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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · 6d

Our 2nd talk of the fall term will take place on Oct. 24. We very much look forward to welcoming @andreloez.bsky.social for his talk, "Unsettled voters. Invalid ballots in the first elections by universal male suffrage in France"

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 13d

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 [email protected] with any questions.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 13d

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 [email protected]

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George Rudé Society @georgerudesociety.bsky.social · 11d

We're here Bluesky! Follow the George Rudé Society to hear all about the research being done in French history and culture in Australia and New Zealand, and to hear news about our regular events and our biennial conference! 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 23d

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society

frenchcolonial.org

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · 18d

Please join us (in person) this afternoon!

FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are thrilled to kick off our fall series of talks with Dr. Jean-Olivier Richard, "In search of Père Castel's Philosophy of Princes: Jesuit physico-politics & climate change in e18th-c. France": Fri. Sept. 26, 4pm Munk Ctr. rm 108N @uoft (Rescheduled from last winter) #Frenchhistory

Announcement for an academic lecture, hosted by French History Seminar/Seminaire d'histoire de France. Image of a delicate tea set on a red-silk covered table.
Talk entitled: "In search of Père Castel's Philosophy of Princes: Jesuit Physico-Politics and Climate Change in Early Eighteenth-Century France"
September 26, 2025 04:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
108N, 1 Devonshire Place,
Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7

Speaker: Jean-Olivier Richard
St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

List of sponsors: YorkU, UofT, Munk School, etc.

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Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social · Sep 10

The table of contents for this one looks great. #earlymodern #FrHistory

Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Sep 9

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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La Fayette We are Here! Podcast @lafayettepodcast.com · Sep 11

Do you want to learn what happened to French North America after 1763?
Or how the way French settlers were treated by their British conquerors had a direct impact on the American Revolution?

Listen to this fantastic podcast episode.

#FRhistory 🗃️ #history

Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Aug 26

NOW PLAYING: Episode 18: The Resurrection

Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.

www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 26d

Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory

For me, it is difficult to overstate how challenging it is to be an ECR in French history right now. One fellow ECR speaks of it being
'cataclysmically bad'; another speaks of the academic job market as a ravaging 'tornado';
neither are exaggerations.

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Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social · Sep 8

🇫🇷 #18C 🗃️

FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are thrilled to kick off our fall series of talks with Dr. Jean-Olivier Richard, "In search of Père Castel's Philosophy of Princes: Jesuit physico-politics & climate change in e18th-c. France": Fri. Sept. 26, 4pm Munk Ctr. rm 108N @uoft (Rescheduled from last winter) #Frenchhistory

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 8

Register here munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/search... & share with your networks, s.v.p.!

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are thrilled to kick off our fall series of talks with Dr. Jean-Olivier Richard, "In search of Père Castel's Philosophy of Princes: Jesuit physico-politics & climate change in e18th-c. France": Fri. Sept. 26, 4pm Munk Ctr. rm 108N @uoft (Rescheduled from last winter) #Frenchhistory

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · Sep 6

Je suis également preneur de toute référence sur la communauté portugaise et le commerce du sucre à Rouen vers les années 1660.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mes amis historiens, je suis à la recherche de la thèse de doctorat suivante. Mon intérêt vient de lettres sur le commerce du sucre à Rouen que j'ai trouvées dans les "Prize Papers". Un historien de la France pourrait-il m'aider à en obtenir une copie ?

Le monde du négoce dans les ports du Ponant sous Richelieu et Mazarin (vers 1625-vers 1660) : les exemples de Bordeaux et de Rouen | Theses.fr

Les commerces bordelais et rouennais etaient assez differents, tant par leurs structures, que par leurs aires geographiques. Tous deux connurent d'importants changements au cours de ces annees 1625 a ...

theses.fr

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 3

As the fall term starts, here is the 2025-26 schedule of French History talks, all in-person this year. Please spread the word and plan to join us in Toronto! (More details will be posted munkschool.utoronto.ca/events/) 🗃️ #frenchhist

