Jean-Clément Martin

Jean-Clément Martin , born on 31 January 1948, is a French historian, a specialist in the French Revolution, Counter-revolution and the War in the Vendée.

Biography Jean-Clément Martin was a pupil of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. From 2000 to 2008 he was the director of the , connected to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Since then he has been professor emeritus.

Research on the French Revolution

He studies the Vendée as a lieu de mémoire or memory space. His research focusses on understanding violence, the contribution of gender history and the role of religion and religiosity in the revolutionary process.

He refuses to consider the operations ordered in Vendée by the National Convention, either the infernal columns or the drownings at Nantes, as genocide. For him, "il y a bien eu des crimes de guerre et des batailles abominables, c'est clair, mais en aucun cas un génocide" [there were war crimes and abominable battles, that's clear, but in no way genocide] during the Vendée wars, the French Revolution having been civil war. Camisards et Vendéens. Deux guerres françaises, deux mémoires vivantes, with Philippe Joutard, Nîmes, Alcide éditions, 2018, 144 p. La Vendée de la Mémoire 1800-2018, Paris, Perrin, 2019, 429 p., (ISBN 9782262081409) Un aller simple pour la Révolution. Le voyage inutile (novel), self-published, 2020 Les Vendéens, audio book, Frémeaux et Associés, 2020, (EAN 3561302556826). L'Exécution du roi, 21 janvier 1793: la France entre République et Révolution, Paris, Perrin, 2021, 411 p. (ISBN 978-2-262-06988-9) Infographie de la Révolution française, Paris, Passés composés, 2021, 127 p. (ISBN 978-2-37933-110-7) La Révolution n'est pas terminée: Interventions, 1981-2021, Paris, Passés composés, 2022, 207 p. (ISBN 978-2-37933-777-2) Penser les échecs de la Révolution française, Paris, Tallandier, 2022, 250 p. (ISBN 979-10-210-4909-3) La Grande Peur de juillet 1789, Tallandier, 2024 50 objets racontent la Révolution française, Paris, Eyrolles, 2025, 206 p. (ISBN 978-2-416-01753-7) La révolution inachevée des femmes. France 1770-1820, Malakoff, Armand Colin, 2025, 317 p. (ISBN 978-2-200-63957-0)