Andrew Hussey OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born 1963) is a cultural historian and biographer, born in Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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. He lectured in French at the University of Huddersfield

University of Huddersfield

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 in the mid to late 1990s. He was a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and since 2006 he has been the Head of French and Comparative Studies at University of London Institute in Paris

University of London Institute in Paris

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. He has written on French social and political movements, particularly the May 1968 riots in France

France

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, and the Situationists, headed by Guy Debord

Guy Debord

Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...

 and Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines . After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970...

. He also regularly contributes to The Observer

The Observer

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In 2007 he provided the foreword to How to Enjoy Paris in 1842, written by Francis Hervé

Francis Hervé

Francis Hervé, Esquire was a French born British artist and travel writer.He traveled in the Levant in about 1833. Hervé was commissioned by philhellene British General Richard Church to produce a series of portraits of the leaders of the Greek War of Independence...

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Hussey also presents television documentaries, amongst which is "France on a Plate", first broadcast in December 2009. In this programme, he discusses the culinary history of France in relation to its political and social history.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to UK/France cultural relations.

Publications

• The Inner Scar: The Mysticism Of Georges Bataille (2000)
• The Game Of War: The Life And Death Of Guy Debord (2001)
• The Beast At Heaven’s Gate: Georges Bataille And The Art Of Transgression (2006)
• Paris: The Secret History (2006)