H-France Salon, Vol. 12, Issue 8 (Week 1 of 4)

France and Beyond:
The Global World of the Ngāti Wīwī (The French)

The joint
66th Society for French Historical Studies Conference and
22nd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation

Week 1
5-11 July 2020

Keynote: “The Borderlands of Slavery in Medieval Mediterranean France”

Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University
Introduction by David Garrioch, Professor Emeritus of History, Monash University and Secretary of the George Rudé Society

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #1)

Panel 2: “Revolutionary Justice: Radicalization, Ambivalence, Revision”

Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine, “Adrien Colson: An Intendant to a Noble Family at the End of the Old Regime”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #2)

Julie Patricia Johnson, University of Melbourne, “The Affair Petit: Justice and Politics in Revolutionary Nevers”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #3)

Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Speaking Truth to Power in Eighteenth-Century France: A Citizen Blows the Whistle”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #4)

Rod Phillips, Carleton University, “Violent offenders before the Revolutionary courts: Dijon and Montauban, 1790-Year VI”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #5)

Panel discussion with guest Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #6)

Panel 3: “Female Beauty, the Pleasure and Pain”

Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, “Anne Boleyn, Sex Appeal, and the French Concept of ‘Grace’ ”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #7)

Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Golden Youth: L’or Potable and the Quest for Youth and Beauty in the Ancien Regime”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #8)

Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “Navigating the Pleasures of Paris after the Terror: The Merveilleuses through the Eyes of Louis-Sebastien Mercier”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #9)

Emmanuela Wroth, Durham University and The Bowes Museum, “Fleshing out the rivalry between Mlle Mars and Marie Dorval”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #10)

Linda Frey, University of Montana, and Marsha Frey, Kansas State University, “That ‘ghostly perpetuum mobile’: Diplomatic Ceremonial in the Court Society”
Paper (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #11)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #12)

Panel 4: “Style, Language and Luxury: French Cultural and Linguistic Imperialisms”

Matthew McDonald, Princeton University, “Language, de luxe: The Formation of Style in Eighteenth-Century Europe”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #13)

Arnaud Chaniac, Université de Nantes et de Montréal, “Divided Loyalties: Anglophone Quebec and Franco-Canadian Relations, 1920–1980”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #14)

Claire Rioult, Monash University and the University of Warwick, “‘Des agents de la République?’: The French consuls in Spain during the Revolutionary period 1789-1800”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #15)

Grace Allen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, “Globalising the French Art de Vivre: The Comité Colbert and the Cultivation of a Universal Taste for Luxury, 1980s-2000s”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #16)

Jean-Marc Olivier, Université Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès, “Concorde the ‘beautiful bird’ symbol of French luxury. From the technical myth to the reality of commercial disaster (1960s-2000s)”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #17)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #18)

Panel 5: “Malaise, Medicines and Doctors”

Érika Wicky, Université Lumière Lyon 2 / LARHRA, “The Smell of Paint and the Colic of Painters: The Dangers of Art (18th-19th centuries)”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #19)

David A. Guba, Jr., Bard Early College (Baltimore), “Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #20)

Katrin Schultheiss, George Washington University, “The Girl in the Lion Cage: Regulating Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century France”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #21)

Alison M. Downham Moore, Western Sydney University, “French Doctors and the Discovery of Women’s Longevity”
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #22)

Discussion among panel participants
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #23)

Panel 6: Salon on “Women, Writers, Emigration and Counter-Revolutionary Feminism“

Presented originally as a live webcast
Video (H-France Salon, Volume 12, Issue 8, #24)

Discussants:

Katherine Astbury, University of Warwick, on Charlotte Smith
Philip Mansel, Society for Court Studies, on Mme de Staël
Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol, Université Paris-Est Créteil, on Mme de Genlis
Christie Margrave, Australian National University, on Sophie Cottin
Stacie Allan, Independent Scholar, on Mme de Duras
Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on Mme Tallien
Kirsty Carpenter (Convener), Massey University, on Mme de Souza/the comtesse de Flahaut

Links to other weeks of the conference:

Week 2: 12-19 July 2020
Week 3: 20-24 July 2020
Week 4: 27-31 July 2020
Conference Main Page

