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‘The nation does not even know what a jury is’: trust, fear and judicial reconstruction in the French Revolution, 1789–91 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 David Andress
The long and turbulent debates in the French National Constituent Assembly of 1789–91 over the creation of a jury system offer a window into the problematic nature of political trust in the French Revolution. The corruption of French mœurs, and the uncertain and contradictory place of the jury in their regeneration, preoccupied Assembly deputies. While courtroom juries were initially taken for granted
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A secret life of Queen Eleanor of Austria: correspondence, courtiers and covert agents French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Maxim Hoffman
This article seeks to reassess the influence of Eleanor of Austria as queen of France. Her dual role as a foreign queen consort not only encompassed her persona as a queen of peace, emphasized at public appearances, but also involved an intimate sphere of back-channel diplomacy where she maintained close connections with her siblings, Emperor Charles V and Queen Mary of Hungary. First, Eleanor’s peace-making
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The legal boundaries of coexistence: reframing liberty of conscience as a tool of toleration in the French Wars of Religion French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Elisa J Jones
In histories of the Wars of Religion and narratives of rights and the rise of the state, ‘freedom of conscience’ is often treated as self-evident. However, this article demonstrates its contested meaning through French Protestant and Catholic reactions to liberty of conscience as granted by the monarchy in 1563, when its particular use as the legal framework for the toleration of Calvinists can be
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Insubordination and the rise of absolutism: the Mercure françois under Richelieu French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Caspar Paton
It is often argued that Cardinal Richelieu appropriated the Mercure françois, France’s first printed newspaper, immediately upon entering the king’s council in 1624. This consensus originates in a questionable nineteenth-century work by Louis Dedouvres yet has not been seriously challenged, seemingly because it tallies neatly with traditional étatiste understandings of Richelieu as a great state-builder
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‘A troupe of mercenary writers’: the publicists in Chancellor Maupeou’s service, 1771–1774 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Vincent Cossarutto
Louis XV’s government led an ambitious communications campaign in 1771 to justify his power grab against the parlements. Chancellor Maupeou enlisted a propaganda office that notably included his personal secretary, Charles-François Lebrun, and François Marin, the secrétaire général of the Librairie. The minister also relied on the commitment of a group of writers. François-Marie Arouet Voltaire was
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‘Le cinéma n’est que la fiente de la culture’: negotiating the position and content of French culture in postwar Britain French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Charlotte Faucher
In the early 1950s French diplomats pondered over how much space to grant to forms of popular culture within French cultural diplomacy in Britain, which had largely relied on academic culture over the previous decades. The debate over what forms of culture were suitable for a British audience intensified over the role that should be given to cinema. This article argues that the democratization of cultural
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Abstract and embodied: the political economy of the French Revolution French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Charly Coleman, Charles Walton
The political economy of the French Revolution struggled to reconcile the promises of economic abstraction and the challenges of embodying wealth. In their attempts to realize these dual aims, revolutionaries drew not only on Enlightenment ideas about laissez-faire but also on an economic theology of money and consumption with roots in alchemy and the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. Both strains
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Women at the centre: medical entrepreneurialism and ‘la grande médecine’ in eighteenth-century Lyon French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Cathy McClive, Lisa W Smith
We draw on Colin Jones’ framing of the Sisters of Charity as medical practitioners rather than charitable carers (1989) to centre the entrepreneurialism of Marie Grand and Marie Fiansons’ medical practice in eighteenth-century Lyon. Although historians recognize the significance of early modern European women’s (medical) work, they often assume such work existed in the shadows of the medical marketplace
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Law, suspicion and social hermeneutics at the inception of the Terror, April 1793 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Carla A Hesse
This article revisits the genesis of the Law of Suspects of 17 September 1793, locating it in the longer durée of community and police surveillance, and the semantic field of ‘suspicion’ from the early eighteenth century to April 1793. It argues that the hermeneutics of suspicion, deployed by both citizens and the police, as a means to ensure public safety was a practice of keeping a watch out for
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Royalist memorials of the civil war in the Vendée during the early Third Republic French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Gareth Oakland
In the 1890s, when statuomanie was at its peak, conservatives in the Vendée erected two statues to commemorate figures from the royalist armies in the civil war, in order to contest republican education politics and memory culture. The first, aristocrat Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1772–94), was unveiled in 1895, the second, erected a year later, celebrated the first commander-in-chief of the royalist
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Reconsidering the patient: pauvres malades and malades pauvres in eighteenth-century medical contexts French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Philip Rieder, Sophie Vasset, François Zanetti
