Pascal Ory

Who is Pascal Ory?

Pascal Ory is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his masters dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. He is one of those who in the 1970s contributed to the better definition of cultural history.

He is a professor at the Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is president of the Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle and regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique.

Involved in politics, he is a municipal councillor, formerly an ally to the mayor of Georges Lemoine, and head of the socialist list in the municipal elections of March 2001, in the city of Chartres.