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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arlette_Farge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arlette_Farge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlette_Farge > Source revision: 1352006873 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|French historian|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Expand French|Arlette Farge|date=December 2016|topic=bio}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Arlette Farge''' (born 14 September 1941){{Cite web|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11902257v.public|title=BnF Catalogue général|last=Farge|first=Arlette|website=catalogue.bnf.fr|access-date=2016-12-09}} is a French historian who specialises in the study of the 18th century,{{cite journal|last1=Darnton|first1=Robert|title=The Good Way to Do History|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/01/09/good-way-history/|journal=The New York Review of Books|date=9 January 2014 |volume=61 |issue=1 |accessdate=10 December 2016}} a director of research at the [CNRS](/source/Centre_national_de_la_recherche_scientifique), attached to the centre for historical research at the [EHESS](/source/School_for_Advanced_Studies_in_the_Social_Sciences). == Life and career == Arlette is the youngest of three siblings born into a modest family which came to [Charleville](/source/Charleville-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res) because of the needs of [World War II](/source/World_War_II).{{Cite news|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/voix-nue/arlette-farge-15#|title=Arlette Farge (1/5)|newspaper=France Culture|language=fr-FR|access-date=2016-12-09}} After attending the [Lycée Hélène Boucher](/source/Lyc%C3%A9e_H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Boucher_(Tremblay-en-France)) in Paris, she studied to become a [juge des enfants](/source/%3Afr%3AJuge_des_enfants), a magistrate specialised in juvenile law, then changed her focus to take an advanced diploma [(DEA)](/source/%3Afr%3ADipl%C3%B4me_d'%C3%A9tudes_approfondies) in legal and institutional history. With no post available, she left France in 1969 to do her thesis at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) where she bore witness to the activism of [African-American](/source/African-American) students during the [Civil Rights Movement](/source/Civil_Rights_Movement) and [American feminists](/source/Feminism_in_the_United_States). On her return to France, she started to prepare her doctorate in modern history on ''Le vol d'aliment à Paris au XVIIIe siècle'' (The Theft of Food in Paris in the 18th century), defended in 1974 under the supervision of [Robert Mandrou](/source/Robert_Mandrou), a pupil of [Lucien Febvre](/source/Lucien_Febvre), and the pioneer of the [history of mentalities](/source/history_of_mentalities). She then specialised in the study of the poorest communities of the capital. In 2016 she was awarded the [Dan David Prize](/source/Dan_David_Prize).{{Cite web|title=Prof. Arlette Farge, 2016 Dan David Prize Laureate|url=https://www.goodreads.com/videos/161479-prof-arlette-farge-2016-dan-david-prize-laureate|access-date=2020-10-25|website=Goodreads}}{{Cite web|last=Prize|first=Dan David|title=Arlette Farge|url=https://www.dandavidprize.org/laureates/2016/past-social-history-new-directions/arlette-farge|access-date=2020-10-25|website=www.dandavidprize.org|language=en-gb}} With her research team from the [https://ccrh.revues.org/3066 "groupe d'histoire des femmes"] (women's history group), she next worked on the themes of popular identity, gender relations and historical narrative in the 18th century.{{Cite journal |last=Martin-Fugier |first=Anne |date=2005 |title=Le groupe d’histoire des femmes au Centre de Recherches Historiques |url=https://journals.openedition.org/ccrh/3066 |journal=Les Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques. Archives |language=fr |issue=36 |doi=10.4000/ccrh.3066 |issn=0990-9141}} After having co-hosted the show ''Les Lundis de l’histoire'' (History Mondays) on [France Culture](/source/France_Culture), she regularly collaborates on ''La Fabrique de l’Histoire'' (The History Factory), a broadcast from the same radio station. ''The Allure of the Archives'' is a regarded historiographical classic and has been published in 51 editions worldwide since 1981 in seven languages. It provides a vivid and intimate insight into the lives of the poor in pre-revolutionary France, particularly women, as well as into the world of archival research. [Michel Foucault](/source/Michel_Foucault) inspired her to analyse the mechanisms of power. With him, she co-edited a volume that analysed [lettres de cachet](/source/lettres_de_cachet) against unruly family members such as those engaged in [adultery](/source/adultery) or [domestic violence](/source/domestic_violence) against their spouse during the reign of [Louis XIV](/source/Louis_XIV), ''Le Desordre des Familes: Lettres de Cachet des Archives de la Bastille au XVII siecle'' (1982). In 2017, this was translated into English as ''Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives'' (2017) http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/book/disorderly-families ==Bibliography== * ''Vivre dans la rue à Paris au XVIIIe'' siècle (1979) * ''Le désordre des familles: lettres de cachet des Archives de la Bastille au XVIIe siecle'' (1982) (Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton: ''Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters From the Bastille Archives'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) (2017) * ''Le Goût de l'archive/ The Allure of the Archives'' (1989) * ''The vanishing children of Paris: rumor and politics before the French Revolution'' (1991) * ''Dire et mal dire: l'opinion publique au XVIIIe siècle'' (1992) * ''Fragile lives: violence, power and solidarity in eighteenth century Paris'' (1993) * ''Subversive words: public opinion in eighteenth century France'' (1994) * ''Foucault against himself'' (2015) * ''Disorderly families: infamous letters from the Bastille Archives'' (2016) == External links == * [https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-fabrique-de-l-histoire ''La Fabrique de l'Histoire''] and [https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-lundis-de-l-histoire ''Les Lundis de l'histoire''] on which she is a co-host ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Farge, Arlette}} Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:French women historians Category:20th-century French historians Category:21st-century French historians Category:Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Arlette Farge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlette_Farge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlette_Farge?action=history)). 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