Max Lagarrigue
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Max Lagarrigue, born in 1972 in Castelsarrasin
, is a French
historian
specialising in rural communism
and a journalist.
at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
and has published numerous papers including in the magazine Communism published by the Study Group and Democracy Observatory (GEODE) of the National Center for Scientific Research and a book on the charismatic leader of French rural communism Renaud Jean entitled Notebooks a Communist deputy (2001).
Working alongside the history of the Second World War, it was also interested in the Exodus and the history of refugees in 1940. Organizer of an international symposium on this subject, he led a reference book titled 1940, The decline of France. The European defeat(in 2001). These investigations have also led to writing and directing a documentary (The decline of France, May 1940) and a book about the exodus of the Belgians in the Southwest of France (2005).
He also organized an international symposium titled Manuel Azana and memory of the Spanish Civil Warin November 2004 Montauban
) working to preserve the memory of the late President of the Spanish Republic, Manual Azaña, a refugee who was buried in Montauban in November 1940. He co-founded in 2005, with actor and director François-Henri Soulié, the association "Présence de Manuel Azaña". which was been established to hold an annual celebration on the date of death of the late President of the Spanish Republic.
Wishing to promote regional contemporary history, he co-founded an association called Montauban Arkheia - History, memory of the twentieth century in South-West, which publishes a magazine of the same name. This review brings together a group of historians, academics, journalists, local scholars, teachers and students.
He is also since 2001 a journalist by involving local (Journal du Palais) prior to professionalize in 2006, within the regional daily La Depeche du Midi
.
Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Midi-Pyrénées region of France. The inhabitants are called Castelsarrasinois.-History:The first signs of life in the town is from 961...
, is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
specialising in rural communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and a journalist.
Biography
Lagarrigue taught the History of communismHistory of communism
The history of the political ideology of communism hypothetically stretches all the way from the Palaeolithic up until the present day. However, most modern forms of communism are based upon Marxism, a variant of the ideology formed by the sociologist Karl Marx in the 1840s...
at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
The Institut d'études politiques de Paris , simply referred to as Sciences Po , is a public research and higher education institution in Paris, France, specialised in the social sciences. It has the status of grand établissement, which allows its admissions process to be highly selective...
and has published numerous papers including in the magazine Communism published by the Study Group and Democracy Observatory (GEODE) of the National Center for Scientific Research and a book on the charismatic leader of French rural communism Renaud Jean entitled Notebooks a Communist deputy (2001).
Working alongside the history of the Second World War, it was also interested in the Exodus and the history of refugees in 1940. Organizer of an international symposium on this subject, he led a reference book titled 1940, The decline of France. The European defeat(in 2001). These investigations have also led to writing and directing a documentary (The decline of France, May 1940) and a book about the exodus of the Belgians in the Southwest of France (2005).
He also organized an international symposium titled Manuel Azana and memory of the Spanish Civil Warin November 2004 Montauban
Montauban
Montauban is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse....
) working to preserve the memory of the late President of the Spanish Republic, Manual Azaña, a refugee who was buried in Montauban in November 1940. He co-founded in 2005, with actor and director François-Henri Soulié, the association "Présence de Manuel Azaña". which was been established to hold an annual celebration on the date of death of the late President of the Spanish Republic.
Wishing to promote regional contemporary history, he co-founded an association called Montauban Arkheia - History, memory of the twentieth century in South-West, which publishes a magazine of the same name. This review brings together a group of historians, academics, journalists, local scholars, teachers and students.
He is also since 2001 a journalist by involving local (Journal du Palais) prior to professionalize in 2006, within the regional daily La Depeche du Midi
La Dépêche du Midi
La Dépêche du Midi is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in south-west France, with 17 editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region.The paper first appeared on 2 October 1870, when it was called La Dépêche de Toulouse...
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Historical
- « La France du repli, 1940 : refuge et solidarité », Migrance, hors-série sous la direction de Max Lagarrigue, Paris, 2000.
- “ L’affaire du Fau (mai 1944-1952)”, Montauban, Arkheia, 2000.
- “ Itinéraire d’un cadre en marge : Renaud Jean, 1939-1941 ”, Communisme (CNRS), Paris, Éditions de L'Âge d’Homme, 1999.
- “ Un communisme rural ? L’exemple lot-et-garonnais durant les années trente ”, Éditions les Amis du Vieux Nérac, Toulouse, 1998.
- “ Le PCF dans le Sud-Ouest : Centre et Périphérie ”, Communisme (CNRS), Paris, L'Age d’Homme, 1998.
- “ Le PCF de la France rurale des années trente à la Guerre froide (1930-1961) : l’exemple du Sud-ouest ”, Revue des Archives en Limousin, n° 12, Brive, 1998.
- “ La Confédération paysanne des Paysans Travailleurs (CGPT). Émergences, actions et difficultés d’une syndicalisme de “ classe ” dans les années trente ”, Le Festin, n° 25, Bordeaux, 1998.
Opinion, politics
- Les causes noires (Causes black),revue Le Meilleur des mondes, n° 2, Denoël, 2007.
- D'un totalitarisme à un autre...Les liaisons dangereuses de la Ligue des Droits de l'homme (LDH) (On totalitarianism to another ... The dangerous liaisons of the League of Human Rights), revue Le Meilleur des mondes, Denoël, n° 1, 2006.
- Pauvre Voltaire: le cas Thierry Meyssan (Poor Voltaire: the case Thierry Meyssan), revue Le Meilleur des mondes, Denoël, n° 1, 2006.
Books
- questions… La France sous l’Occupation, Montpellier, CNDP, octobre 2007 ISBN 978-2-86626-280-8
- 1940, la Belgique du repli. L’histoire d’une petite Belgique dans le Sud-Ouest de la France , Charleroi, Éditions du Hainaut, 2005 ISBN 2-930336-60-9
- Toulouse et sa région, Guide bleu Hachette, 2004
- Renaud Jean. Carnets d’un paysan député communiste, Biarritz, Atlantica, 531 p, 2001 ISBN 2-84394-244-6
- (dir.), La France du repli : l’Europe de la défaite, Toulouse, Privat, 2001, 384 p ISBN 2-7089-0528-7