2014) — Author — 12 copies
The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture : The Political Culture of the Old Regime (1987) — Author — 7 copies
La Révolution française : Penser la Révolution française ; La Révolution, de Turgot… (2007) — Author — 4 copies
La gauche et la Re volution franc ʹaise au milieu du XIXe sie cle : Edgar Quinet et la question du jacobinisme,… (1986) 3 copies
La Révolution, 2 Vols.: Tome I, des Etats Généraux au 9 Thermidor - Tome II, Du 9 Thermidor au 18 Brumaire (1965) — Author — 3 copies
Ensaios sobre a Revolução Francesa 2 copies
Comunismo y fascismo 1 copy
A Revolução em debate 1 copy
Comunismo y antifascismo 1 copy
le passe d une illusion 1 copy
Trecutul unei iluzii 1 copy
French Revolution 1 copy
La revolution I 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Furet, François
- Other names
- Delcroix, André (Pseudonyme)
- Birthdate
- 1927-03-27
- Date of death
- 1997-07-12
- Burial location
- Cimetière communal, Saint-Pierre-Toirac, Lot, Occitanie, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Toulouse, France
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Education
- University of Paris-Sorbonne
Lycée Janson-Sailly - Occupations
- historian
professor
lecturer
writer - Relationships
- Grégoire, Menie (Cousine)
Nora, Simon (Beau-frère)
Nora, Pierre (Beau-frère)
Richet, Denis (Beau-frère) - Organizations
- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
French Communist Party - Awards and honors
- Hannah Arendt Prize (1996)
Académie française (1997) - Short biography
- François Furet was a French historian whose speciality was the French Revolution. Initially a Marxist, he became disillusioned with this philosophy and left the Communist Party in 1956. He went on to challenge the Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution as a form of class struggle. He described the Revolution as an inherently totalitarian regime.
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- Works
- 76
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- Members
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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