H-France Forum is pleased to announce its latest issue (vol. 21:2), ed. by Venita Datta, Wellesley College, on Stephen W. Sawyer, Demos Rising: Democracy & the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2025. ISBN: 9780226837598.

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 @frenchhistory.bsky.social

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... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

New Open Access article in French History! 🎺🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💾💻🌟 Conner Muller on 'Scottish martyrs, Scotland and internationalism in revolutionary France, 1794–99' academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @conormuller.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

New Open Access article in French History by Howard G. Brown Faction and fiction: political murder, compagnies de Jésus and the limits of justice in the Lyonnais, 1795–1800 academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

And the book is Open Access so here it is... Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France academic.oup.com/book/62521

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Congratulations to all our contributors on their fantastic articles. And big thanks to everyone who gave their time, including all the invisible peer reviewers and most especially @jenniferheuer.bsky.social and @christinehaynes.bsky.social 🙏 @sfhs.bsky.social @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social 7/7

Join us on Wed. April 21 to discuss Thomas Dodman's fine new book, Les Volontaires: Roman familial de la Révolution française. With Sylvaine Guyot, at La Maison Française of NYU, 6:30pm

CFP for French Historical Studies special issue on European-Indigenous relations in the French Americas. Deadline August 31: preview-assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Attention historians of medicine and/or France: according to the @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social email list, moves are underway to dismantle the incredible Medica-Histoire de la santé digital collection (BIU Santé Médicine). Oppose this move by filling out the "Enquête de satisfaction" at the link🗃️

@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriam

Un petit hommage au travail de Jacques Revel, publié en ce jour de funérailles. Les @annales.ehess.fr perdent l’une des grandes figures de la revue.

Join the leadership team at FCHS--a few weeks left to nominate!!

On vous invite à nous faire parvenir des nouvelles et annonces pour publication dans le prochain bulletin de la SHCF. Ces annonces peuvent inclure des publications récentes ou à paraître prochainement, des appels à contributions et/ou communications, des prix et des appels de bourses et subventions.

FCHS invites you to submit any updates or notices of interest for inclusion in the Spring 2026 newsletter. These submissions could include your recent or forthcoming publications, upcoming conferences, book prizes, or calls for fellowships and grants.

🗃️ Merci d’envoyer un courriel à [email protected] au plus tard le 15 avril 2026. 🗃️

🗃️ Please send anything you wish to have included to [email protected] no later than April 15. 🗃️

On 24 April 26 at 10am (GMT-4), FCHS will host a panel that brings together three journal editors and university press director to discuss what makes a good peer review. Register Here: rowan.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

On vous invite à une table ronde virtuelle. À cette séance de la SHCF, il s’agit de trois rédactrices en chef de revues ainsi que la directrice d’une presse universitaire qui vont s’exprimer sur ce qui constitue une évaluation de qualité. Inscrivez-vous ici: rowan.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Use the code 10VABOOKS for 30% off paperback and ebook!

C’est demain à l’ @ehess.fr ! La troisième d’une série de rencontres sur l’œuvre et la postérité de Marc Bloch. Avec @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social et @normalesup.bsky.social

🚨 Le dernier numéro des #Annales est en ligne (avec plusieurs articles en #openaccess): Au sommaire, la guerre d'Algérie, la Saint-Barthélémy, l'abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Près, les sources nativement numériques, le totémisme enfantin. Bonne lecture 📖 ! 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New to the series | 'Jacques-Louis David's drawings' by Tamar Mayer. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/Mayer-OSE #c18 #academicsky📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

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📢 Mise à disposition sur notre site et sur notre carnet du "Dictionnaire de la rue Saint-Honoré et de son cloître pendant la Révolution et l'Empire", patiente enquête de Dominique Waquet sur les immeubles, leurs numérotations et leurs occupants. 🔎 À télécharger ici -> ser.hypotheses.org/3308

Bord plateau après la représentation théâtrale📍Les héros ne dorment jamais📍 🗣️Avec Alain Lenglet, Edith Proust et Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9527 @cnrsshs.bsky.social @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr #AHLoMA 📆1er avril 2026 à 20h30 ▶️ www.comedie-francaise.fr/fr/evenement...

Parution le 27 mars prochain : “Marc Bloch, l’histoire en résistance”, sous la direction de Florian Mazel et Yann Potin, Paris, Seuil, 2026. Cet ouvrage contient également plusieurs correspondances et travaux inédits de Marc Bloch. Plus de détails : lamop.hypotheses.org/15886

Publication – « Royautés », éd. Pascal Buresi, Fanny Consandey, Marie-Laure Derat, Élie Haddad, Corinne Lefèvre, Radu G. Paun, Corinne Péneau, Stéphane Péquignot rmblf.be/2026/03/19/p...

📌Va paraître chez Champ Vallon 📅 20.3.26 📕 📍Voir le passé. Savoir historique et expériences de la vision📍 ✍️ Christian Jouhaud @cnrsshs.bsky.social @crh.ehess.fr @ehess.fr #GRIHL▶️ grihl.ehess.fr/index.php?343 ▶️ www.champ-vallon.com/christian-jo...

Cent dix-septième anniversaire de la naissance de #GabrielleRoy le 22 mars 1909. En 1997, ÉF rapprochait ''Bonheur d'occasion'' et ''Le Survenant'' de #GermaineGuèvremont. revue-etudesfrancaises.umontreal.ca/volume-33-nu... www.leslibraires.ca/livres/etude... www.decitre.fr/ebooks/etude...

The fourth in a series of books of essays on Racine's Theatre, edited by @semfsuk.bsky.social members Nicholas Hammond, Paul Hammond, and Joseph Harris, with essays by many members of the Society, can now be read online via most University library portals: brill.com/display/titl...

The future Henri II, loving his puppy, and painted by court portraitist Jean Clouet whose day is today.

Author, patron, & princess: Marguerite de Navarre, sister of Francis I, in 1527. She's got a parrot too! Painted by Jean Clouet, whose day is today.

We are wrapping up a very stimulating series of talks just as spring is springing. Hope to see you Friday (March 27, in person)!

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🗃️ Les candidatures aux poste de président.e et vice-président.e sont acceptées jusqu'au 3 avril! 🗃️

🗃️ Nominations for President and Vice-President will be accepted until April 3rd! 🗃️

Have you wondered how France tried to craft its representation in the #18thc Mediterranean? Been curious about the role French dragomans played in constructing the boundaries of identity and nationality? Well good news! I wrote an article about it! 🗃️ doi.org/10.14321/fre...

Glad to see this roundtable on Colonisations Notre Histoire out! It was great to read Rose Ndengue, Robert Aldrich, Jennifer Boittin and Brett Rushforth look at the volume from different perspectives, and to have the opportunity to respond to what such a project can and cannot do

New article by Katherine Astbury and Abigail Coppins, 'French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars' Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Just uploaded a recording of the SSFH Douglas Johnson lecture to the society's youtube channel. You can explore some past lectures there as well: www.youtube.com/@societyfort... 🗃️#skystorians

Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊

Last but not least, **free to read for the next few weeks** a forum from @lmebroch.bsky.social @alisoncarrol.bsky.social feat. @lrbobrien.bsky.social Daniel Gordon and @willpooley.bsky.social ‘Blogging French History’ celebrating 10years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (7/7)

My piece re: the 40th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing is officially *out* out, reminding me at a moment when writing is going not great that sometimes I do actually finish things.

Deborah Cohen on charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (3/7)

Louise Alestam on collective violence in fin-de-siècle newspapers doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (4/7)

Elias Forneris on René Cassin and the invention of Free France, 1940-1 doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (5/7)