{"id":9880,"date":"2017-04-14T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/fr\/?page_id=9880"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:26:55","slug":"prix-guizot-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/prix-guizot\/prix-guizot-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 13 October 2016 at the Institut de France, the Prix Fran\u00e7ois Guizot-Institut de France was awarded to Alain Besan\u00e7on for his book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probl\u00e8mes religieux contemporains, Editions de Fallois.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u00abThe resurgence of religious concerns is reported everywhere. This is unquestionably true of Judaism and Islam, which are asserting themselves more clearly in France every year. Under the terms of the Concordat signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, Christianity was \u00abthe religion of the majority of French people\u00bb. Seen from the outside, it is in free fall. Do these religions still know what they are? What meaning do they give to their orthodoxy? By this word I mean the central point, guaranteed by the sacred texts and the opinion of the doctors, where each religion manifests itself in its coherence and its particular originality. My intention is not to deviate from orthodoxy, even when I am most critical. Do religions still have the capacity to grasp reality? In other books I have dealt with Russian Orthodoxy and Protestantism. In this one I look at Catholicism. How has it understood major contemporary events, such as communism and Islam?
On the porches of cathedrals, the Synagogue is represented by a woman wearing a blindfold. We shall see that the Church has often worn the same blindfold, or a different one. These questions are among the most serious, the most honourable, the most indispensable that contemporary man can and must ask himself. I have tried to deal with them as a historian\u00bb.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Born on 25 April 1932 in Paris, Alain Besan\u00e7on is a French historian, member of the Institut, director of studies at the EHESS, the Institut d'histoire sociale and formerly at the Nouvelle Initiative Atlantique. A graduate of the Institut d'\u00e9tudes politiques de Paris, with an agr\u00e9gation in history and a doctorate in history and humanities, Alain Besan\u00e7on was a secondary school teacher at the Lyc\u00e9e de Montpellier, the Lyc\u00e9e Carnot in Tunis and the Lyc\u00e9e Pasteur in Neuilly sur Seine.
In addition to his French academic career at the CNRS and the EHESS, he has taught at numerous foreign academic institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. Alain Besan\u00e7on has also been a member of the editorial board of Cahiers du monde russe since 1961 and of the journal Commentaires since 1986. He was an editorial writer for L'Express from 1983 to 1988 and regularly publishes articles in Le Figaro.
A Communist at the end of the Stalinist era, he moved on to a position of critical analysis of Communist ideology and, more generally, of the question of totalitarianism. Alain Besan\u00e7on is also a specialist in the history of Christianity. Having returned to Catholicism after several years in the Communist Party, he studies the resurgence of ancient heresies in the contemporary Church, as well as the influence exerted on the Catholic faith by socialism and Islam.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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St\u00e9phane Coste, Jean-Claude Casanova, Alain Besan\u00e7on and Gabriel de Broglie.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by Gabriel de Broglie, Chancellor of the Institut de France.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by Jean-Claude Casanova, President of the Jury and member of the Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by St\u00e9phane Coste, a descendant of Fran\u00e7ois Guizot and president of the Fran\u00e7ois Guizot Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by Alain Besan\u00e7on, winner of the Guizot Prize of the Institut.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Le 13 octobre 2016 \u00e0 l\u2019Institut de France, le Prix Fran\u00e7ois Guizot-Institut de France a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cern\u00e9 \u00e0 Alain Besan\u00e7on pour son ouvrage : Probl\u00e8mes religieux contemporains, Editions de Fallois. \u00ab On signale partout la r\u00e9surgence des pr\u00e9occupations religieuses. Cela est indiscutable du juda\u00efsme et de l\u2019islam qui s\u2019affirment en France chaque ann\u00e9e plus nettement. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9678,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13434,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9880\/revisions\/13434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}