Biography as a Historical Genre? A Case Study, Guillaume Piketty. Scorned for a long time, the biographical study has made a come-back today in spite of the specific problems for the historian. The history of the French Resistance, with its particular temporality, its original forces and organization, at all its levels and in all its successive phases, gives more than its due to the individual. Broached from a global and heuristic point of view, the biographical approach applied to the history of the dark years delves very deeply here.La biographie comme genre historique ? Étude de cas, Guillaume Piketty. Longtemps dédaignée, l'étude biographique connaît aujourd'hui un net retour en grâce malgré les difficultés spécifiques qu'elle pose à ...