Catherine Duprat

Catherine Duprat (1936 – 13 January 2026) was a French historian specialising in the French Revolution and philanthropy. She was a professor at the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Life and career

In 1991, she graduated with the thesis "The time of philanthropists: the Parisian philanthropy of the Enlightenment to the July monarchy, thought and action", where she studied with Maurice Agulhon.

She worked with Michel Vovelle in the , especially during the bicentennial of the Revolution. From 1993 to 2000, she was head of the Institute and chair of the history of the French Revolution. She engaged in a panel discussion with Michel Foucault.

Duprat died on 13 January 2026, at the age of 89.

Works

• Le temps des philanthropes : la philanthropie parisienne des Lumières à la Monarchie de Juillet, Paris, Éd. du CTHS, 1993. ISBN 2735502775
• Usage et pratiques de la philanthropie : pauvreté, action sociale et lien social, à Paris, au cours du premier XIXe siècle, Paris, Association pour l'étude de l'histoire de la sécurité sociale, 1996–1997. ISBN 2905882360

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