January/Janvier Reviews
Jennifer J. Davis, Bad Subjects. Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1815. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. xii + 352 pp. Notes, illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1496207890.
Review by Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (January 2025), No. 1.
James S. Williams, Frantz Fanon. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 9781789148312; £12.99 (eb). ISBN 9781789148350.
Review by Miron Clay-Gilmore, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (January 2025), No. 2.
February/Février Reviews
Alain Cantillon, ed. Lettres à Pascal. Vincennes: Éditions Thierry Marchaisse, 2023. 240 pp. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-36280-301-7; €13.99 (eb). ISBN 978-2-36280-302-4.
Review by Chad Córdova, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (February 2025), No. 3.
Josef W. Konvitz, Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022. Volume 1. New York: Routledge, 2023. xxxii + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $144.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781032505893; $35.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003399179.
Josef W. Konvitz, Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022. Volume 2. New York: Routledge, 2023. xxii + 399 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $190.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781032505916; $35.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003399186.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, Duke Kunshan University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (February 2025), No. 4.
Virgile Cirefice, “L’espoir quotidien”: cultures et imaginaires socialistes en France et en Italie (1944-1949). Rome: École française de Rome, 2022. vii + 580 pp. Annexes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. €35.00. (pb). ISBN 9782728315314; €9.90. ISBN 9782728315505 (eb).
Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (February 2025), No. 5.
Olivier Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. viii + 443. Note on sources, notes, acknowledgments, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780691173979; $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780691254142; $26.95 U.S. (ebook). ISBN 9780691235455.
Review by Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (February 2025), No. 6.
March/Mars Reviews
Amélie Puche, Les femmes à la conquête de l’université (1870-1940). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2022. 404 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, and index. €39.00. (pb). ISBN 9782343250113; €39.99. (pdf). ISBN 9782140238475; €39.99. (epub). ISBN 9782140238482.
Review by Sara L. Kimble, DePaul University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 7.
Vincent Denis, Policiers de Paris, Les commissaires de police en Révolution (1789-1799). Paris: Champ Vallon, 2022. 384 pp. Notes, references, and maps. €27.00. (pb). ISBN 9791026710905.
Review by Colin Jones, Emeritus, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 8.
Arnaud Orain, Les savoirs perdus de l’économie: contribution à l’équilibre du vivant. Paris: Gallimard, 2023. 384 pp. Notes, references, and index. €22.50 (pb). ISBN 978-2-07-292510-8.
Review by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 9.
Thierry de Duve, Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 456 pp. 156 ill, 69 in colour. £30.00 (hb). ISBN 9781789146981.
Review by Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University of Wellington.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 10.
Stéphanie Soubrier, Races guerrières: Enquête sur une catégorie impériale 1850-1918. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2023. 443 pp. Illustrations, maps, and graphs. €26.00. (pb). ISBN 9782271137760; €2.00. (eb). ISBN 9782271137764.
Review by Michael A. Osborne, Oregon State University and University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 11.
Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ix + 502 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781316515617; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781009012553; $29.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781009027762.
Compte-rendu par Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Cité.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 12.
Alyce Mahon, The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 296 pp. $52.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0691141619; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0691264622.
Review by Effie Rentzou, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 13.
Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant, eds., A History of Economic Thought in France. The Long Nineteenth Century. Milton Park: Routledge, 2024. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations and index. $220.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9-78-0367194444; $43.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0429202407.
Review by Elizabeth Sage, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 14.
Helena Duffy, The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction. Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics. Cambridge: Legenda-Research Monographs in French Studies 64, 2022. x + 260 pp. Notes, references, and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1781888186.
Review by France Grenaudier-Klijn, Massey University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 15.
Toby Norris, Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars. Vancouver and Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2023. xvii + 291 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781683932482; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781683932499.
Review by Kate Kangaslahti, KU Leuven.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 16.
Elliot Evans, The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020. xi + 176 pp. Notes and index. $144.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367142360; $54.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032336121; $43.99 U.S. (ebook). ISBN 9780429030840.
Review by Daniel Maroun, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 17.
Zakir Paul, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Viii + 278 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780691257976; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0691257983; $39.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0691261539.
Review by Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 18.
Alan Hollinghurst and Xavier F. Salomon, Fragonard’s Progress of Love. New York, NY: The Frick Collection; in association with Lewes, UK: D Giles Limited, 2022. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1911282983.
Review by Satish Padiyar, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 19
Laurent Fedi, Bertrand Nouailles et Alain Petit, dir., Le problème de l’erreur dans la philosophie française, d’Auguste Comte à Gaston Bachelard. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2023. 302 pp. €23.00. (pb). ISBN 9782383770930; €17.00. (pdf). ISBN 9782383770947.
Compte-rendu par Pierre André, New York University Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 20.
