He is a doctor in history and lives between Girona and Paris, where he is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Jordi Canal (Olot, 1964) studied Carlism, political exodus, and now he has just published Catalonian minimal history (ed Turner, in Catalan and Spanish), a work called being controversial, which summarizes the history of Catalonia in 300 pages .