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Aurelien LIGNEREUX

University Professor

Contemporary History

Laboratory(ies): LUHCIE

Keywords

  • History of expatriation
  • History of civil servants
  • Police

Responsibilities

  • Co-holder of the Chair in History, Gendarmerie, Security & Territory (National Gendarmerie Research Center)

Current Projects

"The Children of the Century." The warrior matrix of a generation (1792-1815)

The project aims to explore the wars of the Revolution and the Empire from a child's perspective, both in terms of daily life—including changes in children's games—and in the Education patriotic ideals.

Publications

Imperial and Imperialized Civil Servants: A Social History of the Imperial State

Aurélien Lignereux

Doina Pasca Harsanyi and Alexander Mikaberidze (eds.). *Napoleonic Governance and the Integration of Europe: Managing the Empire, Winning the Peace?*, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, *War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850*, 978-3-031-96466-4

Revolutionary Police Forces: How the Revolution Is Shaping the Police

Aurélien Lignereux

Félix Breteau, Anne de Mathan, Thomas Hippler, Vincent Milliot, and Corentin Sire (eds.). Police and Revolutions in Western Europe: From the 1780s to the End of the 20th Century, Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 173–178, 2025

Contemporary Violence

Aurélien Lignereux

Edited by Eric Anceau. *A New History of France*, Passés Composés, pp. 243–51, 2025

A Force of Circumstance? The Mobile Gendarmerie in 19th-Century France

Aurélien Lignereux

Édouard Ebel, Laurent López, Jean-Noël Luc (eds.). Mobile Gendarmerie and Law Enforcement, Sorbonne University Press, pp. 61–72, 2025

France: Revolution and Empire, 1788–1815

Aurélien Lignereux

Armand Colin, 568 pp., 2024, Portail, 9782200626150

Thesis supervision

Nicolas NURDIN

Being a gendarme during the Restoration: the example of Sergeant Bonne.

Alban GIRAULT

Dealing with Floods in France: Perceptions and Public Policy (1830s–1910)

Cyprien GANDILLON

The National Gendarmerie in the Defense of French Territory During the Cold War, 1950s–1990s.

Pierre ARNOUX

A Risorgimento in the Shadows: Intelligence in Austrian-Ruled Italy (1815–1866)

Pascal GATEAU

Reflections on Counterinsurgency on National Territory: The Evolution of the Military Response to the Vendée Uprisings from 1792 to 1832