Marc Belissa and Yannick Bosc, eds. Découvrir Saint-Just. Paris: Les Éditions sociales, 2024. 184 pp. Notes and references. €12.00. (pb). ISBN: 9782353671083.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 21.
Fabio Bolzonar, Catholicism and the Welfare State in Secular France: Continuities and Changes in the Catholic Mobilizations in the Social Policy Domain (1940-2017). Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023. 224 pp. Notes, references, and index. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9462703884.
Review by James Chappel, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (March 2025), No. 22.
April/Avril Reviews
Laura Hobson Faure, A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. 370 pp. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0253059666; $30.00 U.S. (pb). 9-78-0253059680; ISBN $29.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0253059697.
Review by Ludivine Broch, University of Westminster.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 23.
Côme Simien, Le maître d’école du village, au temps des Lumières et de la Révolution. Aubervilliers: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2023. 476 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and bibliography. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7355-0959-1.
Review by Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 24.
Dominique Cordellier, dir. Diane en son paradis d’Anet. Tapisseries et vitraux de l’Histoire de Diane du château d’Anet, programme et dessins. Paris : Le Passage, 2021. 256 pp. Références, 140 illustrations en couleur, et index. €35.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-84742-474-4.
Compte-rendu par Pascal-François Bertrand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 25.
Kathy Comfort, Representations of Marginalized Populations in French WWI Literature. Lanham and London: Lexington Books, 2023. 183 pp. Bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1666916362; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1666916379.
Review by Julia Ribeiro Thomaz, Université de Lille.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 26.
Guillaume Peureux, Poèmes dans la rue : après les tueries du 13 novembre 2015. Paris : Éditions Hermann, 2022. 162 pp. Notes et éléments de bibliographie. 162 pp. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9791037019547.
Compte-rendu par Cécile Barth-Rabot, Université Paris Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 27.
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2022. xii + 224 pp. Notes, references, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780810144712; $38.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780810144705; Open Access (eb). ISBN 9780810144729.
Review by Ziona Kocher, University of Tennessee.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 28.
Geneviève Rousselière, Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 256 pp. Notes, references, and index. £25.99 (pb). ISBN 9781009477277; £80.00 (hb). ISBN 9781009477314; $34.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781009477307.
Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 29.
Sophie Fuggle, France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. xii + 227 pp. Notes, references, and index. $104.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781837644780; $104.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781837644506.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 30.
Micah Alpaugh, The People’s Revolution of 1789. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2024. ix + 391 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.95 U.S. (hc.) ISBN 9-78-150176625.
Review by David Andress, University of Portsmouth.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 31.
Laurent Cuvelier, La Ville captivée. Affichage et publicité au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Flammarion, 2024. 367 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2080464033.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 32.
Brenda Lynn Edgar, Le Motif Éphémère. Ornement Photographique et Architecture au XXe siècle, preface by Claude Massu. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020. 395 pp. 170 b/w and 23 color illustrations, Bibliography, Index. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753580800.
Review by Louise Arizzoli, University of Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 33.
David G. Haglund, Sister Republics: Security Relations between America and France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. 312 pp. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-780807179017.
Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 34.
Lucy Whelan, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 232 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300258868.
Review by Simon Kelly, Saint Louis Art Museum.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 35.
Jennifer Rushworth, Proust’s Songbook: Songs and Their Uses. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 334 pp. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781512825961; $69.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781512825978.
Compte-rendu par Cécile Leblanc, Sorbonne-Nouvelle.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 36.
Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, and Matthew Gerber, eds. Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: “The King Is Listening.” Routledge Research in Early Modern History. New York: Routledge, 2021. ix + 365. List of contributors, notes, and index. $190.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367508067; $59.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-067508074; $51.29 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1003051367.
Review by Jakob Burnham, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (April 2025), No. 37.
May/Mai Reviews
Christopher J. Lane, Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France. Montreal, London, and Chicago, ILL: McGill-Queens University Press, 2021. Xvii + 178 pp. Notes, references, and index. $129.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780228008545. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780228008552. $34.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780228009764.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, Adelphi University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 38.
Marianne Thivend, Ces femmes qui comptent: Le genre de l’enseignement commercial en France au XIXe siècle. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2024. 320 pp. Notes, maps, references, and index. €22.00. (pb). ISBN 9782729714390.
Review by Linda L. Clark, emerita, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 39.
Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. xv + 207 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-271-09680-3.
Review by Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 40.
Philippe Bordes, Jacques Louis David, la traite négrière et l’esclavage, son séjour à Nantes, mars-avril 1790. Paris: Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art (DFK Paris), 2023. 175 pp. 44 halftones, notes, and index. $15.00 U.S. ISBN 978-2-735129683.
Review by Marika Takanishi Knowles, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 41.
