Volume 10, Issue 20
“The Politics of Fashion in Mid-20th Century France”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “‘A Woman Dressed Like a Man’: Female Masculinity at the Sapphic Cabaret, Paris, 1930-1960”
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Drew Fedorka, New York University, “Dedicated Followers of Fashion?: André Courrèges, Youth, and the Limits of Haute Couture in 1960s Paris”
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Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University, “‘Save the Long Skirt’: Women, Sports, and Fashion in Third Republic and Vichy France”
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Commentary by Steven Zdatny, University of Vermont
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Volume 10, Issue 19
“Understanding War and Foreign Occupation through Archives: Trial Dossiers, Photography and Cinema”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston
Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno, “Archives as Fieldwork Sites: An Anthropologist’s Perspective”
Video
Abigail Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Secrets of Film: Rethinking Occupation through Visual Archives”
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Commentary by Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University
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Volume 10, Issue 18
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Lecture: “‘Without Distinction of… Sex’: The Constitutional Politics of Race and Sex in Contemporary France”
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Lecture at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of French and of History and Director of French and Francophone Studies, Columbia University
Video
Volume 10, Issue 17
“Order and Disorder in 18th-Century Paris: Stories from the Châtelet Criminal Court”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: Nina Rattner Gelbart, Occidental College
Kathryn Norberg, University of California-Los Angeles, “From the Châtelet Court: ‘Seduction,’ Madams and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Video
Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Prosecution and Toleration of Sodomy in the 1720s”
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Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “‘Seditious’ Politics on the Eve of the October Days: Voices from the Palais Royal”
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Commentary by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
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Volume 10, Issue 16
“Scientific Fieldwork in France and the World in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 3, 2018
Chair: April Shelford, American University
Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, “Linnaeus and the Practice of Fieldwork in Revolutionary France”
Video
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, “‘The neighborhood would be very interesting for a botanist to visit,’ or André Michaux, French Botanist in the American Field”
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Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “In the Field with Charles-Alexandre Lesueur: Considering Imperial and National Sciences”
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Commentary by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina
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Volume 10, Issue 15
“Painting, History, and Constructions of Cultural Identity in Early Modern France”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University
Lynn Mollenauer, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Femme Forte and Femme Fatale: Posing ‘En Cléopâtre’ in the Ancien Regime”
Video
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University, “Cortegaerdje/Corps de Garde: Watteau and the Dutch Origins of Military Enlightenment”
Video
Valerie Mainz, University of Leeds, “Observation, Science and Experimentation in David’s double portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier”
Video
Commentary by Christine Adams, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
Video
Volume 10, Issue 14
“Border Crossings: Aristocratic Masculinities at the Fin de Siècle”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Patrick Luiz Sullivan de Oliveira, Princeton University, “‘Ce gentlemen rider du turf atmosphérique‘ [sic]: Aristocratic Masculinity and Ballooning in Turn-of-the-Century France”
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Venita Datta, Wellesley College, “Aristocratic Masculinities on the Global Frontier: The Marquis de Morès and Theodore Roosevelt”
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Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, “College Dueling at a Distance, 1901: Politics, Honor, Manhood, and Exile in the ‘Affaire Buffet-Déroulède'”
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Commentary by Catherine Clark, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Volume 10, Issue 13
“Intersectionality in French Visual Culture”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Johann Le Guelte, The Pennsylvania State University
Sun-Young Park, George Mason University, “Representing Disability, 1750-1850”
Video
Richard D. Sonn, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “Jewish Artists and Masculinity in France, 1914-1918”
Video
Zachary R. Hagins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Visual Dialectics of Islam and French National Identity in France Keyser’s Nous sommes français et musulmans”
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Commentary by Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Volume 10, Issue 12
“Reform and Crisis in the Early French Revolution”
Panel Session at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 2, 2018
Chair: Meghan Roberts, Bowdoin College
Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College, “Brutus and Benghazi on the Seine: Executive Power and Classical Analogy in 1790”
Video
Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, “From crise salutaire to j’ai vécu: The Emotional and Conceptual Politics of Crisis in Revolutionary France”
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Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri, “La Société des amis des noirs and the International Genesis of French Social Movements”
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Commentary by Mette Harder, State University of New York Oneonta
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Volume 10, Issue 11
The Tallahassee Report and Graduate Training in French History
April 13-14, 2018
On April 13 and 14, 2018, approximately 35 doctoral students and their faculty advisors working on Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French history met at Florida State University to examine how doctoral education in this broad field has changed in the U.S. in recent years and to identify ways teaching, research, and the job search might be reconfigured in light of these changes. Together they represented 20 of the American universities currently granting doctoral degrees in this area of French history; observers from France and the UK were also present. The Tallahassee Report is the result of that meeting. In it the group identifies key challenges and puts forward some suggestions for how to address them. Over the summer the report was shared with several historians who did not participate in the meeting and represent a range of generations, institutions, and perspectives. Their responses are presented here along with the report with the aim of initiating a conversation on these important issues among the H-France community at large. We welcome your comments.
