[1] He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics.
From 1965 to 1992 he was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
[2]: 98 [1] He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France in 1996.
[1] His book L'Image interdite, une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme (1994) was translated into English as The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm in 2000 and published by the University of Chicago Press.
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