Don Fader, Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and the Prince de Vaudémont. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and New York: Boydell, 2021. xviii + 343 pp. Figures, tables, musical examples, bibliography, and index. £65.00 / $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1783276288; £24.99 / $29.95 U.S. (eb). EPDF: ISBN 9-78-1800102798. EPUB: ISBN 9-78-1800102804.
Review by Hedy Law, University of British Columbia.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 42.
Sabrina Bouarour, “It’s so queer!”: Les masculinités dans les films de Vincente Minnelli et de Jacques Demy. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2023. xii + 341 pp. Bibliography and index. $75.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-80079-285-2; $75.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-80079-286-9.
Review by Alistair Fox, University of Otago.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (May 2025), No. 43.
June/Juin Reviews
Tyler Stovall, From Near and Far: A Transnational History of France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xiii + 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1496232809; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1496231505; $30.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1496233929.
Review by Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, School of Humanities, IE University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 44.
Gino Raymond, France Since the Liberation: Between Exceptionalism and Convergence. Abingdon, New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. viii + 255 pp. Notes, references, and index. $190.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781032637433; $35.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781032637495.
Review Emile Chabal, Universit of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 45.
Pascal Bastien, ed., Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Oxford: Liverpool University Press for the Voltaire Foundation, 2024. xiii + 402 pp. Notes, references, and index. $99.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781835536766.
Review by Nicole Bauer, University of Tulsa.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 46.
Lorenzo Cuccoli, The Technical Corps Between France and Italy, 1750-1814. New York: Springer Nature; Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xv + 271 pp. $139.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-3031682247; $119.99 U.S. (eb). 9-78-3031682254.
Review by Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 47.
Norman Bryson, Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France. Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Research Institute, 2023. vii + 343 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-60606-771-0.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 48.
Patrick Spero, The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024. viii + 334 pp. Notes and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780813952185; $32.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780813952192.
Review by Philipp Ziesche, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 49.
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d’Aulnoy, Travels into Spain. Edited and translated by Gabrielle M. Verdier. New York and Toronto: Iter Press, 2022. ix + 303 pp. Notes, references, and index. $54.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781649590572; $54.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781649590589.
Review by Ezequiel Borgognoni, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 50.
Rebecca Terese Powers, Balzac on the Barricades: The Literary Origins of an Economic Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024. xii + 228 pp. References and index. $32.50 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780813951409; $32.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780813951416; $115.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780813951393.
Review by Melanie Conroy, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 51.
Charlotte Faucher, Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power: Projections and Perceptions of France in Britain c. 1880-1944. Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv + 238 pp. Notes, references, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780197267318.
Review by Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, University of Massachusetts Boston.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (June 2025), No. 52.
July/Juillet Reviews
Pascale Bermon and Dominique Poirel, eds., La cathédrale immortelle? Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 230 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503599663; €40.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-503599724.
Review by Michael T. Davis, Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (July 2025), No. 53.
Brock Cutler, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. xii + 224 pp. Notes, references, and index. $65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4962-3253-3.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (July 2025), No. 54.
August/Août Reviews
Rahul Markovits, A Passage to Europe: The Global Politics of Mobility in the Age of Revolutions. Ranikhet: Permanent Black and Ashoka University, 2023. xx + 369 pp. ₹995.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-8178246666.
Review by Elizabeth Cross, Georgetown University
H-France Review Vol. 25 (August 2025), No. 55.
Guilhem Farrugia, ed., Influences de Baudelaire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025. 392 pp. Index. €26.00. (pb). ISBN 9-78-2753596863.
Review by Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (August 2025), No. 56.
Will Visconti, Beyond the Moulin Rouge: The Life and Legacy of La Goulue. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. xv + 294 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780813946801; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780813946818; $27.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780813946825.
Review by Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (August 2025), No. 57.
September/Septembre Reviews
Anne E. Duggan, The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 260 pp. Illustrations and index. $25.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1 78914-769-8.
Review by Wendy C. Turgeon, St. Joseph’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 58.
Xavier Maréchaux, Pie VII: Le pape qui défia Napoléon. Paris: Passés composés, 2024. 312 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, indices for names and places, remerciements, and table of contents. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-3793-3460-3.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 59.
Response by Xavier Marechaux, State University of New York (Old Westbury).
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 60.
Jeffrey M. Leichman & Karine Bénac-Giroux eds., Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. xii + 391 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800348042.
Review by Linsey Sainte-Claire, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 61.
Richard D. Sonn, Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. xi + 378 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $117.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781350185319; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781350286610; $28.76 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781350185333.
Review by Toby Norris, Assumption University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 62.
Caroline Vout and Christopher Young, eds. Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2024. 207 pp. Illustrations and notes. $40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-1-913645601.
Review by Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 63.
David A. Bell and Colin Jones, eds., French Revolutionary Lives. London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. ix + 249 pp. Notes, references, and index. $159.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9783031605246; $119.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9783031605222.
