Director of the Turkish Studies Department of Marc-Bloch University of Strasbourg.

Prof. Dumont was director of the French Institute of Anatolian Studies from 1999 to 2003, and is co-editor of the review Turcica.

major publications

• Jewish Communities in Turkey During the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century in the Light of the Archives of the Alliance Israelite Universelle , in B. Braude and Bernard Lewis (ed.), Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, vol. I, New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, pp. 209-242.
• Mustafa Kemal invente la Turquie moderne, Bruxelles-Paris, Complexe, 1983.
  Économie et société dans l’Empire ottoman, Paris, éditions du CNRS, 1983 (co-edition with Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont).
• 'La période des Tanzimat et La mort d'un Empire' (with François Georgeon), in Robert Mantran (ed.), Histoire de l'Empire ottoman, Paris, Fayard, 1989, pp. 459-522 et pp. 577-528
• Les Sociaux-démocrates bulgares et le Bureau socialiste international. Correspondance. 1900-1914, Sofia, Mikom, 1996.
• Vivre ensemble dans l’Empire ottoman. Sociabilités et relations intercommunautaires. XVIII e ‑ XIX e siècles, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1997 (co-edition with François Georgeon).
• Du socialisme ottoman à l’internationalisme anatolien, Istanbul, Isis, 1998.
• Ottomanism, National Movements and Freemasonry, Yapı ve Kredi Yay, 2000; second edition, 2007 (in Turkish).

relevant publication

• La mort d'un Empire (with François Georgeon), in Robert Mantran (ed.), Histoire de l'Empire ottoman, Paris, Fayard, 1989

Source: The Death of an Empire (1908-1923), in Robert Mantran (ed.), Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, Fayard, 1989

"Tracking down, within the multitude of papers from both sides about this question, the inaccuracies, questionable assertions, or even forgeries, is not very difficult. In particular, it seems established today that some of the essential objects put in the file by the accusation [i.e. the Armenian side]  – for example, the Blue Book prepared for the British government by Bryce and Toynbee or the Memories of Na’im Bey published with the aid of Aram Andonian – can not any way to be considered as irrefutable documents. Didn’t Toynbee himself admit the Blue Book had been ‘published and spread only as war propaganda’? And the authenticity of the alleged telegrams of Ottoman government, ordering the destruction of Armenians is today seriously contested. […]

However, it is important to underline that the Armenian communities are not the only ones to have been ground down by the plague of the war. In the spring of 1915, the tsarist army moved to the region of the lake of Van, dragging behind it battalions of volunteers composed of Caucasus and Turkish Armenians. […] For each of the provinces which suffered from the Russian occupation and from the Armenian militias’ acts of vengeance, an important demographic deficit appears in the statistics of the post-war years — adding up to several hundred thousands of souls." Pp. 624-625