Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–94) was one of France’s leading twentieth-century historians. Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, he was Professor of Contemporary History at the Sorbonne from 1964 to 1983 and President of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut de France from 1985 to 1986. In addition to The Idea of Europe in History (1965) and Europe: A History of its Peoples (1990), he published books on the history of migration, Western ideas, France before and during the First World War, both French and US foreign policy, and Franco–American relations.