#2 Some Reflections on De-specialization at a Small Graduate Program
Junko Takeda
Syracuse University
#3 Recommendations from the Teaching Trenches: Supporting Graduate Students and Junior Scholars in Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French Studies
Laura Talamante
California State University, Dominguez Hills
#4 On the Tallahassee Report
Julia M. Gossard
Utah State University
#5 Plus ça change
Lynn Hunt
UCLA
#6 On the Tallahassee Report:
Is It Time for Re-Specialization?
J.P. Daughton
Stanford University
#7 Enjamber l’Atlantique. Réflexions sur le Tallahassee Report
François-Joseph Ruggiu
Sorbonne Université & CNRS
Volume 10, Issue 10
Keynote Presentation: “Telling the Truth about the Resistance”
Keynote presentation at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary College, University of London
Video | MP3
Volume 10, Issue 9
“Violence and Delinquency in the late Third Republic”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota, “Colonial Violence in Paris: Fascism, Jean Ferrandi, and Colonial Officers in the 1930s”
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Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary, “Vulnerable Delinquents: Childhood and Criminality in the Interwar Period”
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Chris Millington, Swansea University, read by Joshua Cole, “Brutes and Bludgeoners: Policing Interwar France”
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Commentary by Vicki Caron, Cornell University
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Volume 10, Issue 8
“Clerical Identities and Empire in Early Modern France”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
Megan Armstrong, McMaster University, “French Franciscans, Bourbon imperialism and the early modern Holy Land”
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Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, “The Jesuit Career of René Robert Cavalier de La Salle”
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Commentary by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester
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Volume 10, Issue 7
“Conceptualizing Transparency in French History”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2018
Chair: Timothy Scott Johnson, Texas A & M Corpus Christi
Michael Behrent, Appalachian State University, “Patterns, Webs, and Warps: Geroulanos’ Methodology”
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Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, “Framing Transparency: Algeria, UNESCO, and Post-1945 France”
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Commentary by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
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Volume 10, Issue 6
Plenary Luncheon: “Indigenizing New France: What’s Left?”
Plenary luncheon at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
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Volume 10, Issue 5
“Revolutionary Emotions: Panic, Frustration and Enthusiasm 1789– 1799”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Chair: Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, “Turbans of Liberty: Revolutionary Enthusiasm and Global Emotions”
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Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine, “The Panic of May 1792”
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Rebecca Spang, Indiana University, “Taxes, Offices, Deadlines: Frustration as a Revolutionary Emotion”
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Commentary by Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
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Volume 10, Issue 4
“Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality in the Belle Époque”
Panel session at the 64rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9, 2018
Chair: Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester, “The Single Standard or the Double Standard? Public Debates over Proper Sexual Relations between Men and Women during the Belle Époque”
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Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, “Charles Turgeon’s Le Féminisme français (1902): An analysis of the work and its reception”
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Sara Kimble, DePaul University, “‘Les injustices de nos lois’: Feminist Legal Thought and Practice in the Belle Époque”
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Commentary by Linda Clark, Millersville University
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Volume 10, Issue 3
“Interpreting May ’68”
Edited by Chris Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University
As part of its continuing series of issues focused on ’68, the current issue of H-France Salon presents excellent essays by Julian Bourg, Boston College, and Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University. These two essays respond to a forum entitled “May ’68: New Approaches, New Perspectives” in volume 51, issue 2 of French Historical Studies edited by Donald Reid and Daniel J. Sherman. The essays extend the discussion and debate found in the original six essays.
Christopher Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University, “Introduction”
Julian Bourg, Boston College, “Still, It Moves: May ’68 at Fifty”
Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University, “Commentary on French Historical Studies Special Issue: May ‘68: New Approaches, New Perspectives”
Volume 10, Issue 2
H-France Webinar: “Early Modern Capitalism”
April 4, 2018
Moderator: Camille Robcis, Cornell University
Invited Participants:
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University
Charly Coleman, Columbia University
Video available HERE
Volume 10, Issue 1
“Le Cas ’68”
As part of its recognition of the 50th anniversary of May ’68, H-France Salon has teamed up with students in Chris Reynolds’ course on May ’68 at Nottingham Trent University to produce a historical blog of those dramatic months. These blog entries address many of the key events and people that marked the spring of 1968 and provide both descriptions of various issues and people and links to more detailed information. The blog begins on March 22 and then picks up again on May 3, charting pivotal moments of these seminal events. Twelve blog entries were published during these months. We encourage you to share these blogs with your students and with anyone interested in learning more about Le Cas ’68 in France.
Home – May 68
March 22
May 3
May 10
May 13
May 14
May 24
May 27
May 29
May 30
June 10
June 14
June 23
Special thanks to Dr. Agathe Zobenbuller for all her work in supporting the students on this project.