Overview
A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, Jérémie Foa is an Associate Professor with the Habilitation to Direct Research at Aix Marseille Université and a member of the TELEMMe laboratory, honorary member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Institut Universitaire de France. A specialist in the Wars of Religion and mass violence in the 16th century, he recently published “Tous ceux qui tombent. Visages du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy,” Paris, La Découverte 2021, where he offers a microhistory of the massacre, a “bottom-up” investigation into both the victims and the ordinary murderers of the summer of 1572, in Paris and in the provinces. He is currently working on a project, in collaboration with Diane Roussel, on the siege of Paris (May-August 1590) which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. His next research project focuses on the environmental history of the Wars of Religion.