The jury for the grand prize for political biography crowned Lorraine of MeauxSaturday November 16, on the occasion of the Le Touquet book fair, for his work Germaine Tillion, A certain idea of resistance, published by Editions Perrin.
By rewarding Lorraine de Meaux, the jury “wished to salute a very fine work by a historian which allows us to better understand an admirable woman, whose destiny intersects with that of France in the twentieth century, from the discovery of the Aurès in the 1920s to the Resistance and the deportation then to the Algerian War »he said in a press release.
Germaine Tillion, ethnologist and resistance fighter
Born in 1975, the laureate has a doctorate in history and a specialist in modern Russia. With the biography of Germaine Tillion, she therefore goes off the beaten track to retrace the journey of the French ethnologist, heiress of Marcel Mauss. She recounts her childhood in a Catholic family, up to her missions in Africa in the 1970s, including her deportation during the Second World War to the Ravensbrück camp.
Chaired by Anne Méaux, the jury for the grand prize for political biography at Le Touquet Paris-Plage was also composed of Marie-Louise Antoni, Patricia Barbizet, Nicolas Baverez, Dominique Besnehard, Anna Cabana, Arlette Chabot, Pierre Cornut-Gentille, François Ewald, Anne Lauvergeon, Joseph Macé-Scaron, Muriel Mayette-Holtz, Catherine Nay et Alain Gérard-Slama.
Created in 2007 by Patrick-Olivier Picourt et Anne Méauxand endowed with 10,000 euros by Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, the grand prize for political biography aims to distinguish, each year, a past or present political biography written in French or translated. In 2023, the distinction was awarded to Jean-Luc Barre pour De Gaulle, A Life – Volume 1: Nobody’s Man (1890-1944)at Grasset.
