Yves Lemoine
Yves Lemoine (10 June 1946 – 19 February 2021) was a French magistrate and historian.
Biography
Born at Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire in the Nièvre department, Yves Lemoine studied history and geography at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. He interrupted his history studies to study law in Dijon, where he obtained his master's degree in 1972. That same year, he passed the bar exam and the entrance exam to the National School for the Judiciary.
He was appointed investigating judge in Nevers from 1975 to 1978, then judge in Bobigny from 1978 to 1983, and judge in Paris from 1983 to 1993. He was appointed counselor at the Amiens Court of Appeal from 1993 to 1999. In 1999, he was appointed counselor at the Court of Appeal of Rouen.
In 1981, he was a technical advisor in the cabinet of Raymond Courrière, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister in charge of repatriates. He was a member of the Magistrate's Union.
He has published numerous articles, notably in the newspapers Le Monde and Libération, on issues of justice, law and politics: the police and police violence, criminal procedure, the Civil Solidarity Pact and the recognition of homosexual couples, criminal justice and "madness," the commemoration of World War I, etc.
He retired on January 7, 2005, due to disability. Yves Lemoine died in Paris at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine, following a case of COVID-19.
Writings
In 1979, he met Fernand Braudel who involved him in his work for his last opus: Identité de la France, a work that remains unfinished. Influenced by the school of ethno-history and closely linked to Pierre Lamaison, who directed it at the time, he contributed to the Généalogie de l'Europe published by Hachette in 1994.
In 1989, he was general curator of the exhibition organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs La diplomatie française pendant la Révolution.
His first work combining historical and legal reflection was published in 1991 by Flammarion under the title La Loi, le citoyen, le juge. His studies are now marked by Braudelian "durations" and by "genealogies" inspired by the work of Pierre Lamaison linking ethnology and history.
He contributed to the journal Histoire rurale directed by Isac Chiva, director of the social anthropology laboratory at the Collège de France. His research focused on genealogical history and client relationships in the "great families", work that he carried out in conjunction with the American historian Sharon Kettering and her classic Patrons, Brokers and clients in seventeenth-century France. This collaboration would inspire Malesherbes, biographie d'un homme dans sa lignée ("Malesherbes, biography of a man in his lineage") and especially La Grande Robe, le mariage et l'argent, histoire d'une grande famille parlementaire, with a preface by Bruno Neveu, President of the École pratique des hautes études, while Yves Lemoine was, from 1995 to 1998, a member of the History Commission of the Collège de France. These two works are published by Michel de Maule, where Lemoine directs the Historical Studies collection.
Finally, in 2010 he published a brief intellectual history of Fernand Braudel with Michel de Maule: Fernand Braudel, ambition et inquiétude d'un historien.
