H-France Salon, Volume 8 (2016)

Volume 8, Issue 19

“Accommodating Vichy and the Germans in Occupied France”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016

Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston

Sandra Ott, University of Nevada – Reno, “A Pro-Vichy Mayor and Indiscreet Ladies: Cohabitation and Accommodation in a Basque Village”
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Brett Bowles, Indiana University, Bloomington, “À la recherche de Marcel Pagnol sous l’Occupation”
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Audra Merfeld-Langston, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “Confronting an Uncomfortable Past: Representations of Vichy France in Marcel Aymé’s Le Vin de Paris
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Commentary by Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Volume 8, Issue 18

“Emotions and Regime Change II: Revolutionary Emotions”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016

Chair: John W. McCormack, Aurora University

James Coons, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “The Sentimental Politics of the Princely Fronde”
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Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University, “Memories of Fear in the Early French Revolution”
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Whitney Walton, Purdue University, “Elite Women’s Stakes in Regime Changes During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras”
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Commentary by Judith Miller, Emory University
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Volume 8, Issue 17

“Regime Change and Money: Uncertain Futures I”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 5, 2016

Chair: Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tabetha Ewing, Bard College, “False Coinage in an Eighteenth-Century Borderland”
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Andrew Billing, Macalester College, “Melancholic Markets: Commerce, Property, and bonheur in Diderot’s Economic Writings”
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Masano Yamashita, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Chance Encounters and Fortuna: Manon as Worker and ‘Nothing’ in l’Abbé Prévost’s Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
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Dean Ferguson, Texas A and M University—Kingsville, “Rags and Money: Chiffonniers and Consumers in the Long Eighteenth Century”
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Commentary by Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame
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Volume 8, Issue 16

“History Beyond the Archive: Exploring the Potential of Digital Tools to Excavate Unseen Connections and Overturn Existing Scholarship”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016

Chair: Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University

David Del Testa, Bucknell University, “Using Social Network Analysis Software in French Studies: The Example of the 1930-31 Nghe-Tinh Soviets Uprising in French Colonial Indochina”
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Jillian Slaight, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Sex and the Limits of Solidarity: Google Mapping Mobile Women in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
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Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University, “Googling Eighteenth-Century News: The Affiches de Bordeaux, 1758-1865”
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Commentary by Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Volume 8, Issue 15

“The Circulation of Goods and Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic”
Panel Session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016

Chair: Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University

Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College – City University of New York, “Visualizing Colonial Trade and Commodities in Early Modern Paris”
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Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Caribbean Coffee, French Culture: Circulating Knowledge Between Colony and Metropole, 1715-1789”
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Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri, “The Gens de couleur, Voting Rights, and the Spread of Social Movement Models in Late Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1789-1791″
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Commentary by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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Volume 8, Issue 14

Plenary Luncheon: “Exit, Voice, Provocation: Menace and Vulnerability in Colonial and Contemporary France”
Plenary luncheon at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016

Joshua H. Cole, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Video available HERE

Volume 8, Issue 13

Plenary/Conference Roundtable III: “Crisis in French History”
Roundtable session at the 44th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016

Participants:

John Merriman, Yale University
Lloyd Kramer, University of Norther Carolina
Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University

Volume 8, Issue 12

“The Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française: Changing Time”
Edited by Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris

The Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française (IHRF) is an organization that has long played a central role welcoming Anglophone scholars into the French academic world. The IHRF, however, currently is undergoing significant institutional changes. H-France has taken this moment in the IHRF’s history to prepare a salon, edited by Stephen Sawyer, in which four scholars reflect upon their experiences with the IHRF. While there are many conflicting views on the changes the IHRF faces, we hope these pieces will highlight the important role the IHRF has served as an academic and intellectual center.

The salon begins with a brief introduction:

Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris, “‘My IHRF’: Thoughts from Across the Pond

The salon then continues with four essays:

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky, “The Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française in World-Historical Perspective

Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “My IHRF: From the Bicentennaire to the 21st Century

David A. Bell, Princeton University, “My IHRF

Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine, “L’Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française

Volume 8, Issue 11

“Thermidor: A Collaboration between French Historical Studies and H-France”
Edited by Jean-Luc Chappey, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine

The February 2015 and August 2016 issues of French Historical Studies presented a two-part forum entitled “Thermidor and the French Revolution” edited by Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University. H-France has developed an issue of H-France Salon to continue the conversation on the important articles in this forum.

The salon begins with a brief introduction:

Jean-Luc Chappey, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, “Introduction

The salon then continues with two essays reflecting on the articles in the SFHS Forum:

Philippe Bourdin, Université Blaise-Pascal, “Continuité historique et écriture immédiate des événements révolutionnaires post-thermidoriens

Hervé Leuwers, Université Lille 3 – UMR IRHiS, “Interroger le 9 Thermidor et ses suites

The salon then concludes with a written conversation between Mason and Chappey on the issues raised in the original forum and the salon:

Jean-Luc Chappey and Laura Mason, “Le moment thermidorien – un « laboratoire politique » ?

