Catherine Duprat

Catherine Duprat (born 1936), is a French historian specializing in the French Revolution and philanthropy. She is a professor at the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University,

Life
In 1991, she graduated with the thesis. "The time of philanthropists: the Parisian philanthropy of the Enlightenment to the July monarchy, thought and action", where she studied with Maurice Agulhon.

She worked with Michel Vovelle in the Institute of History of the French Revolution, especially during the bicentennial of the Revolution. From 1993 to 2000, she was head of the Institute and chair of the history of the French Revolution. She engaged in a panel discussion with Michel Foucault.

Works

 * Le temps des philanthropes : la philanthropie parisienne des Lumières à la Monarchie de Juillet, Paris, Éd. du CTHS, 1993. ISBN 2735502775
 * Usage et pratiques de la philanthropie : pauvreté, action sociale et lien social, à Paris, au cours du premier XIXe siècle, Paris, Association pour l'étude de l'histoire de la sécurité sociale, 1996–1997. ISBN 2905882360