François Furet

1927 - 1997

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country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

occupation: historian, university teacher

award received: Knight of the Legion of Honour, Prix Chateaubriand, Hannah Arendt Prize, Grand Prix Gobert, Gordon J. Laing Award, Louis-Marin prize

position held: president, seat 1 of the Académie française

François Furet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa fyʁɛ]; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago. Furet was elected to the Académie française in March 1997, just three months before he died in July. Source: Wikipedia (en)