Overview

• Pierre Nora died on June 2, 2025, at the age of 93, in a passing announced by his family via a statement from his nephew, Olivier Nora.
• Born in Paris on November 17, 1931, he became a leading editor at Gallimard, guiding publications by Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt and Georges Duby.
• Between 1984 and 1992 he oversaw the three‐volume Les Lieux de mémoire, a landmark study of France’s collective memory and national symbols.
• He held teaching posts at EHESS and Sciences Po Paris and was elected to the Académie française in 2001.
• In 2007 he founded Liberté pour l’histoire to defend historians’ autonomy and later published two memoir volumes, Jeunesse and Une étrange obstination.