Specialist in urban history, the political economy, demography and the history of the book, the University Professor and Study Director at the EHESS died on December 10, at the age 93 years old.
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Modernist historian specialist in urban history, political economy, demographics and book history, Jean-Claude Perrot died at her Parisian home on December 10, at the age of 93 years .
Born March 8, 1928 in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine), Jean-Claude Perrot came from a modest environment – if his mother who studied notariat works for the registration of mortgages, his father is foreman in metallurgy. It is in his maternal family, in Châteauroux (Indre), where his grandfather is carpenter, that the child grows, educated in this city of kindergarten at the terminale, raised by his aunts, one of which is a teacher and The other representative of a Singer store. In high school attended Jean Giraudoux and where the historian Albert Mathiez taught a time, he meets during the occupation of the future architect and urbanist Paul Chemetov, refugee in a free zone – he will remain from his friends.
The meeting with Michelle Roux
Cumulating a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and one of mathematics, he opts for a history license at the Faculty of Letters of Poitiers, then the preparation of the aggregation at the Sorbonne, funding at each stage his studies by posts of Master of Internat. If he meets the young Michelle Roux in the student teams who prepare the contest, it was only at the evening of his admission in 1952 – she was received the previous year – that Jean-Claude Perrot is getting closer to The one he will marry in Paris in October 1953, as soon as possible – in Carpiquet near Caen, then to Dijon – his military service.
Both are named in Caen, he at Lycée Malherbe (Boys), she at the Pasteur High School (Girls). They sympathize with other couples of teachers, Mona and Jacques Ozouf, Nicole and Georges Le Douarin, as well as an Ivan Denys, professor of letters against his past of resistant to 13 years at the Janson-de-Sailly High School. When the Algerian war mobilizes the spirits, all tract, show together against the use of torture, in conjunction with Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930-2006), appointed Assistant at the University of Caen in 1956, as with the Doyen Michel de Boüard (1909-1989), Catholic, Resistant and Communist, which also entrusts the Perrot of Rendess in the Annals Journal of Normandy just founded (1951). This is the brief moment when the couple adheres to the PCF, but the rigor and intellectual intransigence of the historian quickly put an end to the political idyll.
Michelle and Jean-Claude returned Paris in 1957, named him in Condorcet, she in Camille-Sée. Research Attaché at the CNRS (1961-1963), Jean-Claude Perrot is Assistant at La Sorbonne as early as 1964 – Master Assistant in 1968 -, while intervening as a speaker at the Institute of Political Studies. If he undertakes Ernest Labrousse (1895-1988), holder of the Chair of Economic and Social History at the Sorbonne, a thesis on the stewardship of Caen, the site is so vast and the commitment of Perrot so requiring that the site takes more than ten years and that the defense in April 1973 takes place before a jury chaired by Pierre Vilar (1906-2003), successor of Labrousse at La Sorbonne.
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