• Alain Besançon (25 April 1932 – 9 July 2023) was a French historian. He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he...
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    upon this point. French critics wrote about the point. According to Alain Besançon, the tsarevich's murder by the tsar is a central scene of the Russian...
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  • German writer. Dur Muhammad Baloch, 40, Pakistani boxer, heart attack. Alain Besançon, 91, French historian. Joe Campbell, 68, American football player (New...
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  • Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1989, p. 88 Alain Besançon agrees in: The Soviet Syndrome, 1978, p. 20 Christine D. Tomei, Russian...
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    specific force, paving the way for a painting of contemporary history. Alain Besançon, a French historian, regards the painting exemplary for the connection...
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    bois soviétique : description, rôle et fonctionnement, directed by Alain Besançon at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. She was then...
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    Benoît Rayski accused some intellectuals, including Stéphane Courtois, Alain Besançon, Ernst Nolte and Jean-François Revel, of wanting to confound the West...
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    whose purpose is to avoid encounters with realities. He agrees with Alain Besançon that the totalitarian society envisaged by George Orwell in Nineteen...
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    1999 to the Sociology section. to the seat vacated by the transfer of Alain Besançon. His major contributions to the field of anthropological and historical...
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    François-Victor-Noury de l’Institut de France. Lucien Israël (author) (pref. Alain Besançon), Les dangers de l’euthanasie : entretiens avec Élisabeth Lévy / Lucien...
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    Gérald Antoine Jean Bæchler Marianne Bastid-Bruguière Pierre Bauchet Alain Besançon Jacques Boré Bernard Bourgeois Gabriel de Broglie Jean-Claude Casanova...
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  • ours, but resilience is essential when it comes to its quality as art. Alain Besançon, L'image interdite, Fayard, 1994, p. 407, ISBN 2-213-59254-3 Arthur...
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  • Adrian Tan dies at 57 after battle with cancer Mort de l’historien Alain Besançon, figure de l’anti-totalitarisme (in French) L’historien Jean-Jacques...
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    group of common friends that included Annie Kriegel, Jean Baechler, Alain Besançon, François Bourricaud [fr], and Kostas Papaïoannou [fr]. The journal's...
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  • Mahoney contextualizes Kolnai's anti-utopianism among such thinkers as Alain Besançon and Václav Havel as well as Solzhenitsyn who viewed utopian thinking...
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  • Lucie Aubrac (1938) Alfred Baudrillart (1881) François Bédarida (1949) Alain Besançon (1957) Georges Bidault (1925) Marc Bloch (1908) François Bluche (1950)...
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    Jean Baechler (Paris IV Sorbonne), François Bourricaud (Paris IV) and Alain Besançon (EHESS). PhD in historical sociology (Paris IV Sorbonne, 1997): "Murderers...
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    (2014). Karpiński's book-length interviews with Leszek Kołakowski and Alain Besançon appeared in the 1980s. He also wrote essays about Kołakowski for the...
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    l'esprit". Besançon: La Manufacture, 1991. p. 209: "J'ai joué dans Emmanuelle pour me débarrasser de l'estime des gens que je n'estimais pas." Alain Cuny at...
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    Alain Fousseret was the brother of Jean-Louis Fousseret, the former Socialist mayor of Besançon. He died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 66. "Alain...
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    ISBN 978-2-87282-387-1 Ecchymose, Besançon, Les Solitaires Intempestifs, «Bleue», 2005, 48 p. ISBN 978-2-84681-137-8 Face à la mère, Besançon, Les Solitaires Intempestifs...
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  • De l'humour. 1980: Bertrand d'Astorg, Les noces orientales. 1981: Alain Besançon, Ensemble de son œuvre. 1982: Pierre Andreu, Vie et mort de Max Jacob...
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  • intellectuals and religious figures, including Academician Andrei Sakharov, Alain Besançon, Pope John Paul II, Malcolm Pearson, Baroness Caroline (Caroline) Cox...
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  • Dominique Ponnau for all his work 2010: Claire Daudin for Le Sourire 2011: Alain Besançon for Cinq personnages en quête d'amour. Mention to Christophe Carichon...
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  • thought of Samuel P. Huntington, Tariq Ramadan, Georges Corm, Alain Besançon and Alain Finkielkraut, and criticizes their perceived warmongering tendencies...
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  • Eloy Benito Ruano Theodor Berchem Wolfgang Bergsdorf France Bernik Alain Besançon Belisario Betancur Gunter Bischof Dieter Bingen Tzotcho Boiadjiev Pierre...
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  • Warrior Rally Raid UK Desert Warrior III Ahmed Al Shamy Ahmed Al Shamy Alain Besançon T1 1-2 Ford Ford Raptor RS Cross Country MP-Sports Martin Prokop Viktor...
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  • post-Keynesian economists, such as circuitist Alain Parguez, professor of economics, University of Besançon, who "reject[s] the keynesian liquidity preference...
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    and La Marsa (1960). Jean Amrouche (letters) Jean Anglade (Italian) Alain Besançon François Châtelet (philosophy) Claude Hagège (letters) Rachel Hautot...
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    exhibition lent by the city of Besançon to close this tribute. The tragic fate of Lucien Bersot was told in a book by Alain Scoff, Le Pantalon, published...
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