Daniel SmailDan Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University. He has published widely on southern French and Italian history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is currently at work on a study of slavery in later medieval Marseille and Provence.David GarriochDavid Garrioch is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. He has published on many aspects of the history of Paris, as well as on urban social history. His most recent book is The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom, 1685-1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).Timothy TackettTimothy Tackett is emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book is The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015). He is just completing a book on 'An Ordinary Citizen in a Time of Revolution: Adrien Colson and His World, 1778 to 1797.'Julie JohnsonJulie Patricia Johnson is a researcher affiliated to the University of Melbourne. She has published recent articles on the French Revolution and criminal justice. Her book The Candle and the Guillotine: Revolution and Justice in Lyon 1789-93 has been published by Berghahn Books in June 2020.Jay M. SmithJay M. Smith is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely on eighteenth-century political culture and the history of the aristocracy. His latest book is The French Revolution. A Quick Immersion (Tibidabos Publishing, 2020).Rod PhillipsRod Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published widely on the history of wine and is currently researching aspects of wine during the French Revolution.Laura MasonLaura Mason is Sr. Lecturer in History and Film & Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has published widely on politics, culture, and media during the French Revolution. She is in the process of completing revisions on The Last Revolutionaries: The Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals, which examines the impact of the man Marx called “the first modern communist” on the end the French Revolution.Tracy AdamsTracy Adams is professor of European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland. She publishes on noble women of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.Lynn Wood MollenauerLynn Wood Mollenauer is chair and associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A cultural historian, her teaching and research interests focus on the complex interconnections between science, magic, and religion between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. The author of Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), her current book project explores the circulation of marvels and medicines in early modern Europe.Christine AdamsChristine Adams is Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She has published widely on family, gender and politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Her most recent book, co-authored with Tracy Adams, is The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame DuBarry (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). She will be a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies during the 2020-2021 academic year, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow at the Newberry Library in the spring of 2021.Emmanuela WrothEmmanuela Wroth is a Collaborative Doctoral Award candidate at Durham University and The Bowes Museum. Her dissertation research focuses on nineteenth-century female actors on the popular Parisian stage. She is currently co-authoring a chapter on 'New Approaches to Female Actors and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century France' for the forthcoming CUP A New History of French TheatresLinda Frey and Marsha FreyLinda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey are graduates of the Ohio State University and currently professors at the University of Montana and Kansas State University. They specialize in eighteenth-century international relations and international law. They have in tandem co-written, co-edited and co-annotated numerous books and articles including The History of Diplomatic Immunity, The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession and 'Proven Patriots': the French Diplomatic Corps, 1789-1799. The duo are currently completing a monograph on the culture of French Revolutionary diplomacy and yet another on the French Revolutionary challenge to international law.Matthew McDonaldMatthew McDonald is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation research is on the preponderance of French as Europe’s major international language from the mid-eighteenth century through the Napoleonic Wars.Arnaud ChaniacArnaud Chaniac is a joint Ph.D. candidate at the Université de Nantes and at the Université de Montréal. His dissertation focuses on the relations tied between Quebec anglophones and France during the twentieth century.Claire RioultClaire Rioult is agrégée d’histoire and a doctoral candidate at Monash University and the University of Warwick. Her dissertation focuses on the role played by diplomatic and consular agents in the commercial competition waged by Britain and France on the Spanish market between 1783 and 1808.Grace AllenGrace Allen is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her current research focuses on the globalization if the French luxury industry after World War II.Jean-Marc OlivierJean-Marc Olivier is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. For the past twelve years, he has concentrated his research on the history of aeronautics and the conquest of space. He has published several books on these subjects (for example: 1969. First Flight of the Concorde, Toulouse, Éditions Midi-Pyrénéennes, 2018). His latest book, co-directed with Rémy Pech, is Histoire de Toulouse et de la metropole (Privat, 2019).Érika WickyÉrika Wicky is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the LARHRA in Lyon. She has published widely on the history of the senses. Her latest book is Les paradoxes du détail : Voir, savoir, représenter à l’ère de la photographie (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015)David A. Guba, Jr.David A. Guba, Jr. is Assistant Professor of History at Bard Early College (Baltimore). He has published widely on the colonial history of cannabis in France. His first book is Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).Katrin SchultheissKatrin Schultheiss is an associate professor of History at The George Washington University. She has published on the history of medicine and gender. Her current book project is entitled 'Edge of Reason: Mind, Brain,and Body in the Age of Charcot.'Alison M. Downham MooreAlison M. Downham Moore is Associate Professor of modern European history at Western Sydney University. She has published widely on the history of French and German medicine, psychiatry, gender and sexuality. Her latest book is Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2015).Katherine AstburyKatherine Astbury is Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on French literature and theatre of the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth centuries. Her most recent monograph is Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution (Legenda, 2012).Philip ManselPhilip Mansel is an independent historian and co-founder of the Society for Court Studies and the Levantine Heritage Foundation. He has published widely on the later French monarchy, including biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne, a study of the Court of France in 1789-1830 and a history of Paris between Empires, 1814-1852. His latest book is King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (Penguin 2019). Six of his books have been translated in French.Marie-Emmanuelle PlagnolMarie-Emmanuelle is Professor of French Literature and Director of the Doctoral Research School at the UPE specialised in the theatre of the eighteenth century (Voltaire, Rousseau and Destouches) and educative literature (Genlis). She has published numerous books, chapters and articles on the role of literature, on theatres official and private and the inclusion and representation of women, and motherhood.Christie MargraveChristie Margrave is a Lecturer in French Studes in the College Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her area of research expertise is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature, particularly women’s writing and literature from the French colonies. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews in 2015 during which she spent two years in Paris, working as a lectrice at the Université de Paris IV - La Sorbonne. Her first book, Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women’s Fiction, 1789-1815, appeared with Legenda in 2019.Stacie AllanStacie Allan is an independent scholar who has published on early nineteenth-century Francophone women’s writing. Her research centers on the impact of intercultural encounters on individual subjectivity and literary production. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bristol in 2017 and has previously taught on French courses at the universities of Bristol and Westminster. Her first book Writing the Self, Writing the Nation was published by Peter Lang in 2019.Christine AdamsChristine Adams is Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She has published widely on family, gender and politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Her most recent book, co-authored with Tracy Adams, is The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame DuBarry (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). She will be a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies during the 2020-2021 academic year, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow at the Newberry Library in the spring of 2021.Kirsty CarpenterKirsty Carpenter is Associate Professor of History at Massey University. She works on emigration during the French Revolution and published The Novels of Madame de Souza in Social and Political Perspective (Peter Lang, 2007) and a Scholarly Edition, Eugénie et Mathilde by Madame de Souza, MHRA Critical Texts Volume 26 (MHRA, 2014).