White, history of a colour.
Michel Pastoureau is a historian and a specialist in colours, images and symbols. After studying at the École des Chartes, he was elected director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1982, where he held the chair of history of Western symbolism for thirty-seven years. Honorary President of the French Society of Heraldry, correspondent of the Institut de France, he is the author of some sixty works, several of which have been translated into more than thirty languages. His autobiographical book Les couleurs de nos souvenirs (Seuil, 2010) won the Médicis-Essai prize. His book Jaune. Histoire d'une couleur (Seuil, 2019) received the Montaigne Prize.
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