Arlette Jouanna (born Arlette Galinat, 1936 – died 29 January 2022) was a French historian and academic. She was professor emerita at l’Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III).[1][2] She was a member of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales (CRISES). She specialised in the political and social history of sixteenth-century France, especially the history of the nobility and the French Wars of Religion.
In 2008 she won the Prix François Guizot for her book La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat (The St Bartholomew's Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State) (Paris, Gallimard, 2007), awarded by the Conseil général du Calvados.[5]
In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand for her book Le Pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté (Absolute Power: the Birth of the Royal Political Imaginary).[6][7]
In 2018 the Prix littéraire Montaigne de Bordeaux awarded her a Special Prize for her biography of Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne (Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2017).[9]
Selected publications
Le devoir de révolte. La noblesse française et la gestation de l'État moderne: 1559–1661. Fayard, 1989
La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat.Gallimard, 2007
Le pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté.Gallimard, 2013
Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State (trans. Joseph Bergin). Manchester University Press, 2013