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François Furet

| birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = | death_place = Figeac, France | alma_mater = University of Paris | known_for = Historian of the French Revolution | image = }} François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago.

Furet was elected to the Académie française in March 1997, just three months before he died in July. Provided by Wikipedia