Pierre-Marie Dioudonnat


Pierre-Marie Dioudonnat is a French publisher, historian and political scientist.
Trained in prosopography, he specialises in family history. His name is closely associated with the Encyclopédie de la fausse noblesse et de la noblesse d'apparence, republished in 2002 and 2010 as Le Simili-nobiliaire français, which gathers data on 6,000 surviving French families whose present-day surname links to a false title of nobility.

Life

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He gained a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1965 and in 1972 added a doctorate in political science
He stood for the National Front as a successor to Alexandra Bourgoin in the 8th 'circonscription' for Seine-Saint-Denis. His wife is Sabine Bragadir, with whom he wrote Dictionnaire des 10 000 dirigeants politiques français.

Works

Je suis partout, 1930–1944. Les maurrassiens devant la tentation fasciste, La Table ronde, 1973Encyclopédie de la fausse noblesse et de la noblesse d’apparence, Sedopols, republished from 1976 to 1997 Les Ivresses de l’Église de France : les évêques et la société 1801-1976, Le Sagittaire, 1976 Dictionnaire des 10 000 dirigeants politiques français, avec Sabine Bragadir, Sedopols, 1977L’argent nazi à la conquête de la presse française, 1940-1944, Jean Picollec, 1981Les 700 rédacteurs de "Je suis partout", Sedopols, 1993 Le Simili-nobiliaire français, Sedopols, 2002

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