{{Short description|French writer and historian (1933–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Julliard | image = Jacques Julliard - Janvier 2012.jpg | caption = Julliard in 2012 | birth_name = Jacques Marius Frédéric Julliard | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|03|04}} | birth_place = Brénod, Ain, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|09|08|1933|03|04|df=y}} | death_place = Antony, France | other_names = | education = Lycée du Parc | alma_mater = École Normale Supérieure | occupation = Journalist and essayist | employer = ''Le Nouvel Obs''<br>''Marianne''<br>''Le Figaro'' | known_for = | spouse = Suzanne Julliard | children = 3 }}
'''Jacques Julliard''' (4 March 1933 – 8 September 2023) was a French historian, columnist and essayist, and a union leader. He was the author of numerous books.
==Life== ===Early years=== Jacques Julliard was born on 4 March 1933 in Brénod, Ain.{{sfn|Julliard, Jacques (1933-....) – BnF}}{{sfn|JULLIARD Jacques – Maitron}} His father and grandfather had both been mayors of the village where he was born.
Julliard prepared (''khâgne'') for entrance to an École normale supérieure at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, where he was influenced by two teachers close to Emmanuel Mounier. He was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1954 to study German, but changed over to history. Julliard passed his ''agrégation'' (teaching qualification) and after military service in Algeria became a secondary school teacher.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}}
===Union leader=== Julliard was vice president of National Union of Students of France (UNEF: Union Nationale des Étudiants de France) from 1955 to 1956. From 1962 to 1970, and again from 1972 to 1977 he was a member of the national office of the General Union of National Education (SGEN: Syndicat général de l'Éducation nationale) of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC: Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens).{{sfn|JULLIARD Jacques – Maitron}} From 1973 to 1976 he was a member of the confederate office of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT: Confédération française démocratique du travail).{{sfn|JULLIARD Jacques – Maitron}}
===Teacher=== While active in the unions, and later as a columnist, Julliard followed a career as an academic specialising in political and social issues.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard quitte «le Nouvel Obs» ...}} He began a thesis on the trade unionist Fernand Pelloutier while contributing to the magazine ''Esprit''. He was appointed a professor of history at the Bordeaux campus of Sciences Po in 1965. He taught at the Centre de formation des journalistes.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}} With Jacques Ozouf he co-founded the History department at the University of Vincennes.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}} In 1978 he was elected director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales).{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}}
===Columnist=== Pierre Andreu was a friend of Jacques Julliard and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, with whom he directed the ''Cahiers Georges Sorel''.{{sfn|Andreu, Pierre (1909-1987) – IMEC}}
In 1970 Julliard was introduced to Jean Daniel by André Gorz. Daniel offered him a position on the ''Nouvel Observateur'', where he would remain until 2010.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}} He was Director of Collection at the éditions du Seuil.{{sfn|JULLIARD Jacques – Maitron}} In November 2010 Julliard left the ''Nouvel Observateur'' to become a columnist with the weekly ''Marianne'', run by Maurice Szafran.{{sfn|Jacques Julliard quitte «le Nouvel Obs» ...}}
===Death=== Jacques Julliard died in Antony near Paris on 8 September 2023, at the age of 90.<ref>[https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/l-historien-et-journaliste-jacques-julliard-est-mort-20230908 L’historien et journaliste Jacques Julliard est mort] ''Le Figaro'' {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==Publications== Publications by Jacques Julliard include:{{sfn|Jacques Julliard – BnF}} {{refbegin}} *{{citation|title=La IVe République (1947-1958) |pages=379 |location=Paris|publisher=Calmann-Lévy |year=1968 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Pour le nouveau parti socialiste |type=Interview with Alain Savary |pages=186 |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1970 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Un Socialisme du possible|type=interview with F. Mitterrand |pages=125 |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1971 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Fernand Pelloutier et les origines du syndicalisme d'action directe |pages=559 |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1971 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La C.F.D.T. :[Confédération française démocratique du travail] :d'aujourd'hui |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1975 |author=Jacques Julliard|author2=Edmond Maire}} *{{citation|title=Contre la politique professionnelle |pages=161 |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1977 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Parler vrai : textes politiques |pages=169|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4812781g |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1979 |author=Michel Rocard |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le "Monde" de Beuve-Méry ou Le métier d'Alceste |pages=376 |location=Paris|publisher=Éditions du Seuil |year=1979 |author=Jean-Noël Jeanneney|author2=Jacques Julliard|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48012689}} *{{citation|title=La :IV :+Quatrième+ République 1947-1958|edition=revue et augmentée |pages=351 |location=Paris|publisher=le Livre de poche |year=1981 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La Faute à Rousseau|type=essai sur les conséquences historiques de l'idée de souveraineté populaire |pages=252 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1985 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Fernand Pelloutier et les origines du syndicalisme d'action directe |pages=294 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1985 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le président |pages=231 |location=Paris|publisher=Presses universitaires de France |year=1987 |author=Philippe Ardant |author2=Jacques Julliard |author3=Richard Rose}} *{{citation|title=La République du centre : la fin de l'exception française |pages=182 |location=Paris|publisher=Calmann-Lévy / Fondation Saint-Simon |year=1988 |author=François Furet |author2=Jacques Julliard |author3=Pierre Rosanvallon}} *{{citation|title=Autonomie ouvrière : études sur le syndicalisme d'action directe |pages=298 |location=Paris|publisher=Gallimard : Seuil |year=1988 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le Génie de la liberté |pages=182 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1990 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Chroniques du septième jour |pages=375 |type=collection of articles from "Nouvel Observateur", 1981-1990 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1991 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Ce fascisme qui vient |pages=201 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1994 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La droite et la gauche : qu'est-ce qui les distingue encore ? |pages=279 |location=Paris|publisher=R. Laffont : Grasset |year=1995 |author=Claude Imbert |author2=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Pour la Bosnie |pages=315 |type=collection of articles, mostly from "Nouvel observateur", 1991-1995 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1996 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=L'année des dupes |pages=366 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. du Seuil |year=1996 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La faute aux élites |pages=283 |location=Paris|publisher=Gallimard |year=1997 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=L'année des fantômes : journal 1997 |pages=396 |location=Paris|publisher=B. Grasset |year=1998 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La pensée unique : le vrai procès|pages=265 |location=Paris|publisher=Economica |year=1998 |author=Jean Foyer, Jacques Julliard, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Thierry Wolton}} *{{citation|title=La France contre les robots; suivi de Textes inédits |pages=284 |location=Paris|publisher=Librairie générale française / Jean-Loup Bernanos |year=1999 |author=Georges Bernanos |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Rupture dans la civilisation : le révélateur irakien |pages=83 |location=Paris|publisher=Gallimard |year=2003 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le choix de Pascal |pages=323 |location=Paris|publisher=Desclée de Brouwer |year=2003 |author=Benoît Chantre|author2=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Mircea Eliade : le prisonnier de l'histoire |pages=539 |location=Paris|publisher=Éd. la Découverte |year=2003 |author=Florin Turcanu |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Mauriac-Claudel : le désir et l'infini |pages=304 |location=Paris, Torino, Budapest |publisher=l'Harmattan / Jean-François Durand |year=2003 |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Que sont les grands hommes devenus ?|type=essai sur la démocratie charismatique |pages=160 |location=Paris|publisher=Saint-Simon : "Politique internationale" |year=2004 |author=Jacques Julliard|isbn=978-2262033415}} *{{citation|title=Le malheur français |pages=140 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year= 2005 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La reine du monde|type=essai sur la démocratie d'opinion |pages=125 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year=2007 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le choix de Pascal : entretiens avec Benoît Chantre|edition=Nouvelle revue et actualisée |pages=330 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year=2008 |author=Benoît Chantre|author2=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=L'argent, Dieu et le Diable : face au monde moderne avec Péguy, Bernanos, Claudel |pages=229 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year=2008 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Les gauches françaises : histoire, politique et imaginaire, 1762-2012 |pages=942 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year= 2012 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Les gauches françaises, 1762-2012 |volume=1 Histoire et politique|edition=Nouvelle |pages=904 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year= 2013 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Le choc Simone Weil |pages=133 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year=2014 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Les gauches françaises, 1762-2012 |volume=2 |pages=815 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |year=2014 |author=Grégoire Franconie|author2=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=La gauche et le peuple : lettres croisées |pages=317 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion|isbn=978-2-08-131313-2 |year=2014 |author=Jacques Julliard|author2=Jean-Claude Michéa}} *{{citation|title=Dieu, les affaires et nous : chronique d'un demi-siècle |pages=667 |type = collection of articles from "Le Figaro" and "Figaro magazine", 1981-2014 |location=Paris|publisher=Robert Laffont |year=2015 |author=Jean d' Ormesson |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=L'école est finie |pages=126 |location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion |isbn=978-2-0813-7896-4 |year=2015 |author=Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Dieu, les affaires et nous : chronique d'un demi-siècle |pages=667 |type=collection of articles from "Le Figaro" and "Figaro magazine", 1981-2014 |location=Paris|publisher=le Grand livre du mois |year=2015 |author=Jean d' Ormesson |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} *{{citation|title=Réflexions sur la violence (1908)|type=Apologie de la violence prolétarienne |pages=846 |location=Paris|publisher=Pocket |year=2016 |author=Jean d' Ormesson |others=preface by Jacques Julliard}} {{refend}}
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==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{citation |language=fr |ref={{harvid|Andreu, Pierre (1909-1987) – IMEC}} |title=Andreu, Pierre (1909-1987) |work=IMEC |date=18 April 2010 |publisher=IMEC: Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine |url=http://www.imec-archives.com/fonds/andreu-pierre/ |access-date=7 August 2017 }} *{{citation|language=fr|ref={{harvid|Jacques Julliard – BnF}}|title=Jacques Julliard|publisher=BnF: Bibliotheque nationale de France|url=http://data.bnf.fr/11909221/jacques_julliard/|accessdate=22 October 2017}} *{{citation|language=fr|ref={{harvid|Jacques Julliard – La Procure}}|title=Jacques Julliard|work=La Procure|url=http://www.laprocure.com/biographies/Julliard-Jacques%20/0-1254405.html|accessdate=23 October 2017}} *{{citation|language=fr|ref={{harvid|Jacques Julliard quitte «le Nouvel Obs» ...}}|title=Jacques Julliard quitte "le Nouvel Obs" pour "Marianne"|journal=Liberation|date=17 November 2010|url=http://www.liberation.fr/medias/2010/11/17/jacques-julliard-quitte-le-nouvel-obs-pour-marianne_694278|accessdate=23 October 2017|archive-date=23 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023174702/http://www.liberation.fr/medias/2010/11/17/jacques-julliard-quitte-le-nouvel-obs-pour-marianne_694278|url-status=dead}} *{{citation|language=fr|ref={{harvid|Julliard, Jacques (1933-....) – BnF}}|title=Julliard, Jacques (1933-....)|work=BnF: Bibliotheque nationale de France|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11909221j|accessdate=23 October 2017}} *{{citation|language=fr|ref={{harvid|JULLIARD Jacques – Maitron}}|title=JULLIARD Jacques|work=Maitron-en-ligne|publisher=Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier|url=http://maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article137573|accessdate=23 October 2017}} {{refend}} {{authority control}}
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