Philippe Minard (18 October 1961 – 24 March 2024) was a French academic researcher and historian.[1]
Philippe Minard | |
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 Minard in 2009 | |
| Born | 18 October 1961 Pont-Audemer, France |
| Died | 24 March 2024 (aged 62) |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation(s) | Researcher Historian |
Minard was a longtime professor and chair of the modern history department at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He specialized in the economic and social history of France and England during the 18th Century.
Biography
editBorn in Pont-Audemer on 18 October 1961, Minard graduated from the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1986. He earned a doctorate from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1994 with a thesis titled L'inspection des manufactures en France, de Colbert à la Révolution and directed by Daniel Roche.[2] He was a docent at the University of Lille from 1995 to 2005.[3]
Minard obtained a habilitation à diriger des recherches from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2004.[4] In 2005, he became a professor at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and became director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 2007. That year, he signed his name in an appeal in Le Nouvel Observateur urging people to vote for Ségolène Royal in the presidential election.[5]
Philippe Minard died on 24 March 2024, at the age of 62.[6]
Publications
edit- Typographes des Lumières : suivi des Anecdotes typographiques de Nicolas Contat (1989)
- La fortune du colbertisme : état et industrie dans la France des Lumières (1998)
- France moderne par les sources : 1498-1653 (1999)
- France moderne par les sources : 1653-1789 (1999)
References
edit- ^ Chaillan, Pierre (26 March 2024). "Mort de Philippe Minard, une histoire économique et sociale". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "L'inspection des manufactures en France, de Colbert à la Révolution". theses.fr (in French).
- ^ "Bibliothèque nationale de France" (in French).
- ^ "Marché, normes et institutions en France et en Angleterre dans le "long XVIIIe siècle" / Philippe Minard ; sous la direction de [Dominique Margairaz]". Système universitaire de documentation (in French).
- ^ ""Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard"". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French). 27 February 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ Huret, Romain (25 March 2024). "Hommage à Philippe Minard". School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2024.