Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary Abstract. Historiography has placed great emphasis on the improvised nature of the French Revolution, but a small minority of people worked purposefully to

Damien Tricoire's new article previews an upcoming special issue on eighteenth-century libelles with a major reinterpretation of the origins of the Revolution:

'Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary'

doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Cover illustration brings tech nostalgia for the digital age, trailering our upcoming special issue on 'Dirty data and new quantitative histories':

Ľordinateur outil de ľinformatique. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Audiovisuel, 8 MU-4100

The soundtrack of immigration: a look back at the exhibition ‘Paris–Londres: Music Migrations (1962–1989)’ at the French National Museum of Immigration History In the heat of the summer of 2023, the death of seventeen-year-old Nahel, during a police arrest, prompted a wave of protests around France in the name of

The soundtrack of immigration: a look back at the exhibition ‘Paris–Londres: Music Migrations (1962–1989)’ at the French National Museum of Immigration History
Angéline Escafré-Dublet
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 129–142, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris When the Musée Carnavalet, the history museum of the city of Paris, closed for renovations in 2016, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared that the twin goals o

An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris
Jennifer Sessions
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 112–128, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Colonisations: notre histoire, a roundtable discussion Abstract. The collected volume Colonisations: notre histoire (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023) is a landmark publication that offers a critical assessment o

Colonisations: notre histoire, a roundtable discussion
Arthur Asseraf and others
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 95–111, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Nippon rediscovered: tracing the first Japanese talkie in French cinema Abstract. Although sound cinema had already reshaped global film culture by the early 1930s, Japan had not yet exported a talking film abroad; instead, Eur

Nippon rediscovered: tracing the first Japanese talkie in French cinema
Wayne E Arnold and Adrian Wood
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 72–94, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

The Touring-Club de France: an association at war (1914–1918) Abstract. This article analyses the involvement of the Touring-Club de France, an association promoting open air tourism, in the First World War. While it

The Touring-Club de France: an association at war (1914–1918)
Sébastien Stumpp
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 54–71, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Constructing and cultivating a national theatrical system, 1806–24 Abstract. Much has been written about the beginnings and decline of the French system for theatrical infrastructure first devised by Napoleon to oversee pe

Constructing and cultivating a national theatrical system, 1806–24
Sophie Horrocks David
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 37–53, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Unmanning the author: Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy and anti-fandom in eighteenth-century France Abstract. This article examines the negative reader response to the publication of Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy’s hagiography of Marguerite-Marie Alacoque

Unmanning the author: Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy and anti-fandom in eighteenth-century France
Samuel Weber
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 16–36, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016) Abstract. This article examines the civil conflict which took place in Burgundy after the death of Duke Henry (r. 965–1002), normally understood as a strug

Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)
Fraser McNair
French History, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026, Pages 1–15, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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The latest issue of French History is now published! 💾🖥️🖨️

Articles covering the 11th to the 20th centuries...

And a 🔥 series of decolonial reflections on historiography and curating via the landmark volume Colonisations: notre histoire and the Musée Carnavalet relaunch

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If you don't have access but would like to read it please get in touch

The idea was to dig deep in the surviving manuscript sources to show how the fortunes of the civic militia in the religious wars were shaped by, and in turn reshaped, the transformation of Parisian society in the sixteenth century

Simplified family tree showing the relationship between Denis Dujardin, François Perrichon, and Guillaume Perrichon via the marriage of Jean Dujardin and Anne Derambourg: the Perrichon branch.

... and François Perrichon, via the marriage of Jean Dujardin and Anne Derambourg

Simplified family tree showing the relationship between Denis Dujardin, François Perrichon, and Guillaume Perrichon via the marriage of Jean Dujardin and Anne Derambourg: the Dujardin branch.

We get quite nerdy with the genealogy as it's fascinating to see how some of the most violent militiamen in later sixteenth-century Paris were closely related, especially Denis Dujardin...

And I fell off my chair when I realised we could link this shop sign in the Musée Carnavalet for a cobbler in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois with Pierre Villot, who we've identified as Croisier's militia captain and traced between his trade and militia activity

It all started when we found Thomas Croisier, the most notorious killer on Saint Bartholomew's Day, as a hermit under interrogation, twenty years after the massacre, claiming he told his comrade Denis Dujardin that it was a 'wicked thing' to kill a Huguenot on the Pont aux Meuniers – ?!?!

It's part of a larger collaboration on the Paris civic militia during the Wars of Religion and includes some of our most interesting finds:

Legacies of Violence?: Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre Abstract. This article traces continuities and changes in Parisian Catholic militancy after the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (Aug. 24, 1572). It evaluates the rites of violence later reactivated by some of the killers, alongside a radicalized faction of their colleagues in the civic militia, who belonged to a younger generation and played a significant role in the later religious wars. Pursuing a forensic examination of the surviving manuscript sources, it provides a new perspective on the killers on Saint Bartholomew's Day by showing how these men were shaped by, and in turn reshaped, the transformation of Parisian society in the sixteenth century.

'Legacies of Violence? Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre'

Robert Descimon and I have pubished our article with French Historical Studies (@sfhs.bsky.social), with special thanks to colleagues at @crh.ehess.fr @durhamhistory.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1215/0016...

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Body Size in Early Modern Germany Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409

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To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

Thrilled to see our article “AI assistants in the archive and the lure of ‘instant history’" out in Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society!

It is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

Congratulations Fiona and looking forward to reading this! Sharing with French History team @willpooley.bsky.social @eldrclaire.bsky.social @jeanneologist.bsky.social as we're very interested in the topic at the moment

‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792 Abstract. Following the insurrection of 10 August 1792, the Legislative Assembly named commissioners to bring news of the events in Paris to the department

New article in French History! ‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792' by William S. Cormack

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Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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I was interviewed by the French History Network blog about my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book, 'Make cheese not war'. It was an ace opportunity to reflect on the lifecycle of a book project, personal encounters, research-led teaching (& vice versa) & more

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6838/

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Erin Maglaque · Never Known Heaven: Caravaggio’s Clothes Clothing, for Caravaggio, worked in the same way as his chiaroscuro, dramatising disclosure and reticence, attraction...

‘Caravaggio exploits dress not so much as a language, but as a way of posing the question: what is it we’re most susceptible to? A scrap of fur? A feather on a thigh? Hard, burnished armour?’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio’s clothes.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Oh wow, there are already enough hallucinations in inquisition records before LLMs get involved...

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