Full-year schedule 2025-2026, French History Seminar/ Seminaire d'histoire de France. [organized by University of Toronto and York University.
list of 6 academic talks, all held at the Munk School (U of T), room 108N, from 4-6pm on each of the listed dates.
Sept. 26: Jean-Olivier Richard, University of Toronto
“In search of Père Castel's Philosophy of Princes: Jesuit physico-politics
and climate change in early 18th-century France.
Oct. 24: André Loez, Sciences Po/Lycée Balzac, Paris
“Unsettled voters. Invalid ballots in the first elections by universal male
suffrage in France.”
Nov. 28: Chizuru Namba, Keio University, Tokyo
“Enjeux forestiers et colonisation en Indochine française.”
Jan. 30: Pascal Bastien, UQAM, Montreal “L’orage avant la tempête :
l’affaire Réveillon (27-28 avril 1789) et l’éveil du sans-culotte.”
Feb. 27: Andrew Jainchill, Queen’s University
“A Radical Reformer in the Old Regime: the marquis d’Argenson.”
March 27: Katie Edwards, Tulane University
“Reforming the Republican Empire”

Registration and more details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/events/

with thanks to several local institutions at YorkU and UofT. Organized by: Eric Jennings, University of Toronto, Deborah Neill, Margaret Schotte, York University
Bienvenue à tous!

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Sep 3

As the fall term starts, here is the 2025-26 schedule of French History talks, all in-person this year. Please spread the word and plan to join us in Toronto! (More details will be posted munkschool.utoronto.ca/events/) 🗃️ #frenchhist

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Matt Robertshaw @mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Highlights:
• Editorial regarding Vodou in Haiti 🇭🇹
• War and peace in Dahomey 🇧🇯
• Thoughts on vegetarians 🥗
• Dumas fils plays a prank 🎭
• Electric lighting 💡
• More thoughts on the anti-slavery congress ⛓️
• A pianist with a broken leg 🦵
• US tariff fears 💰
• US imperialism in Haiti 🇺🇸

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Matt Robertshaw @mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

The 7th issue of La Fraternité (🇭🇹🗞️🇫🇷) is now available. Peruse the news from 7 October 1890.

See highlights below.

#HaitianSky #FrenchHistory #Paris1890 #YesterdaysNews

Black Republic of Letters: Year 1, Issue 7 – 7 October 1890

scalar.library.yorku.ca

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Matt Robertshaw @mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social · Aug 12

• Benito Sylvain tackles racism in the press 👊
• Mormons abolish polygamy 💍
• A plea for the Dutch king to join the antislavery effort 🇳🇱
• An exposé on spiritism and hypnotism 🔮
• Fingerprinting technology in China 🇨🇳
• A French musician sued by an American promoter 🎻
• What's on in the theatre?🎭

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Matt Robertshaw @mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social · Aug 12

The 8th issue of La Fraternité (🇭🇹🗞️🇫🇷) is now available. Peruse the news from 14 October 1890.

See highlights below.

#HaitianSky #FrenchHistory #Paris1890 #YesterdaysNews

Black Republic of Letters: Year 1, Issue 8 – 14 October 1890

scalar.library.yorku.ca

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Mar 24

This Friday! #FrHistory #WW2

FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Mar 13

For our final seminar of the year, we are hosting Dr. Olivier Wieviorka. "France en guerre, France dans la guerre: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles approches." March 28, 4-6pm, in person. More info: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/france...

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Mar 13

For our final seminar of the year, we are hosting Dr. Olivier Wieviorka. "France en guerre, France dans la guerre: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles approches." March 28, 4-6pm, in person. More info: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/france...

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Mar 13

For our final seminar of the year, we are hosting Dr. Olivier Wieviorka. "France en guerre, France dans la guerre: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles approches." March 28, 4-6pm, in person. More info: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/france...

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Feb 28

This afternoon! (Don't mind the small amount of snow in the forecast -- the conversation will be warm!)

FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Feb 14

Our next session takes place (in person @UofT) on Feb. 28, 4-6pm EST. Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak (BrockU) will present a talk entitled "The French Pastry Chef, Or: The story of an Alsatian forced conscript in San Francisco." To register, munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/french... #FrHistory 🗃️

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Feb 25

Please join us this Friday afternoon!

FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · Feb 14

Our next session takes place (in person @UofT) on Feb. 28, 4-6pm EST. Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak (BrockU) will present a talk entitled "The French Pastry Chef, Or: The story of an Alsatian forced conscript in San Francisco." To register, munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/french... #FrHistory 🗃️

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