Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie

Professor Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie was Emeritus Professor of History at the Collège de France. He was a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancient regime, particularly the history of the peasantry. He had a distinguished career, serving as Administrateur Général of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1987-94); member of the Institute (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences); Agrégé of the University, Doctor of Letters; Commander of the Legion of Honor (1996); and taught at the universities of Montpellier, the Sorbonne, and Paris VII. Ladurie was the author of many historical works, including Les Paysans de Languedoc (1966), Histoire du Climat depuis l’An Mil (second ed., 1983), Montaillou, village occitan (1975), Le Territoire de l’Historien (2 vols., 1973, 1978), Le Carnaval de Romans, 1579-1580 (1980), L’Etat royal(1987), L’Ancien Regime (1991), Le Siècle de Platter (1995), and Saint-Simon, le systeme de la Cour (1997).