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.

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). h-france.net/h-france-for...

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. h-france.net/h-france-for...

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...

Last FHS issue of 2025! 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...

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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]

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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... 🗃️

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-...

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: www.auphf.ac.uk/news-events

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!

Hey Bluesky: We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

Beautiful review by @plso.bsky.social of Tyler Stovall's last book 💔 #NearAndFar, from @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social. h-france.net/vol25reviews...

H-France Salon announces a new issue (17: 1) on "The Myth of French Taste." Edited by Oliver Wunsch & w/contributions by Natacha Coquery, Benjamin Poole, Sophie Kurkdjian, Shana Cooperstein, Linda Stratford, & Grace Allen, the Salon explores how 'French taste' has been defined & redeployed over time

1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.

H-France Forum announces its newest issue (20:6) on Geoffrey Turnovsky, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2024. ISBN: 9781503637214 (hb); 978150363916 (eb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

Very excited for this semester's NCFS Unbound events (@ncfsassn.bsky.social). This is a great chance to hear from lots of fantastic 19th-century scholars who’ll be discussing their new books! Find out more here: ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-capt...

H-France Salon CFP: Beyond the “Degas Dilemma”: Dance-Sculpture Encounters in Francophone Contexts, Past & Present Guest editors: Juliet Bellow (American Univ.) and Madison Mainwaring (Univ. of Notre Dame) Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025

H-France Forum announces its most recent issue (vol. 20:5) on Antónia Szabari, Agents without Empire: Mobility & Race-Making in 16th-Century France. NY: Fordham Univ. Pr., 2024. xii+294 pp. ISBN 978-1-5315-0666-7 (cl), 978-1-5315-0667-4 (pb), 978-1-5315-0668-1 (eb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

"[FROM NEAR AND FAR is] a highly readable monograph that will be especially of use for undergraduate students in advanced seminars," writes Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira for H-France. h-france.net/vol25reviews...

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

This was really interesting to work on alongside Elisa Jones, Sophie Nicholls, John O'Brien, @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social, and Paul-Alexis Mellet too – an important book with wide implications, and lots to explore in the discussion

cc: @tombhamilton.bsky.social @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social

IMAGINARIES announces vol. 15:2, "Off the Beaten Path" The films & texts reviewed here offer alternate understandings of metropolitan France, taking novel approaches to environmental, social, & racial challenges weighing on modern France & finding space for hope h-france.net/imaginaries/...

Pleased to see the publication of my short piece on Alice Diop’s Nous for H-France’s Imaginaries h-france.net/imaginaries/... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

H-France Forum is pleased to announce its newest issue (20:4) on Paul-Alexis Mellet, Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion (France, v.1557-v. 1603) Geneva: Droz, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-600-06336-4 (pb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

What an absolute dream to have a Paris launch for my new book. And so lovely to be surrounded by friends and fellow French historians, many of whom (incl @willpooley.bsky.social) I’d never had the chance to meet in person before #GCFHSResist 🗃

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

I've had a brilliant time at #GCFHSResist - rich, engaging papers and lots of brilliant colleagues. It was all pulled off with a riotous panache as well! Chapeau to the organisers and to Luc and Solveig for being brilliant hosts! Now for a few days off

#GCFHSResist It was such a pleasure to meet/catch up with so many wonderful scholars in French history! Although French history/history/academia faces so many challenges, there is an abundance of kindness and generosity within the community that will help us face those challenges together.

What a pleasure to celebrate @brionyneilson.bsky.social’s new “Dangers of Youth” at #GCFHSResist fringe event yest evening with appreciations from Natalia Muchnik and Charlotte Legg. A timely+sobering reminder of continuing relations between state/youth/repression/military in France 🗃️ #FRHistory

Delighted to share vol. 12 of French History & Culture is now published! Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons. All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

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!