Pascal Ory | |
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Ory during a France Culture broadcast at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, March 2010 | |
| Born | 31 July 1948 |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer(s) | Sciences Po, EHESS and Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
| Known for | Contemporary historian |
Political party | PS |
| Spouses | Agnès Saal
(m. 1982; div. 1986)Anne Le Davay (m. 1987) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | Pascal Ory publications on Academia.edu |
Pascal Ory (French pronunciation: [paskal ɔʁi]; born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history.[citation needed]
Ory is a professor at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is president of the Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) and regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique.[citation needed][needs update?]
Involved in politics, he was a municipal councillor, formerly an ally to the mayor Georges Lemoine, and head of the socialist list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of Chartres.[citation needed]
Ory was elected to the Académie Française on 4 March 2021.