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Julian Bourg, Boston College, From Ready-Made Solutions to New Doctrines: The French Terror and Russian Terrorism

Paul Hanson, Butler University, Jacobins and Red Guards: Reflections on Revolutionary Terror from a Comparative Perspective

Comment: K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University

H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 10
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017

Plenary Session: A Tale of Two Texts, or Why Write French History Today
Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 9
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017

Panel: Fashioning French Identities
Chair: Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University

Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, Coffee, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning in France, 1670-1780
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Julia Gossard, Utah State University, Hybrid Identities: Fashion and French Children in the Middle East and Asia, 1670-1780
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Sima Godfrey, University of British Columbia, From Jewish Rags to French Riches
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Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, Dress, Resistance and Deportation: Capturing Identity in WWII France
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Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, Anti-Semitism à la Mode: Fashion, Politics, and Identity at the Turn of the Century
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 8
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017

Session in Honor of James B. Collins I: Culture, Society, Gender, and the State in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Sara Chapman Williams, Oakland University

Karen L. Taylor, International School of Geneva, A Geography of Knowledge: Saint-Cyr’s Cahiers de Géographie
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Henriette Rahusen, Georgetown University/National Gallery of Art, Urban Elites, Ambitious Princes, and Walking Sticks: Portraiture as Propaganda in La République Monarchique
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Felicia Rosu, Leiden University, The Politics of “This and That”: Republican Practices before the Birth of the State in East Central Europe, 14th-17th Centuries
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Michael Breen, Reed College, Law, Politics, and the Social History of the Ancien Régime State
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Janine Lanza, Wayne State University, Working Women’s Lives in Early Modern France
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Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Women, Work, and the Household Economy: An Appreciation of James Collins’s Contribution and Thoughts on Future Directions
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 7
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Plenary Session: The 2017 French Presidential Elections
Chair: David A. Bell, Princeton University
Speakers:
Charlotte Cavaillé, Georgetown University
Erwan Lagadec, George Washington University
Simon Serfaty, Old Dominion University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 6
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Panel: Women in the French Imaginary: Historicizing the “Gallic Singularity”
Chair: Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, The Gallic Singularity: The Long View
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Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress
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Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester, “Outrageously Flirtatious”: Alexis de Tocqueville on Women and Democracy in America and France
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Whitney Walton, Purdue University, Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840-1908)
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 5
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Roundtable: What We Talk about When We Talk about Décolonisation
Chair: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia, Sung-Eun Choi, Bentley University, Kathryn Edwards, Tulane University, Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida
Comment: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 4
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Plenary Session: French Historians in the Public Sphere
Speakers: Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College, Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 3
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Crime, Theft, Revenge and the French Imagination
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University

Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, The Dark Avenger as Popular Hero from the Count of Monte Cristo to Chéri Bibi
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Venita Datta, Wellesley College, Crimes against the Nation: The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911)
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Dominique Kalifa, Université de Paris I, The Long Arm of Fantômas, or the Myth of the Twentieth Century
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Comment: Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 2
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017

Religious Minorities in the French Revolution: Tolerance, Violence and Emancipation
Chair: Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University

Bryan Banks, SUNY Adirondack, Subtle Protests: Rethinking the Edict of Toleration’s Reception in Calvinist France
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Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, A Violent Tolerance: Islam and the End of the Ancien Régime
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Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary, A Jewish “Architect of Victory”: Jacob Benjamin, the Armée du Midi and the Politics of
Food, 1792-93
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Comment: Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
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H-France Salon
Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 19,

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
5 November 2016

Accommodating Vichy and the Germans in Occupied France

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

Brett Bowles, Indiana University, Bloomington, A la recherche de Marcel Pagnol sous l’Occupation

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

Comment: Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology

H-France Salon
Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 18,

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
5 November 2016

Emotions and Regime Change II: Revolutionary Emotions
Chair: John W. McCormack, Aurora University