Review by Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 64.
Yannick Bosc and David Casassas, La liberté contre le capitalisme. Le républicanisme du XVIIIe siècle et les révolutions à venir. Paris: Éditions Critiques, 2024. xi + 275 pp. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 9782487232006.
Review by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 65.
Jessica Tanner, Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2023. ix + 278 pp. Notes, references, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780810145849; $65.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780810145856.
Review by Courtney Sullivan, Washburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 66.
Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude (XVIe–XXIe siècle). Paris: Flammarion, 2025. 368 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €23.90. (pb). ISBN 978-2-080466570.
Review by Nicolas Brisset, Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 67.
Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Le cas Blanche-Neige. Réception d’un conte littéraire. Lecture sociopoétique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2024. 331 pp. Notes, references, and index. Thirty-one illustrations. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782383772842; €16.00 (pdf). ISBN 9782383772859.
Review by Cristina Mazzoni, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 68.
Adina Balint and Sara Buekens, eds., Les ambiances dans les littératures de langue française du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024. vii + 224 pp. $39.00 C.A.D. (pb). ISBN 9782766304578; $32.00 C.A.D. (epub). ISBN 9782766304592.
Review by Jill Cornish, Baylor University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 69.
Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen, Chanteloup, the Renaissance Garden of the Villeroys: An Initiation to Humanism. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2022. 352pp. Illustrations, notes, references, and index. $78.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-06230-5.
Review by Sara Wellman, University of Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 70.
Morgane Cadieu, On Both Sides of the Tracks. Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 362 pp. Notes, références et index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780226827124. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780226830360; $29.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780226830353.
Compte-rendu par Sara De Balsi, CY Cergy-Paris Université.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 71.
Theresa Brock. The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2024. viii + 227 pp. Notes, references, and index. $150.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1644533277; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1644533086; $32.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1644533093.
Review by Nora Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (September 2025), No. 72.
October/Octobre Reviews
Sylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, and Tyler Stovall, eds. The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 236 pp. Notes, index, and illustrations. $99.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781496228819; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781496228994; $30.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781496229984.
Review by Jean Beaman, CUNY-Graduate Center of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 73.
Henry M. Sayre, Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. ix + 255 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $49.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226809823; $48.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780226809960.
Review by Bradley Fratello, Saint Louis Community College, Meramec.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 74.
Tatiana Dunlop, The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 192 pp. Notes, references, illustrations, and index. $32.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780226827544; $31.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780226827551.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 75.
Xavier Lafrance and Stephen Miller, The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the Post-WWII Era. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367553005.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 76.
Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant, eds., A History of Economic Thought in France: Political Economy in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Routledge, 2024. vi + 278 pp. Notes, references, and index. $190.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367194468; $56.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032569345; $56.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429202414.
Review by Charlie Coleman, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 77.
Nina S. Studer, The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 264 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). IBSN 9-78-0228022206.
Review by Adam Zientek, University of California Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 78.
Bouchet, Thomas, L’aiguille et la plume, Jules Gay et Désirée Veret, 1807-1897. Paris: Anamosa, 2024. 624 pp. References, illustrations, and facsimiles. $37.81 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9782381910932.
Review by Máire Fedelma Cross, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 79.
Yan Slobodkin, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 312 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1501772368.
Review by Madeline Woker, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 80.
Linda L. Clark, Women and the Politics of Education in Third Republic France. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. viii + 312 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $88.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780197632864.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (October 2025), No. 81.
November/Novembre Review
Olivier Masclet, Thomas Amossé, Lise Bernard, Marie Cartier, Marie-Hélène Lechien, Olivier Schwartz, and Yasmine Siblot, eds., Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France: To Be Like Everyone Else. New York: Routledge, 2023. xviii + 356 pp. Notes, appendices, and index. $136.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781032360560; $41.59 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032360577; $41.59 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003330073.
Review by Frédéric Viguier, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (November 2025), No. 82.
Andrea Mansker, Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 282 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $53.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501778063; $35.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501778070.
Review by Claudie Bernard, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (November 2025), No. 83.
Blanche El Gammal, La Ruritanie ou l’Europe introuvable. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2025. 253 pp. Notes, references, and index. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2383772880.
Review by Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (November 2025), No. 84.
Françoise Thébaud, Quand nos grand-mères donnaient la vie: La maternité en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres. New edition. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2024. 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, annex, and index. €20.00 (pb). ISBN: 9-78-2729714758.
Review by Margaret Andersen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (November 2025), No. 85.
Madeleine Malthête-Méliès, Magnificent Méliès: The Authorized Biography. Translated by Kel Pero. Edited by Matthew Solomon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 402 pp. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780472132584; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780472039876.
Review by Aurore Spiers, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 25 (November 2025), No. 86.