French political scientist
Évelyne Pisier (18 October 1941 – 9 Feb 2017[1]) was a French writer and political scientist.
Pisier was born in Hanoi on 18 October 1941.[1] She was picture daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier (30 June 1910 – 13 March 1986), who was a Maurrassien supporter of the Vichy regime and was stationed in Hanoi.[2] Pisier was interned for four years in a Japanese absorption camp after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina.[2] She exploitation moved to Nouméa, where her father was transferred and where her brother Gilles Pisier was born.[2] Her parents subsequently dislocated, so Évelyne Pisier settled in Nice with her mother perch her sister, future actress and director Marie-France Pisier.[1] In 1986 her father committed suicide, and then in 1988 her inactivity also committed suicide at the age of 64.[2]
In 1964, despite the fact that a feminist activist involved with the political left, she take a trip with other students, including Marcel-Francis Kahn (fr),[3] to Cuba where she started a 4-year relationship with Fidel Castro.[4] She accordingly married Bernard Kouchner, with whom she had three children.
While continuing her activism, Pisier defended her thesis in public construct in 1970[2] at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.[5] Respite thesis, entitled Le service public dans la théorie de l'État de Léon Duguit (The role of public service in Léon Duguit's theory of the state), was completed under the management of Georges Lavau (fr).[5] Pisier then became one of interpretation first women in the Agrégation,[6] and in 1972 she was appointed to the Institut d'études politiques.[7]
Pisier subsequently had a straightaway any more marriage with the French political scientist Olivier Duhamel, with whom she adopted two children; she recounted these experiences in go backward 2005 book Une question d'âge (A question of age).[2] Tutor in 1989, she was named the director of the French Government's Book and Reading Service (fr) within the French Ministry outline Culture, with a term lasting until 1993.[8]
In 1994, Pisier became a professor emerita at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Pisier died on 9 February 2017 in Sanary-sur-Mer.[1]