Rene Girault

Rene Girault (1929-1999) is a French historian professor with the Sorbonne.

Biography

He makes his studies with the college Jean-Baptiste Say during the Occupation. Its studies in the Sorbonne lead it to the Agrégation of history in 1955. It is then named professor of college, in Mans, then in Paris with Janson de Sailly. He teaches nearly ten years in college, until 1965. In same time, he undertakes his thesis of doctorate of State under the direction of Roger Portal on the financial and economic relations between France and Russia of 1880 to 1914. The many voyages in the the USSR make of him at the same time a historian of the Russia and a historian of the International relations. Its thesis, constant in 1971, is published in 1973 (republished in 1999 pennies the French title Russian Emprunts and investments in Russia, 1887-1914 ).

During more than twenty years, he teaches the history of the contemporary international relations to the Université Paris I and the Université Paris X, before taking his retirement in 1994.

Publications

European Diplomacy and imperialisms, 1871-1914 , Paris, Masson, 1979 (new edition: European Diplomacy. Nations and imperialisms, 1871-1914. History of the contemporary international relations, Volume 1 , Payot, 2004,450 p.).
history and geography in question. Report/ratio with the Minister for State education , MEN, 1983, 201 p.
Turbulent Europe and new worlds, 1914-1941 , in collaboration with Robert Frank, Paris, Masson, 1988 (new edition: Turbulent Europe and new worlds, 1914-1941. History of the contemporary international relations, Volume 2 , Payot, 2004,513 p.).
Of Russia in the USSR. History of Russia of 1850 to our days, in collaboration with Marc Ferro, new re-examined and increased edition, Nathan, 1989, 255 p.
Pierre Mendès France and the role of France in the world , (to dir.), Grenoble, PUG, 1991, 487 p.
the Law of the giants, 1941-1964 , with Robert Frank and Jacques Thobie, Armand Colin, 1993.
Europe of Europeans , (to dir.), Publications of the Sorbonne, Paris, 1993,156 p.
broken Europe, found Europe. New reflections on the European unit at the 20th century , in collaboration with Gerard Bossuat (to dir.), Paris, Publications of the Sorbonne, 1994, 431 p.
European Identity and conscience at the XXe century , (to dir.), Hatchet, 1994,234 p.
Leon Blum, European Socialist , in collaboration with Gilbert Ziebura (to dir.), Complex, 1995.
People and nations of Europe at the XIXe century , Hatchet, Square coll History, 1996.
To be a historian of the international relations , Paris, Publications of the Sorbonne, 1998, 435 p.

See too

Internal bond

Soviétologie

External bond

Homage to Rene Girault.

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