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Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
August 5, 2023
French historian and politician (1929–2023)
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Hélène Carrère, also Carrère d'Encausse, was a French historian, university professor and politician. As the first woman to hold this position in the institution's century-long history, she served as Secrétaire perpétuel at the head of the Académie française from 1999.
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