Antoine De Baecque

Antoine de Baecque is a historian specializing in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and a film critic specializing in the French New Wave and contemporary theater. He served as editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema magazine and cultural editor of Libération newspaper, and he has penned numerous books and essays, including biographies on François Truffaud, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer. Professor of film history at the École Normale Supérieure in Ulm, he also reviews history books...See more

Antoine de Baecque is a historian specializing in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and a film critic specializing in the French New Wave and contemporary theater. He served as editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema magazine and cultural editor of Libération newspaper, and he has penned numerous books and essays, including biographies on François Truffaud, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer. Professor of film history at the École Normale Supérieure in Ulm, he also reviews history books for Le Monde des livres, and serves on the editorial board of the magazine L'Histoire. See less