The association "Liberté pour l’Histoire" has been formed in 2005 following an appeal signed by a thousand historians :

History is not a religion. Historians accept no dogma, respect no prohibition, ignore every taboo.

Historical truth is different from morals. The historian’a task is not to extol or to blame, but to explain.

History is not the slave of current issues.

History is not memory.

History is not a juridical issue. In a free state, neither the Parliament nor the judicial courts have the right to define historical truth. State policy, even with best case will, is not history policy.

First signatories :

Jean-Pierre Azéma, Elisabeth Badinter, Jean-Jacques Becker, Françoise Chandernagor, Alain Decaux, Marc Ferro, Jacques Julliard, Jean Leclant, Pierre Milza, Pierre Nora, Mona Ozouf, Jean-Claude Perrot, Antoine Prost, René Rémond, Maurice Vaïsse, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Paul Veyne, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et Michel Winock.