Jérémie Foa

A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, JÉRÉMIE FOA is an Associate Professor at Aix-Marseille University, a member of the TELEMMe laboratory, and an honorary member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Institut Universitaire de France. A specialist in the Wars of Religion and mass violence in the 16th century, he recently published Tous ceux qui tombent. Visages du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, Paris, La Découverte 2021, in which he proposes a micro-history of the massacre, an investigation “from below” of both the victims and the ordinary murderers of the summer of 1572, in Paris and in the provinces.  Last book published : Survivre, une histoire des guerres de Religion, Paris, Seuil, 2024.