Michel Vovelle

Michel Vovelle is a Historien French of the 20th century, specialist in XVIIe and 18th centuries. Former student of the National university of Saint-Cloud, pertaining to the Marxist current , it rehabilitated in the years 1990 the role of the individual actor, up to that point crushed by the economic constraints and social.

He was professor of modern history to the Université Aix-Marseilles I then professor of history of the French revolution with the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and director of the Institut of history of the French revolution, where he succeeded Albert Soboul. Michel Vovelle incarnates a form of cultural Histoire of the French revolution which integrates the assets of the history of mentalities, and posts like complementary to social Histoire. Its interest for the iconographic sources was consolidated by work of its pupils. It had a central role in the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French revolution in 1989 as a President of the commission of scientific research for the celebration of the bicentenary of the Revolution.

Works

Vision of died and beyond in Provence of XVe at the XIXe century according to the furnace bridges of the hearts of the purgatory , (in collaboration with Gaby Vovelle), Paris, A. Colin, 1970.
Piety baroque and dechristianization in Provence at the XVIIIe century. Attitudes in front of death according to the clauses of wills , Paris, Threshold, 1978.
To die formerly , Paris, Gallimard/Julliard, 1974; rééd. coll Folio, 1990.
the Irresistible Rise of middle-class Dry Joseph of Aix , Aix, Edisud, 1975.
the Metamorphosis of the festival in Provence of 1750 to 1830 , Paris, Flammarion, 1976.
Religion and Révolution: dechristianization of year II , Paris, Hatchet, 1976.
Death and Occident of 1300 to our days, Paris, Gallimard, 1983; réed. 2001.
the City of deaths, test on the imaginary urban collective according to the provençaux cemeteries, 1800-1980 (in collaboration with Governed Bertrand), Marseilles, editions of CNRS, 1983.
Theodore Desorgues or the disorganization: Aix-Paris, 1763-1808 , Paris, Threshold, 1985.
revolutionary Mentality: company and mentalities under the French revolution , Paris, ED. social, 1986.
1793, the Revolution against the Church: reason with the supreme , Paris, Complex being, 1988.
Adventures of the reason (discussions with Richard Fig tree), Paris, Belfond, 1989.
the 1789 heritage and the memory , Privat.
Of the cellar to the attic , Serge Fleury ED., Canada, 1980.
Stories figurales: medieval monsters with Wonderwoman , Paris, Usher, 1989.
the French revolution , Paris, A. Colin, 1992-2002.
the Hour of the great passage , Gallimard discovered, 1993.
Hearts of the purgatory or work of mourning , Paris, Gallimard, 1996.
the Century of the lights , Paris, PUF, 1997.
Jacobins of Robespierre with Chevènement , Paris, the Discovery, 1999.
the Republics sisters under the glances of the great nation , Paris, Harmattan, 2001.
Engagements for the French revolution , Paris, the Discovery, 1993-2001.
Madnesses of Aix or end of a world , ED. The time of cherries, Puppet, 2003.

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