Jean_Dumont_(historian)

Jean Dumont (historian)

Jean Dumont (historian)

French historian and publisher

Jean Dumont (10 October 1923, in Lyon – July 2001) was a French historian and publisher.

Career overview

Dumont graduated in history and philosophy at the University of Lyon and in law in Paris. His specialty was Church history; he also studied Spanish social and religious history of the 15th and 16th centuries. He worked as editor for several publishing companies such as Amiot-Dumont (1947 – 1959), Grasset, François Beauval, Club des Amis du Livre and Famot.

Works

  • Erreurs sur le "Mal Français", ou le trompe-l'oeil de M. Peyrefitte (1979).
  • Proces Contradictoire de l'Inquisition Espagnole (1983).
  • L'Église au Risque de l'Histoire (1984; rep. in 2002 with a preface by Pierre Chaunu).
  • La Révolution Française ou Les Prodiges du Sacrilège (1984).
  • Pourquoi nous ne Célèbrerons pas 1789 (1987).
  • Petit Voyage en Théomarxie: Bref Examen Critique de "Théo", la "Nouvelle Encyclopédie Catholique" (1990).
  • L'Heure de Dieu sur le Nouveau Monde (1991).
  • L'Incomparable Isabelle la Catholique (1992).
  • La Vraie Controverse de Valladolid (1995).
  • Lepante, l'Histoire Étouffée (1997).

Miscellany

  • Les Coups d'Etats (1963).
  • Une Croix sur le Nouveau Monde (1992).
  • "Les Causes de la Persécution Religieuse." In: L’Envers des Droits de l’Homme (1993).
  • "Aux Origines de la Laïcité, les Zones d'Ombre de l'Histoire de France." In: Qui a Peur du Baptême de Clovis? (1997).
  • La Croix et le Croissant (2001).
  • Repentance Pourquoi Nous Ne Demandons Pas Pardon (2003).
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