When humoral medicine gave way to more scientific approaches in the nineteenth century, the physician’s gaze changed. Amongst the epistemological transformations were representations and perceptions of the poor patient: the pauvre malade—a pauper who happened to be sick and was to be taken care of by traditional medical charities—became a malade pauvre, a sick person who happened to be poor and was
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Harping on patriotism: female education meets Orléanist ambition in Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust’s The Harp Lesson (1791) French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Amy Freund, Tom Stammers
One of the largest and most striking submissions to the 1791 Salon, The Harp Lesson by Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust was an ambitious but spectacularly ill-timed intervention in revolutionary politics. It emerged from Félicité de Genlis’ remarkable educational project for the children of the duc d’Orléans, especially Princess Adélaïde, which mixed bold ideas about gender and civic virtue with specific
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A peacetime battleground: national symbols, patriotism and prestige in the French-occupied Rhineland, 1920–23 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 James E Connolly
Tensions and violence were central to the French interwar occupation of the Rhineland. This article examines symbolic opposition and violence carried out by locals, as perceived by the French authorities, mainly involving attacks on flags, singing banned patriotic songs, or displaying German patriotic colours. Although rarer than physical violence, the ways in which French officials documented and
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‘Bourgeois Enlightenment Revivified’ French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 David A Bell
This article, inspired by Colin Jones’ ‘Bourgeois Revolution Revivified’, calls on historians to pay renewed attention to the social and economic contexts of the French Enlightenment, and its relationship to the rise of commercial capitalism. It criticizes influential works in the ‘social history of ideas’ for placing too much emphasis on the compatibility of the Enlightenment and Old Regime social
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The Musée Napoléonien: objects, performance and encountering the ‘spectacular past’ in the long nineteenth century French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Laura O’Brien
: In the early months of 1903, a new play opened at the Théâtre du Château-d’Eau in Paris, La Chute de l’Aigle, telling the story of the weeks following Napoléon’s defeat at Waterloo. Though the play itself was not particularly remarkable, it is notable for the presence of a ‘Musée Napoléonien’, containing a selection of original Napoleonic objects, in the theatre’s foyer. This article takes this unusual
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Ovine invasion: sheep as protest objects and animal agents in the Larzac campaign French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Andrew W M Smith
: In their posters and in their protests, the peasants of the Larzac deployed sheep to help them fight back against the French Army’s plans to expropriate them from the land as part of the expansion of a local military base. In Paris, as in regional courtrooms, sheep served as a visible and disruptive contrast to urban modernity, emblematized in ovine invasions which invited animals to make themselves
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Paper tools for broken hearts: fortune-telling with cards in France, c. 1803–1937 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 William G Pooley
Fortune-telling using cards became increasingly popular in France in the late eighteenth century. But the history of cards as tools for divination has been overshadowed by myths spun by occultist writers, who claimed Tarot were the only cards truly suited to fortune-telling, because they encoded secret magical truths that dated back to ancient Egypt. This article turns from these myths to alternative
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Venality in town: the civic participation of venal forestry officers in Villemur (1671–1776) French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Elisabeth Salje
Ancien régime venality of office has been axiomatically associated with inefficiency and corruption. In the case of mid-ranking provincial royal forestry officers, such behaviour was blamed on the limited promotion opportunities and poor financial rewards of their office. This article argues that active engagement with municipal politics was an additional, and more effective, compensation strategy
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Episcopal entries and urban liberties in late medieval and Renaissance France, c. 1200–c. 1600 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Neil Murphy
In comparison to the ceremonial entries of French kings, little work has been done on episcopal entries. Whereas royal entries underwent a period of massive elaboration during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, there was less change to bishops’ entries during this period, especially in towns where civic administrations used these ceremonies to compel bishops to acknowledge their rights. While less
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From dissident to recognized belligerent? The Free French and the Red Cross Movement, 1940–1943 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert
This article explores how the Free French, who were obsessed with establishing legitimacy and obtaining resources on the international scene, sought to create links with the Red Cross Movement. Firstly, it highlights the significance attached to affiliation with the Red Cross by a political committee-in-exile operating outside the traditional diplomatic framework. Although de Gaulle was relatively
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The politics of Catholic humanitarian Aid: missionaries and American relief in Algeria 1942–47 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Bertrand Taithe
