{{Short description| French historian and political scientist (1927– 1987)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Aline Coutrot | image = Aline Coutrot.jpg | caption = Aline Coutrot | birth_date = 17 June 1927 | death_date = {{death date and age|1987|10|20|1927|06|17}} | awards = Prix Broquette-Gonin (1967) | birth_place = Paris, France | education = {{plainlist| *Collège Sévigné *Sorbonne University }} | doctoral_advisor = René Rémond | discipline = History, political science | workplaces = Institute of Political Studies, Paris }} '''Aline Coutrot''' (17 June 1927 – 20 October 1987) was a French historian and political scientist.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |last1=Louise |first1=Thérèse |title=COUTROT, Aline |url=https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article21010 |website=maitron.fr |access-date=21 July 2023 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105037/https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article21010 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her research works and publications have mainly focused on the relationship between religion and politics in the 20th century, as well as on youth movements in France.<ref name="auto">{{cite book|last= Pomfret|first= David M.|year= 2004|title= Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890–1940|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OZmGAAAAIAAJ|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= Leuven|publisher= Ashgate|page= 270|isbn= 978-0-754-60930-8|archive-date= 21 July 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105036/https://books.google.com/books?id=OZmGAAAAIAAJ|url-status= live}}</ref> In 1967, she received the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) Award for her work ''Religious Forces in French Society''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aline COUTROT |url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/aline-coutrot |website=academie-francaise.fr |access-date=21 July 2023 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105040/https://www.academie-francaise.fr/aline-coutrot |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Biography== Born on 17 June 1927 in Paris, Aline Coutrot was the daughter of Coutrot Jacques (1898 – 1965) and Seringe Georgette (1905 – 1985), both of whom came from Seine-et-Marne, Northern France.<ref name="auto1" /> Coutrot was the eldest of five children.<ref name="auto1" />
She completed her school education at the Collège Sévigné, a private school in Paris. She later continued her higher education at the Sorbonne University. In 1972, she became an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, where she spent her entire professional career in teaching politics and religion.<ref name="auto1"/> In 1983, she obtained a doctorate in political science under the supervision of René Rémond, with whom she published a number of books and research papers.<ref>{{cite book|last= Hellman|first= John|year=2002|title= Communitarian Third Way: Alexandre Marc and Ordre Nouveau, 1930–2000|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FktLgT8B2yQC|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= Montreal|publisher= McGill-Queen's University Press | page=260| isbn=978-0-773-52376-0}}</ref>
In a pioneering contribution, unlike other writings on youth mobilization that focused on the individual movements at that time, she took a broader view of youth movements.<ref name="auto"/> She analyzed the role of religion and the impact of war on youth movements in French society.<ref>{{cite book|last= Whitney|first= Susan|date= 11 September 2009|title= Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=H_RnlqMaEloC|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= Durham, North Carolina|publisher= Duke University Press|page= 252|isbn= 978-0-822-39156-2|archive-date= 21 July 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105045/https://books.google.com/books?id=H_RnlqMaEloC|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Reynolds|first= Sian|year= 1996|title= France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EXDVCuW9xD8C|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= London|publisher= Psychology Press|page= 51|isbn= 978-0-415-12736-3|archive-date= 21 July 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105043/https://books.google.com/books?id=EXDVCuW9xD8C|url-status= live}}</ref> For instance, according to Coutrot, the JOC didn't give its members any particular “political direction, but educated them in an ethic of commitment and social responsibility.”<ref>{{cite book|last= Horn|first= Gerd-Rainer|year= 2001|title= Left Catholicism, 1943–1955: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7gkUlNqDNm4C|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= Leuven|publisher= Leuven University Press|page= 70|isbn= 978-9-058-67093-9|archive-date= 21 July 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105036/https://books.google.com/books?id=7gkUlNqDNm4C|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/>
Later in her career, she took an interest in the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission.<ref>{{cite book|last= Imlay|first= Talbot C.|date= 24 January 2007|title= The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3E5_AgAAQBAJ|access-date= 21 July 2023|location= Oxfordshire|publisher= Routledge|page= NA|isbn= 978-1-134-21087-9|archive-date= 21 July 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230721105041/https://books.google.com/books?id=3E5_AgAAQBAJ|url-status= live}}</ref>
She died on 20 October 1987 in Paris.
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