Patrick Cabanel

Patrick Cabanel (born 22 February 1961) is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes.

He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.

He was born in Alès and studied at the lycée Alphonse-Daudet.