Posts by Mathieu Ferradou
The new topic for the "agrégation interne" is the "Age of Revolutions". The Bulletin de l'AHMUF publishes a special issue about it. I have an article on Ireland, my first attempt at providing a synthesis over the whole period through the concept of the "war for the Atlantic Républic".
My review of Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's important book, "The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made it", has recently been published in the venerable Annales historiques de la Révolution française. The link below gives a free access in January. Hurry up to read it!
My intervention is from about 50'. I speak about the true date for the founding of the French Republic (no, no, not on the 21st or 22nd of Septembre 1792!), about the transition from cosmopolitanism to republican internationalism, and about the "1798 Moment" (and Trump).
The roundtable in which I was honored to participate with Edith Pirio (French Archives nationales) and Jules Lepoutre (Université Côte d'Azur) about "Etre français : un ou des statuts" during the conference on "Des régnicoles aux citoyens : comment s'identifie-t-on à la France ?" is online:
Où je parle de la véritable fondation de la République en France le 26 août (et non le 21 ou le 22 septembre) 1792, de la cosmopolitique à l'internationalisme républicain, et de Trump. Et c'est là, à partir de la 50e minute environ.
Auto-promo : la table-ronde à laquelle j'ai participé avec Edith Pirio (Archives nationales de France) et Jules Lepoutre (professeur à l'université Côte d'Azur) sur "Etre français, un ou des statuts", lors des RDV de l'histoire de Blois est en ligne !
Grade inflation is also a very huge, delicate and unspoken issue in France, esp. in secondary schools and in master degrees. This debate is a reflection of our schizophrenic society: on the one side, ultra-competition and on the other side a (hypocritical) discourse about caring for each other.
Venez ! On va causer de ce bon vieux Tone ! Tout est expliqué dans l'affiche : "Theobald Wolfe Tone : prophète
de l'émancipation catholique entre Irlande et France", 15 novembre 2025, 17h, bibliothèque de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français.
Thanks! I didn't know him.
I want to know whose memoirs it was!
I had not noticed that, at long last, my review of Janet Polasky's important but flawed Asylum Between Nations had been published in the December 2024 issue of Comparativ.
Here it is:
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
A tous les collègues européens/ to all European colleagues:
Voici une tribune, de la part de Rogue ESR, qu'il faut signer. Nous ne pouvons contrer l'internationale fasciste qu'internationalement, avant de mener la lutte at home, face à la violence de l'attaque qui a lieu, à bas bruit, en ce moment.
Moi non plus je n'y comprends rien : on me dit que les prix ont baissé pour la banlieue, mais pour aller à Nanterre, c'est 2,50€ (où est la baisse ?) en sachant qu'il n'est pas possible d'avoir un pass navigo ou d'acheter les tickets par 10 à tarif dégressif. Merci Valoche !
Oui, et pour l'administration française non plus. Je n'écris pas cela pour relativiser, mais pour pointer de quoi le macronisme est le nom :
www.francebleu.fr/infos/educat...
C'est demain et mercredi.
Mise en ligne du dernier n° de la revue "La Révolution française" sur le thème "Vivre la Révolution de Saint-Domingue (1789-1804)". Un dossier coordonné par Frédéric Régent. ⤵️
journals.openedition.org/lrf/
My latest article has just been published in the History of European Ideas journal.
I explore what could have been an Irish popular republic in 1795-1796 had the French expedition succeeded, and therefore propose a re-assessment of the secret society of the Defenders.
The best Master dissertation price of the history department at the Université Paris Nanterre have been awarded to three outstanding dissertations. You can listen to the students presenting their work here:
Macron has recently announced that he intended to 'pantheonize' Marc Bloch. Too bad his presidency has been synonymous with a concerted, willful destruction of everything Bloch fought for, and most notably an egalitarian school and university system.
I have been updating my profile on HAL (HyperArticles en Ligne), the French open archive platform developed by the CNRS. It appears that my three latest publications (others are in the pipeline) are reviews. I already shared my review on Laurent Colantonio's book yesterday. Here is another one:
The kit doesn't seem to work anymore, though.
I would really like to be added. My PhD was focused on transnational history from below between France and Ireland. Now, I'm expanding my research into the popular protest movement in Ireland from 1760 to 1830 in an Atlantic and global context.
This posthumous essay by Natalie Zemon Davis, about how being politically persecuted by her government & having her passport stripped affected her historical scholarship, is really amazing. I'd missed it coming out in Sept. Thanks to @ebrandom.bsky.social for posting it.
"Anti-immigration candidates
Candidates that had immigration at the centre of their election platform fell flat around the country. [...] An effort to maximise the chances of candidates with far-right views on immigration under the banner of the so-called National Alliance – was unsuccessful."
Though, it also implies a "more of the same" idea with the neo-liberal consensus at the heart of Irish politics:
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
There a few genuinely good news in today's world. So, when Ireland clearly shows that she rejects the hatred crap which is on the rise everywhere else (and despite a very active campaign spearheaded from the US), this is very good news indeed.
This is very frightening, indeed. We really need to "unionize" in a transnational movement of resistance from below against global fascism.