What is Pierre Nora?
{{ infobox person | name = Pierre Nora | image = Pierre Nora.JPG | caption = Pierre Nora in June 2011 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|11|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | occupation = Historian | nationality = [[France|French]] | known for = Member of the [[Académie française]] }} '''Pierre Nora''' (born 17 November 1931) is a [[France|French]] historian. He was elected to the [[Académie française]] on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.3/ah000906.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813203709/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.3/ah000906.html |archive-date=2007-08-13 |first=Hue-Tam Ho |last=Tai |title=Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory |publisher=The American Historical Review |date=June 2001 |quote=Essay on the English translation of ''Lieux de Mémoire'' as ''Realms of Memory'', edited by Pierre Nora}}</ref> His name is associated with the study of [[nouvelle histoire|new history]]. He is the brother of the late [[Simon Nora]], former French officer. From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the ''[[Sciences Po|Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]]'' (Paris Institute of Political Science). Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the ''[[École des hautes études en sciences sociales]]'' (School of higher studies in social sciences). ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française] * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=701 Biographical note of the l'Académie française] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213195519/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=701 |date=2009-02-13 }} * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.collectif-smolny.org/article.php3?id_article=777 Catalogue of the Collection