Mathilde Larrère

Mathilde Larrère (born in Paris, 19 October 1970) is a French historian and activist. She is a specialist in revolutionary movements and policing in 19th century France.

Biography

Background and training She is the daughter of Raphaël Larrère, an agricultural engineer, and Catherine Larrère, a philosopher. Mathilde Larrère is a former student of the (class of 1991). She won the agrégation d'histoire in 1994. She was awarded a PhD in history (2000) on defending her thesis, "The Paris National Guard under the July Monarchy, power at the end of the rifle?", completed under the direction of Alain Corbin. She has also taken courses as an auditor at the École pratique des hautes études.

She asserts a politicised approach to history, saying: "You don't say false things because you have a politicised approach, as long as you are scientifically sound and don't betray the sources. I'm showing my colours." ("").

She also rejects the concept of neutrality in history: "To say that history is neutral is a great scam to pass off right-wing history" ("). She was a member of the Comité de vigilance face aux usages publics de l'histoire (CVUH). The CVUH is an association of historians founded to monitor the public use of history for collective memory purposes, particularly by politicians.

She joined the social network Twitter in 2013, where she posts historical ephemera in the form of "mini-courses". and gained notoriety by criticising some of Manuel Valls' positions, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron concerning various aspects of French history such as colonisation or the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts.

Politics and trade unions Mathilde Larrère joined the Left Party in 2012. During the 2014 municipal elections in Paris, she was a candidate on the Left Party list of the 12th arrondissement. She left the party in January 2016, after "political disagreements".

She was one of the first signatories calling for the demonstration against Islamophobia on 10 November 2019.

In the 2022 presidential election, she supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then indicated that she would vote against Marine Le Pen in the second round. In May 2022, she joined the parliament of the New Ecological and Social People's Union.

Publications

2013 . (Director of publication) 2016 . 2018 (with Aude Lorriaux) 2019 (with Laurence de Cock and Guillaume Mazeau) 2019 2020 (with Laurence de Cock) 2021 Rage against the machisme 2022 Guns and Roses 2022 Le Puy du Faux - Enquête sur un parc qui déforme l'histoire

Documentary interviews

2017 (Laurent Turcot) 2019 Nota Bonus (1 episode) 2019 (dir. Jonathan Duong) 2020 The Monopoly of Violence

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