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This textbook is devoted to a self-contained presentation of the basics of Galois theory. The book contains 18 chapters and covers the following topics: generalities on rings, fields and polynomials, field extensions (finite, algebraic, finitely generated, simple, transcendental), algebraic closure, splitting fields, cyclotomic fields, finite fields, separable extensions, normal extensions, Galois extensions, trace, norm, discriminant, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, solvability by radicals, transcendence degree, etc. Besides these, the author presents some interesting classical results as: the transcendence of \(e\) and \(\pi\), the Wedderburn theorem, the d'Alembert-Gauss theorem, the Stickelberger theorem, the classical ruler-and-compass constructions, the quadratic reciprocity law, Lüroth's Theorem, etc. The last chapter of the book discusses the following topics: constructive Galois theory, infinite Galois theory, and differential Galois theory. The book is written in a very clear language and in a very explanatory style, offering complete proofs and a lot of illustrating examples and exercises which provide a stimulating challenge to the reader. The book is intended, in the author's opinion, to students of ``second cycle'' in Mathematics (étudiants de deuxième cycle en Mathématiques) and to candidates for recruitment exams for teachers (concours de recrutement de Professeurs).