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French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
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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.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
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Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️
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Hello, I am doing my PhD on veterans in France and West Germany (and their transnational connections) after the Second World War, situating them within postwar democratization.
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hello, I am doing my PhD on veterans in France and West Germany (and their transnational connections) after the Second World War, situating them within postwar democratization.
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Bonjour! Gender and sexuality in 19th and early 20th France here!
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Bonjour! Gender and sexuality in 19th and early 20th France here!
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Morning! Anglo-Norman medievalist here, 10c-12c. Nice to see you here!
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Morning! Anglo-Norman medievalist here, 10c-12c. Nice to see you here!
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Hello everyone. All things 18th-century (literature, cultural history, letters, Marie-Antoinette, Liotard etc.)
November 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hello everyone. All things 18th-century (literature, cultural history, letters, Marie-Antoinette, Liotard etc.)
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Reposting the *working* link for my @frenchhistory.bsky.social piece re: the 1985 French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior" because I miss things all the time on here & maybe you do too?
Also goofily proud of this photo I took at Marsden Wharf in Auckland in 2024 & my first post didn't show it off.
Also goofily proud of this photo I took at Marsden Wharf in Auckland in 2024 & my first post didn't show it off.
Sorry, that was not at all the right link! this one should work:
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On ne peut pas couler un arc-en-ciel: the Rainbow Warrior bombing at forty
The French bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand needs no new introduction because it has already been introduced hundred
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November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposting the *working* link for my @frenchhistory.bsky.social piece re: the 1985 French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior" because I miss things all the time on here & maybe you do too?
Also goofily proud of this photo I took at Marsden Wharf in Auckland in 2024 & my first post didn't show it off.
Also goofily proud of this photo I took at Marsden Wharf in Auckland in 2024 & my first post didn't show it off.
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For any fellow educators/academics interested in French history, this thread is a treasure trove of people to follow!
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October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For any fellow educators/academics interested in French history, this thread is a treasure trove of people to follow!
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New article by Chiara Lereda, 'Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)' on the structural contradictions of French foreign policy pre-Revolution 🥳🙌💾
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Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)
Abstract. This article explores the dual diplomatic voice of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes—Louis XVI’s foreign minister—through two letters sent on 2
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New article by Chiara Lereda, 'Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)' on the structural contradictions of French foreign policy pre-Revolution 🥳🙌💾
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I was deeply disappointed by the renovation of the Musée Carnavalet, one of my favorite Parisian museums. The editors of @frenchhistory.bsky.social kindly invited me to explain why.
Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.
Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.
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
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September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the renovation of the Musée Carnavalet, one of my favorite Parisian museums. The editors of @frenchhistory.bsky.social kindly invited me to explain why.
Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.
Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.
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Excited to see this published @frenchhistory.bsky.social! ‘Only illusions are amusing …’: nature, artifice and femininity in eighteenth-century France through the lens of Louis de Carmontelle' by @zarakesterton.bsky.social 🌼🌺🌸🎨
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‘Only illusions are amusing …’: nature, artifice and femininity in eighteenth-century France through the lens of Louis de Carmontelle
Abstract. This article considers the watercolour portraits of Louis de Carmontelle as a commentary on the relationships between illusion, reality, artifice
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July 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Excited to see this published @frenchhistory.bsky.social! ‘Only illusions are amusing …’: nature, artifice and femininity in eighteenth-century France through the lens of Louis de Carmontelle' by @zarakesterton.bsky.social 🌼🌺🌸🎨
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Fascinating new article on late medieval lordship by Margreet Brandsma, 'Shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth–fifteenth century)': doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth–fifteenth century)
Abstract. Based on seigneurial legislation from the French-speaking principality of Hainaut in the southern Low Countries, this article discerns long-term
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July 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Fascinating new article on late medieval lordship by Margreet Brandsma, 'Shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth–fifteenth century)': doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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New article by Déborah Cohen – 'Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public
Abstract. This article explores the porous boundary between medical and political publics at the end of the eighteenth century, based on letters sent to th
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September 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New article by Déborah Cohen – 'Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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I am delighted that my latest article was highly commended by the judges of the @frenchhistory.bsky.social 2024 article prize. Congratulations to the winner, Niall Ó Súilleabháin!
