Nicolas Beaupré

Nicolas Beaupré has a doctorate in history and is a university professor at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (Villeurbanne). A specialist in the contemporary history of France and Germany, he has published Le Rhin une géohistoire, Paris, La documentation française, 2005 and Ecrire en guerre, écrire la guerre, France-Allemagne 1914-1920, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2006, a work that won three prizes.

In 2012, he published with Belin Les Grandes Guerres (1914-1945), a work of nearly 1200 pages in the collection Histoire de France directed by Joël Cornette, as well as a work entitled Le Traumatisme de la Grande Guerre. Histoire franco-allemande de 1918 à 1933, published in German in 2009 and in French in 2012, which won the Franco-German Parliamentary Prize in 2013.