This paper examines the politics of the Catholic American aid delivered in French-controlled Algeria between 1942 and 1947. Using the archives of the White Fathers (Missionnaires d’Afrique [AGMAfr]), the Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer [ANOM] and the archives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Catholic University of America in Washington this article traces how humanitarian
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Between metropole and colony: Bordels militaires de campagne in colonial Morocco and France in the twentieth century French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Catherine Phipps
Bordels militaires de campagne (BMCs) were French military brothels in North Africa under colonial occupation. This system was extended to metropolitan France during the First and Second World Wars due to fears of sexual violence or consensual relationships between Moroccan men and French women. Even after brothels were banned in metropolitan France in 1946, French military authorities illegally brought
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‘Democratic colonialism’, citizenship and the 1937 Godart mission to Indochina French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 M Kathryn Edwards
In 1937, Justin Godart was despatched by the Popular Front government to undertake a mission of inquiry in French India and Indochina. This article examines the objectives and repercussions of the Godart mission at a time of burgeoning Vietnamese nationalism and its repression by colonial authorities. It highlights the tensions between the Popular Front’s ‘democratic colonialism’—and the French left’s
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Historical perspectives on the 2022 electoral cycle in France French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Emile Chabal, Michael C Behrent, Marion Van Renterghem
This series of three essays explores the stakes and outcomes of the 2022 French electoral cycle. Written in real time, they call attention to several emerging trends in French politics, including the collapse of both the traditional political parties and the left–right divide, the dynamics of attraction and repulsion elicited by Macron’s personality, the far right’s ‘arrival’ as a mainstream party
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A victory for the March for Equality? Immigration, policy, protest and the ten-year residency permit of 1984 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Daniel A Gordon
This article seeks to explain the origins of the Dufoix law of 17 July 1984 which instituted a ten-year residency permit for most foreign residents in France. It aims to clarify a series of debates about the relationship between the law and the March for Equality and Against Racism of 1983 by examining three mutually contradictory theories. The first theory holds that President Mitterrand was persuaded
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An account of the negotiations inside the Parlement de Paris: Claude Guillaume Lambert’s diary French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Vincent Guffroy
The Parlement de Paris is well known to historians. However, if its role as a recorder of edicts and royal declarations is clear, less is known of the debates that informed its judgments and remonstrances. The official records compiled by court clerks have tended to be the only source used by historians. Yet some magistrates created a more personal memory of the discussions that took place within the
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‘This beautiful appearance … has gradually transformed and become altogether monstrous’: the massacre at Troyes as a foreseeable tragedy French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Penny Roberts
The massacres that took place in several provincial towns during August, September and October 1572 have attracted far less attention than the intense historical scrutiny given to events in Paris. This relative neglect gives the impression that there is nothing more to say about these episodes of violence except as aftershocks of the main event. Focusing on the case of Troyes in Champagne, this article
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In the shadow of the Saint Bartholomew’s massacre: justice for victims and the negotiations for peace, 1572–1575 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Mark Greengrass
This article examines the negotiations between Henri III and Protestant delegates in April–May 1575. Although they did not lead to the hoped-for pacification of the civil wars that had begun in the wake of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, the surviving, detailed journal of the discussions, emanating probably from the leading Protestant negotiator, gives us an insight into the way the massacre overshadowed
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From sounding the tocsin to ringing the doorbell: some reflections on Saint Bartholomew as a neighbourhood massacre French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Jeremie Foa
What do we know, after so many pages devoted to the lieu de mémoire ‘Saint-Barthélemy’, of the thousands of Protestants thrown into the Seine or flung into the Saône, of those anonymous men, women and children exterminated in the summer and autumn of 1572? What do we know about the executioners during those nights, about those rare people who put their heart and soul into massacring their Huguenot
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German narratives about the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Jonas van Tol
In Germany, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre was seen as special but not unique. Confronted with the first news reports, German audiences turned to existing understandings of the nature of religious conflict to make sense of the traumatic stories. This article examines four broad and interrelated narrative frameworks that were used to explain the massacre. First, German Catholics and Lutherans
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Introduction: returning to the massace of Saint Bartholomew, 1572–2022 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Mark Greengrass
This text introduces the journal special issue, entitled "Returning to the Massacre of St Bartholomew, 1572–2002". It puts the assembled articles in the context of the historiography and its enduring status as a contested event in French history. It underlines the significance of the articles as a contribution to the historiography about how historians write about events.
