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André Zysberg

Died
December 8, 2024
Age
77 years

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André Zysberg (6 August 1947 – 8 December 2024) was a French historian and academic. He specialised in the maritime history of the early modern period.

In 1987, he was invited to the Antenne 2 [fr] talk show Apostrophes to discuss his book on galley slaves. In 2017, he appeared in an episode of the France 2 series Secrets d'Histoire covering Ismail Ibn Sharif titled Moulay Ismaïl : le Roi-Soleil des mille et une nuits.

Zysberg died on 8 December 2024, at the age of 77.

Publications

  • Les galériens : vies et destins de 60 000 forçats sur les galères de France 1680-1748 (1987)
  • Gloire et misère des galères (1988)
  • Les Forçats - 1841 (1992)
  • L'Essor des marines de guerres européennes - vers 1680-vers 1790 (1996)
  • Le bagne de Brest 1749-1800 : naissance d'une institution carcérale au siècle des Lumières (2000)
  • Venise La Sérénissime et la mer (2000)
  • Marseille au temps des galères (2001)
  • Nouvelle histoire de la France moderne. 5. La monarchie des Lumières 1715-1786 (2002)
  • Bagnards (2002)
  • Histoire des galères, bagnes et prisons en France - XIIIe – XIXe siècle : l'enfermement d'Ancien Régime (2002)
  • Depuis l'enfance, matelot : pêqueus et gens de la mé à la Hougue 1820-1870 (2005)
  • Salé et ses corsaires, 1666-1727 : un port de course marocain au XVIIe siècle (2007)
  • Marseille au temps du Roi-Soleil : la ville, les galères, l'arsenal (2007)
  • Kourou-1763 : le dernier rêve de l'Amérique française (2011)
  • Les Marins du Roi-Soleil (2023)

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