Date of Birth: 
About Jean-Clément Martin
- Jean-Clement Martin, born on 31 January 1948, is a French historian, a specialist in the French Revolution, Counter-revolution and the War in the Vendée.
- He was a pupil of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.
- From 2000-2008 he was the director of the Institute for the history of the French Revolution, a center of academic research and teaching, connected to Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
- Since then he is professor emeritus.
- In 2016, he categorically denies (calling it "sacrificial"), the interpretation of the "Marseillaise" that "qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!" (Let an impure blood water our furrows!) means in truth that the Fédérés of 1792 were proud to pour their own blood for their homeland.
Read more at Wikipedia