Le rez-de jardin de la BNF (@labnf.bsky.social) s'éteint, littéralement, en silence. Les places en rouge sur ce schéma ne sont plus éclairées et l'on nous apprend que les ampoules, devenues obsolètes, ne peuvent être remplacées. "Democracy Dies in Darkness", comme on le sait au Washington Post.
And concludes with a response essay by Miranda Spieler, American University of Paris
H-France thanks all of the participants for their contributions to this Forum
The forum begins w/reviews by:
Antoine Lilti, Collège de France, Paris
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Marie Houllemare, Université de Genève
@juliehardwick.bsky.social, Univ. of Texas at Austin
H-France Forum announces its latest issue (21:1), edited by Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve Univ., on Miranda Spieler, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives & Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2025. 256 pp. ISBN 9-78-0674986541 (hb) 9-78-0674300781 (eb).
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2/2 With Marie Houllemare, Antoine Lilti and Sasha Turner.
(Not sure why the nice thumbnail for the forum that popped up when I put the link in isn't showing! I hope when you click it, it will be! Here's the link to the book with thumbnail at any rate
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
1/n Absolutely my honor & please to be part of this forum about Miranda Spieler's amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - an instant classic. Such an important intervention in French & European history as well as the history of Black Europe & Atlantic history.
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Check out our new curated issue on "What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse."
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Our next French Presse is this Sunday at 3pm ET! Join Alice Conklin and Dan Sherman in conversation about Dan's new book Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 2025). Register at Eventbrite here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/french-pre...
And concludes w/a response by Dan Edelstein, Stanford Univ.
H-France thanks all the participants in the Forum for their contributions.
The forum, which can be found at h-france.net/hfrance-foru...
begins w/reviews by:
Craige B. Champion, Syracuse Univ.
Anne Simonin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Emma Planinc, Univ. of Notre Dame
H-France is pleased to announce the newest issue of H-France Forum, edited by David Harrison, Grinnell College, on Dan Edelstein, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin. Princeton UP, 2025. $35.00 (cl) ISBN: 978-0-691-2318-3. $24.50 (eb) ISBN 978-0-691-2318-46.
My review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social of Sylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, and Tyler Stovall, eds. The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony:
h-france.net/vol25reviews...
Happy belated birthday!
In need of some Christmas cheer??? ageofrevolutions.com/2021/12/20/1...
We will accept submissions for our annual book prizes from 01 Jan to 28 Feb 2026. Books of any academic discipline will be considered providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective. Please contact bookprizes@frenchcolonial.org with any questions.
On acceptera submissions aux prix de livres du 1er jan au 28 fév 2026. Les livres de n’importe quelle discipline académique seront considérés à condition qu’ils abordent l’expérience coloniale française d’un point de vue historique.
Veuillez envoyer des demandes à bookprizes@frenchcolonial.org
Bienvenue!
Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)
CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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À l’occasion de son 50eme anniversaire, la SHCF a créé le Prix pour services distingués! La date limite pour les candidatures est le 31 jan 2026.
Le prix sera remis lors du congrès annuel à Maynooth University en Irlande.
Plus d'infromation à docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For its 50th anniversary, the FCHS created the Prix pour services distingués, recognizing the exceptional service of a member to the Society. The deadline for nominations is 31 Jan 26.
The prize will be awarded at the Annual Meeting at Maynooth University in Ireland. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
“I enjoy the way that by contrast blogging, once daringly futuristic, now seems quaintly retro—a bit like one of those early TGV prototypes from the 1970s.”
Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.
Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 7th April 2026.
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
Elise Franklin’s book, Disintegrating Empire, speaks to the limitations of the post/colonial welfare state in France. She sets her sights on the French state’s ever-contradictory relationship toward Algerians—a formerly colonized people who had the unique distinction of possessing French nationality but not citizenship, a distinction that posed a host of challenges for the imperial and postimperial nation-state. While Amelia Lyons’s 2013 study on Algerian women showed that until 1962, the French welfare state aimed primarily to assimilate them into French society in order to “keep Algeria French,” Franklin notes a contradiction: why, then, did state-sponsored services for Algerians continue after independence? If you’re expecting an argument about French largesse or colorblind benevolence, however, you won’t find it here. Drawing primarily on state publications and social worker reports, among other archival sources, Franklin offers a forensic analysis of how empire, racism, and—critically—whiteness became inscribed on the heart of the French welfare state.
I had the pleasure of reviewing @elisefranklin.bsky.social terrific book Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France for the AHR. Here's sneak preview:
🚨GRANT OPPORTUNITY🚨
We at AUPHF+ are once again opening a round of small grants!
Up to £500 is available for those in French and Francophone Studies.
Apply now and share widely:
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Dear @thewsfh.bsky.social @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social : We'd love it if you'd share the new issue through your networks. Merci!
