research and is devoid of the usual scholarly apparatus". Private life Nora is an Ashkenazi Jew. In 2001, on the occasion of his induction into the Académie française in the wake of the death of the novelist Michel Droit, he had his ceremonial sword inscribed with the Star of David to attest to his feeling that 'the Jewish contribution to the world belongs to things of the mind more than to weaponry. Because I shall consider myself Jewish as long as somewhere a Jew is threatened because of his identity.' He was married briefly to art historian and curator Françoise Cachin, and had a 40-year extra-conjugal relationship with Gabrielle van Zuylen, who died in 2010. Since 2012, he has lived with French journalist Anne Sinclair, ex-wife of journalist Ivan Levai and of former politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He has a son, now a biologist in San Francisco, by a third companion. Bibliography 1961: , prefaced by Charles-André Julien (Julliard) 1962: issue 463 1970–1979: (Armand Colin) 1973: (Gallimard) 1987: (Gallimard) 1984–1992: (Gallimard), abridged translation, Realms of Memory, Columbia University Press, 1996–1998 1999: Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 1: The State (University of Chicago Press) 2006: Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 2: Space (University of Chicago Press) 2009: Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 3: Legacies (University of Chicago Press) 2010: Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories (University of Chicago Press) See also Memory space (social science) Notes Citations Sources External links L'Académie française Biographical note of the l'Académie française Catalogue of the Collection Archives of Gallimard Julliard (founded by Pierre Nora in 1964) 1931 births 20th-century French historians 20th-century French Jews Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French male non-fiction writers Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Jewish historians Living people Lycée Carnot alumni Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Members of the Académie Française Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Writers from Paris