Jacques-Olivier Boudon

Jacques-Olivier Boudon is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure with a PhD in History. Since September 2003 he has been a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, conducting research on the history of the French Revolution and the First French Empire, along with contemporary religious history. Since 2012, he has been on the consulting committee for History for Le Figaro. He has written, or contributed to, around 18 books, largely academic titles. In April 2017, he was one of a group of researchers and university professors who endorsed Macron as presidential candidate.