Jean-Pierre Chaline (18 December 1939, Orléans), is a French contemporary historian, a specialist of the history of the French Third Republic.
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Biography
The father of Olivier Chaline, a historian specializing in Central Europe in the modern era. and husband of Nadine-Josette Chaline, herself an historian, Jean-Pierre Chaline is emeritus professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He is also president of the "Société de l'histoire de Normandie", the Amis des Monuments Rouennais, a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen and director of the journal Études normandes.
Jean-Pierre Chaline was awarded several prizes by the Académie française:
Prix Alfred Née in 1984 for Les bourgeois de Rouen. Une élite urbaine au XIXe siècle
Prix René Petiet in 1987 for L’Affaire Noiret
Prix Biguet in 1996 for Sociabilité et érudition. Les Sociétés savantes en France.
On 14 December 2015, he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.