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From event to enactment: celebrating the massacre of Saint-Bartholomew at Rome French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Lana Martysheva
This article analyzes the communication and celebration of the news of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew at Rome. It explains why there was such rejoicing on that occasion, and it reveals the mechanisms for the transformation of ‘news’ into a ‘news event’. Taking this case-study as its starting-point, it seeks to examine the role of the Urbs as a centre for the reception of news and its prioritization
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Against the hierarchy of knowledge: Georges Sorel, education and revolution French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Eric Brandom
Georges Sorel’s ideas about education are key to making sense of his critique of the Third Republic. Cutting across the heated debates over classical as opposed to modern curricula, Sorel drew on a complex account of the nature of scientific knowledge to offer a sustained defense of education within the factory and on the picket line as a source of individual autonomy. Sorel’s refusal of the practices
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Enlightenment and reform in the French Atlantic empire: Véron de Forbonnais, Pierre-Louis de Saintard, and the 1756 debate over the admission of neutral commerce in the Antillean colonies French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Giulio Talini
This article analyses the political and intellectual debates that took place in the French Empire concerning the admission of neutral commerce to the colonies at the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). The decision taken by the Minister for the Navy, Machault d’Arnouville, was justified as the only means available to provide the Antilles with essential goods in the face of British naval primacy
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How to organize an urban revolt in medieval Northern France: strategies of mobilization and political communication of craftsmen in Saint-Omer, 1305–1306 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Hannah Serneels, Jelle Haemers
This article studies the strategies of mobilization and political communication of craftsmen during a revolt in Saint-Omer in 1305–6. An analysis of a written series of testimonies about the revolt shows that it was not a spontaneous happening, but the outcome of a strategically planned and cunningly carried out mobilization of men, money and means. The well-established practices of gathering, the
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The Treaty of Nîmes (1704): Fake News, Propaganda and Diplomacy During the War of the Spanish Succession French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Lionel Laborie
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Andress D.
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris. By JonesColin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xx + 571 pp. £25. ISBN 978 01987 15955.
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The Streets as a Cloister: History of the Daughters of Charity 17th–18th Centuries French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Hamilton T.
The Streets as a Cloister: History of the Daughters of Charity 17th–18th Centuries. By de LavergnéeMathieu Brejon. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2020. 665pp. £61.37. ISBN 978-1-5 6 5 4 8-027-8.
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Le Papier-monnaie dans la Révolution française: une analyse en termes d’économie d’émission French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Blaufarb R.
Le Papier-monnaie dans la Révolution française: une analyse en termes d’économie d’émission. By Fal’knerSemion Anissimovitch. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 2021. 536 pp. 49€. ISBN 978-240 6 1073 3 0.
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Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Nick Underwood
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Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Lydia Barnett
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The Letters of Paul de Foix: French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562-1566 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 David Gehring
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Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Meghan Tinsley
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The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame du Barry French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Bridgette Sheridan
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The Writing Public. Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 De Smet C.
The Writing Public. Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. By BondElizabeth Andrews. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. 299 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978 1 5017 5356 5.
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The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Fogg S.
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. By McAuleyJames. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2021. 301 pp. £25. ISBN 978 0 300 23337 7.
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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Rifkin A.
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By Israel RossAndrew. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2019. xx + 248 pp. £83.45. ISBN 978-1-4399-1-1489-2.
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Les Associations d’élèves et d’étudiants: Entre socialisation et apprentissages (XVIe – XXe siècle) French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 O’Connor A.
