Overview

• Jean-Pierre Azéma died on July 14 in Paris at age 87, his daughter Ariane confirmed to AFP.
• He spent decades teaching at Sciences Po and chaired the 2012 Interministerial Mission’s historical committee for war anniversaries.
• His landmark works include La Collaboration (1975), Vichy (1997), 1940, l’année noire (2010) and biographies of Jean Cavaillès and Jean Moulin.
• He brought academic research to wider audiences through contributions to L’Histoire, advising France 3’s Un village français and scripting Claude Chabrol’s L’Œil de Vichy.
• Colleagues such as Michel Winock and Eric Anceau praised his clarity, rigor and enduring influence on generations of students and public history.