Jean-Clément Martin
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- Historian
- writer
- teacher
Jean-Clément Martin | |
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.jpg) Jean-Clément Martin at the "Rendez-vous de l'histoire" in Blois (2018). | |
| Born | 31 January 1948 Thouars, France |
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| Known for | Historian of the French Revolution |
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| Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
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| Era | French history |
Jean-Clément Martin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kləmɑ̃ maʁtɛ̃]), born on 31 January 1948,[citation needed] is a French historian, a specialist in the French Revolution, Counter-revolution and the War in the Vendée.
Jean-Clément Martin was a pupil of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.[citation needed] From 2000 to 2008 he was the director of the Institut d'histoire de la Révolution française, connected to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Since then he has been professor emeritus.
Research on the French Revolution
He studies the Vendée as a lieu de mémoire or memory space.[1] His research focusses on understanding violence, the contribution of gender history and the role of religion and religiosity in the revolutionary process.
He refuses to consider the operations ordered in Vendée by the National Convention, either the infernal columns or the drownings at Nantes, as genocide.[2] For him, "il y a bien eu des crimes de guerre et des batailles abominables, c'est clair, mais en aucun cas un génocide" [there were war crimes and abominable battles, that's clear, but in no way genocide] during the Vendée wars, the French Revolution having been civil war.[2]
