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Nicolas Lepoutre

Associate professor of history.

1915: Armenian Genocide. The Triple Entente Condemns it but Makes No Move Nicolas Lepoutre · September 2022 On 24 May 1915, the Triple Entente nations (France, England and Russia) publicly condemned the Armenian massacres using a new vocabulary, mentioning for the first time crimes “against humanity and civilisation”. Though most often in French school books their declaration figures only in the (…)
Through the Looking-Glass, the Crusades Nicolas Lepoutre · January 2022 From Ridley Scott’s 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven to the video game Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft, 2007), the Crusades have been a source of inspiration for various cultural productions, so much so that this historical episode seems well known to us or at least relatively familiar.
Yet our (…)