Les Associations d’élèves et d’étudiants: Entre socialisation et apprentissages (XVIe – XXe siècle). Edited by Castagnet-LarsVéronique. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi. 2020. 246 pp. 25€. ISBN 978-2-8107-0648-8.
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Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of the Enlightenment French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Allen J.
Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of the Enlightenment. By DarntonRobert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 391 pp. £26.99. ISBN: 978 0 1951 4452 9.
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The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Gondola D.
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad. By DaughtonJ.P.. Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press. 2021. 368 pp. £25. ISBN: 978-075 0 9979 2 8.
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Historical Communities: Cities, Eruditon, and National Identity in Early Modern France French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Van Der Linden D.
Historical Communities: Cities, Eruditon, and National Identity in Early Modern France. By BernsteinHilary. Leiden: Brill. 2021. 436 pp. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 42646 7.
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Witness to the Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Louvet, 1760–1797 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Dobbie S.
Witness to the Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Louvet, 1760–1797. By OliverBette W.. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2020. xx + 132 pp. £65.84. ISBN 978 1 7936 1853 5.
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SSFH Society News French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-17
The Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) supports postgraduate research by funding students to carry out archival research as well as helping them to attend and/or present work at conferences. These awards are open to all postgraduate students registered at a UK university who are carrying out research on an aspect of French history, and reports from successful applicants clearly indicate
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Marianne en guerre, 1913–1923: the French Republic in the era of the Great War French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-15 Purseigle P.
France formally brought its centennial commemorations of the First World War to a close on 11 November 2018 with a remarkably inclusive and multicultural ceremony. In the presence of its highest authorities and of a host of world leaders, the universalist Republic thus concluded a long and intense commemorative sequence. The event marked the culmination of the work of the Mission du Centenaire, the
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White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Krause J.
White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by ErberNancy and PenistonWilliam. Edited by RobbGeorge. Indianapolis: Hackett. 2021. £15.99. ISBN: 978-162 4 6695 1 4.
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Napoléon n’est plus? Reflections on a bicentenary French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 O’Brien L.
On a July evening in the summer of 2021, the cool air inside the Dôme church at Les Invalides provided a welcome respite from the lingering Parisian heat. The site was quiet, with few taking advantage of the museum’s extended opening hours, and as I descended into the crypt that has, since 1862, housed Napoleon’s remains, I realized I was the only visitor. In the cavernous silence it was just me, the
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A Transatlantic Battle of Robes: French Priests in the Haitian Revolution French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Miriam Franchina
In line with reconsiderations of the importance of religion in the Age of Revolutions, this article reconstructs how French priests competed to gain control of the Church in revolutionary Saint-Domingue and navigated the ever-changing political landscapes triggered by the Haitian and French Revolutions. Priests in the Haitian Revolution were also priests in the French Revolution: divided in their visions
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Milk and Hygiene in Eastern France: the ‘goutte de lait’ at Besançon and the ‘œuvre du bon lait’ at Bar-le-Duc (Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Fabien Knittel
— Food security held a central place in the hygienist project to improve the quality of milk. While it may be difficult to grasp the question of milk and dairy products globally in hygienist discourse, this article proposes a focused study of two specific ‘œuvres de la goutte de lait’ (‘drop of milk’—the name given to specific social projects for milk quality) at Besançon and Bar-le-Duc in Eastern
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Judging a Declaration: Condorcet, Rights and the General Will in 1789 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Kathleen McCrudden Illert
This article argues that a study of unpublished notes for a treatise on the Déclaration des droits, written by the marquis de Condorcet in 1789, offers an insight into a problem that has defined scholarship on the philosophe for decades: the tension between the competing ‘democratic’ and ‘elitist’ discourses in Condorcet’s political thought. In this manuscript we see a novel integration of the discourse
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La Cité de demain: French urbanism in war and reconstruction, 1914–1928 French History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Pierre Purseigle
Urbanists have long condemned the reconstruction of France after the Great War as a failure. Articulated in the 1920s, this distorted view has largely gone unchallenged and continues to frame the historiography. This article revisits dominant assessments of the post-1918 urban reconstruction and positions the mobilization of French urbanists in the wider transition from war to peace. Urban reconstruction