Christian Amalvi

Christian Amalvi (born 23 April 1954) is a French academic, professor of contemporary history and former lecturer at the University of Montpellier (1991–2023), known for his works on contemporary history.

Early life and education Born on 23 April 1954, Montauban, Amalvi attended the École Nationale des Chartes from 1974 to 1978 and became a curator at the National Library of France (1978–1991).

He taught at the University of Montpellier from 1991 to 1998, and became a professor of contemporary history after Charles-Olivier Carbonell, who was his doctoral supervisor. In 1979, he used that thesis to publish his first work dedicated to the iconography of scholarly heroes in French history during the Third Republic,

In 1988, Amalvi published a book entitled De l'art et la manière d'accommoder les héros de l'histoire de France, made up of seven different studies on the representation of heroes and of historical episodes in national history in the 19th and 20th centuries. His 1996 work Le goût du Moyen Âge examined the historiographical destiny of major figures from the Middle Ages and examined the public's interest in that period, which he associated initially with history teaching at primary level. In 2001, he published Répertoire des auteurs de manuels scolaires et de livres de vulgarisation historique de langue française de 1660 à 1960 He and nine other members of that committee (Marie-Laure Bernadac, Gilles Cantagrel, Nicole Garnier, Claude Gauvard, Robert Halleux, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Évelyne Lever, Pascal Ory and Jacques Perot) resigned in a joint open letter published in Le Monde in March 2018. He also protested against the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen's decision to remove Charles Maurras's name from the Livre des commémorations nationales 2018.

In 2004, he edited the Dictionnaire biographique des historiens français et francophones.

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