I am delighted that my latest article was highly commended by the judges of the @frenchhistory.bsky.social 2024 article prize. Congratulations to the winner, Niall Ó Súilleabháin!
French History article prize
The Society for the Study of French History and the editors of French History, in conjunction with Oxford Journals, wish to announce the creation of a prize, t
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June 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I am delighted that my latest article was highly commended by the judges of the @frenchhistory.bsky.social 2024 article prize. Congratulations to the winner, Niall Ó Súilleabháin!
I am delighted that my latest article was highly commended by the judges of the @frenchhistory.bsky.social 2024 article prize. Congratulations to the winner, Niall Ó Súilleabháin!
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We've updated the Society for the Study of French History website with new increased funding amounts for all available schemes. These are central to the society's activity & a great way to support scholarship 🗃️ #frenchhistory #skystorians @frenchhistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/
Grants – SSFH
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July 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We've updated the Society for the Study of French History website with new increased funding amounts for all available schemes. These are central to the society's activity & a great way to support scholarship 🗃️ #frenchhistory #skystorians @frenchhistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/
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Heartfelt thanks to the organizers of the French History Global Consortium for a wonderful conference Paris 15-19July. Special thnx to Solveig Serre & Luc Robene + execs of @sfhs.bsky.social @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social SSFS (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) + George Rude Society.Merci!
July 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Heartfelt thanks to the organizers of the French History Global Consortium for a wonderful conference Paris 15-19July. Special thnx to Solveig Serre & Luc Robene + execs of @sfhs.bsky.social @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social SSFS (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) + George Rude Society.Merci!
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To those still out there during the summer break: I am happy to share that my paper on shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth-fifteenth century) is out now in @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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July 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
To those still out there during the summer break: I am happy to share that my paper on shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth-fifteenth century) is out now in @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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Very excited to see this excellent piece of research on medieval lordship by @brandsmargreet.bsky.social in print—now available as an advance article in @frenchhistory.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...
Shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth–fifteenth century)
Abstract. Based on seigneurial legislation from the French-speaking principality of Hainaut in the southern Low Countries, this article discerns long-term
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July 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Very excited to see this excellent piece of research on medieval lordship by @brandsmargreet.bsky.social in print—now available as an advance article in @frenchhistory.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/fh/article-a...
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My review of Mélanie Plouviez’s L'injustice en héritage is now online in @frenchhistory.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
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L’injustice en héritage
Paris, 2 April 1791: Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau is on his deathbed. In his final act of faith, he entrusts Talleyrand with his final speech, which
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July 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
My review of Mélanie Plouviez’s L'injustice en héritage is now online in @frenchhistory.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
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I am extremely grateful to the Society for #FrenchHistory @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the research grant that enabled me to participate in this unique opportunity to sail through the landscapes of my doctoral research. /end
August 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I am extremely grateful to the Society for #FrenchHistory @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the research grant that enabled me to participate in this unique opportunity to sail through the landscapes of my doctoral research. /end
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New in French History: Jennifer Sessions' powerful decolonial critique of the re-opened Musée Carnavalet in Paris doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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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
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September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New in French History: Jennifer Sessions' powerful decolonial critique of the re-opened Musée Carnavalet in Paris doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
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You can read all about the 10th anniversary of D Day in my @frenchhistory.bsky.social article 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
Crises of commemoration: Cold War, decolonization and the bungled 1954 D-Day commemoration
Abstract. In 1954, international dignitaries and veterans joined the commemoration of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, though not everything
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June 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You can read all about the 10th anniversary of D Day in my @frenchhistory.bsky.social article 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr...
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SSFH Book Prize – SSFH
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June 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr...
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Question for historians of France - can you help me work out any big anniversaries for 2027? It's the 70th anniv of Treaty of Rome. Also the end of the War of the First Coalition in 1797 (perhaps a stretch). Can you think of any more big anniversaries for 2027? @frenchhistory.bsky.social 🗃️
June 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Question for historians of France - can you help me work out any big anniversaries for 2027? It's the 70th anniv of Treaty of Rome. Also the end of the War of the First Coalition in 1797 (perhaps a stretch). Can you think of any more big anniversaries for 2027? @frenchhistory.bsky.social 🗃️