Robert Frank, associate of history, was assistant, then lecturer at the University Paris 10-Nanterre (1977-1990); Director of the Institute of History of the Present Time (1990-1994); professor emeritus at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1994-2012) where he held the chair of history of international relations; Director of the UMR IRICE (2004-2012); Secretary General of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (2010-2105). He has also taught at the IEP in Paris.

- The price of French rearmament (1935-1939), Paris, Publications of the Sorbonne, reprint, 2016

- The obsession of decline. France, 1914-2014, Paris, Belin, reprint 2014

- 1937-1945. War-World, directed by Alya Aglan and Robert Frank, 2 volumes, Paris, Gallimard, "Folio History", 2015.