Volume 8, Issue 10

Banquet Plenary: “Le Spectacle de la Résistante: Female Dress and Gender Transformation”
Dinner banquet plenary at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016

Introduction: Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University

Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin
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Volume 8, Issue 9

Roundtable: “Theatrical Sites in the Eighteenth Century”
Roundtable session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016

Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University

Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “Celebrity Women and a Judgmental Public: The Merveilleuses under the Directory”
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Mita Choudhury, Vassar College, “Performing Faith: Religious Spectacle, Authenticity, and the Public”
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Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Public Spectacle, Revolution, and Conscription”
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James A. Johnson, Boston University, “Life as Theater in Eighteenth-Century France”
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Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University, “Conspiracy as Theater during the French Revolution”
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Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Performing…and Spectating, Writing, and Reading”
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Commentary by audience
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Volume 8, Issue 8

“Amazons, Murderers, Neighborhood Toughs, and Husband Beaters: Women’s Use of Violence in Early Modern France”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016

Chair: Clare Crowston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jacob Melish, University of Northern Colorado, “‘Gave a Large Number of Kicks and Punches’: Women’s Violence and the Responses to it in Seventeenth-Century Paris”
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Julia Osman, Mississippi State University, “‘With a Man’s Valor’: Amazons on the French Battlefield and Imagination, 1630-1700”
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Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College, “After the Royal Pardon: Female Murderers Come Home in the Eighteenth Century”
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Nina Kushner, Clark University, “Female Violence, Cuckoldry, and Constructions of Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
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Commentary by Julius Ruff, Marquette University and audience
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Volume 8, Issue 7

“‘L’Empire colonial dans tous ses états’: Reshaping ‘la mission civilisatrice’ in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Textbooks”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 5, 2016

Chair: Joel Vessels, Nassau Community College

Joel Vessels, Nassau Community College, “Tarzan in France: From Rejection to Revelation – First a Corrupter of Youth, Now the Way Towards Living Poetically”
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Christopher Thompson, Ball State University, “A New, Post-colonial ‘Roman National’? Teaching the Empire and its Legacies in Contemporary France”
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Sandra Rousseau, Carleton College, “Graphic Irony and Provocative History in Petite histoire des colonies françaises (2012)”
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Commentary by Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University and audience
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Volume 8, Issue 6

Plenary Roundtable: “The Work of Roger Chartier”
Plenary roundtable at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016

Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University, “Introduction”
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Lynn Hunt, UCLA, “The Precarious Cutting Edge”
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Robert Darnton, Harvard University, “Roger Chartier: Book Historian”
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Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London, “Roger Chartier sans frontières”
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Response by Roger Chartier
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Commentary by audience
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Volume 8, Issue 5

“Sentiment and Statecraft: Political and Emotional Regimes in France, 1789-1848”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016

Chair: Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University

Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, “Designing a Sentimental Regime in Revolutionary France, 1789-1791”
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Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, “Terror and Reassurance in the Year II”
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Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Familial Love, Hierarchy, and Politics in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair of 1847”
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Commentary by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University
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Volume 8, Issue 4

Plenary Luncheon: “France and the World”
Plenary luncheon at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016

J.P. Daughton, Stanford University, “Introduction”
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Brett Rushforth, College of William and Mary
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Alice Conklin, Ohio State University
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Commentary by audience
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Volume 8, Issue 3

Roundtable: “Consumer Cultures and Material Goods in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France”
Roundtable session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016

Chair: Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University

Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, “Coral Cordials and Pearl Juleps: Fashion and Fraud in the Seventeenth-Century Medical Marketplace”
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Kirsten James, University of Toronto, “Inside the Perfumer’s Boutique in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Paris”
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Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, “Making Coffee French: Establishing a Material Culture for Coffee in France, 1670-1780”
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Carolyn Purnell, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Drinking Your Way to a New You: Self-Medication, Sensibility, and Sociability at the Café”
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Sydney Watts, University of Richmond, “Provisioning for Health: Comparing Lenten Butcheries across Eighteenth-Century Urban France”
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Commentary by audience
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Volume 8, Issue 2

“Marriage: Ideals, Practices, and New Critics”
Panel session at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4, 2016

Chair: Michelle Rhoades, Wabash College

Andrea Mansker, University of the South, “Marriage and the Politics of Police Repression under the Empire”
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Anne Verjus, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, “Marriage under the Code Napoléon: A New Social Problem?”
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Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University, “A Woman’s Critique of Marriage: Pauline Roland’s Lived Challenge to Bourgeois Domesticity”
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Commentary by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
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Volume 8, Issue 1

David Bien: In Memoriam
Gail Bossenga
, Elizabethtown College