Pierre Nora is Editorial Director of Editions Gallimand.He is editor of the journal Le Debat and is Directeur D~Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,Paris.
This acclaimed work of the 1980~s and 1990~s which took over a decade to assemble and is composed of contributions by scores of expert authors,sets out to describe how the French people have "constructed" their history through symbols,allusions,and associations,and then have subsequently shifted that constructed memory into the modern public consciousness.