James Coons, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, The Sentimental Politics of the Princely Fronde

Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University, Memories of Fear in the Early French Revolution

Whitney Walton, Purdue University, Elite Women’s Stakes in Regime Changes During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras

Comment: Judith Miller, Emory University

H-France Salon
Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 17,

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
5 November 2016

Regime Change and Money: Uncertain Futures I

Chair: Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tabetha Ewing, Bard College, False Coinage in an Eighteenth-Century Borderland

Andrew Billing, Macalester College, Melancholic Markets: Commerce, Property, and bonheur in Diderot's Economic Writings

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

Dean Ferguson, Texas A and M University—Kingsville, Rags and Money: Chiffonniers and Consumers in the Long Eighteenth Century,

Comment: Julia Douthwaite, University of Notre Dame

H-France Salon
Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 16,

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
4 November 2016

History Beyond the Archive: Exploring the Potential of Digital Tools to Excavate Unseen Connections and Overturn Existing Scholarship
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

Jillian Slaight, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Sex and the Limits of Solidarity: Google Mapping Mobile Women in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University, Googling Eighteenth-Century News: The Affiches de Bordeaux, 1758-1865
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Comment: Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology

H-France Salon
Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 15,

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
4 November 2016

The Circulation of Goods and Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic

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

Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, Caribbean Coffee, French Culture: Circulating Knowledge Between Colony and Metropole, 1715-1789

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

Comment: Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

H-France Salon, Vol. 8 (2016), Issue 14

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
5 November 2016

Plenary Lunch: Exit, Voice, Provocation: Menace and Vulnerability in Colonial and Contemporary France
Joshua H. Cole, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

H-France Salon, Volume 8 (2016), Issue 13

Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
4 November 2016

Session 3: Conference Roundtable: Crisis in French History
John Merriman, Yale University

Lloyd Kramer, University of Norther Carolina

Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University, and Audience Discussion

H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 10, #1
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
5 March 2016
Dinner Banquet

Introduction: Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University

Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin, “Le Spectacle de la Résistante: Female Dress and Gender Transformation”
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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 9, #1-7
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
5 March 2016
Session 8J: Roundtable: Theatrical Sites in the Eighteenth Century

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, MIT, “Performing...and Spectating, Writing, and Reading”
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Audience Comments
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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 8,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
5 March 2016
Session 7L: Amazons, Murderers, Neighborhood Toughs, and Husband Beaters: Women’s Use of Violence in Early Modern France

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

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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Comment: Julius Ruff, Marquette University and Audience Comment
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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 7,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
5 March 2016
Session 5D: “L’Empire colonial dans tous ses etats”: Reshaping “la mission civilisatrice” in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Textbooks

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)”

Comment and Audience Discussion: Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University
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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 6,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
4 March 2016
Session 4: Plenary Roundtable: The Work of Roger Chartier

Introduction Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University

Lynn Hunt, UCLA, “The Precarious Cutting Edge.”

Robert Darnton, Harvard University, “Roger Chartier: Book Historian”

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Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London, “Roger Chartier sans frontières”

Response by Roger Chartier

Audience Comments

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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 5,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
4 March 2016
Session 3D: Sentiment and Statecraft: Political and Emotional Regimes in France, 1789-1848

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”

Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, “Terror and Reassurance in the Year II”

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”

Comment: Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University

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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 4,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
4 March 2016
Plenary Luncheon: “France and the World”

Introduction by J.P. Daughton

Brett Rushforth, College of William and Mary

Alice Conklin, Ohio State University

Audience Discussion

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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 3,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
4 March 2016
Session 2H: Roundtable: Consumer Cultures and Material Goods in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France

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”

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”

Sydney Watts, University of Richmond, “Provisioning for Health: Comparing Lenten Butcheries across Eighteenth-Century Urban France”

Audience Discussion

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H-France Salon, vol. 8 (2016), Issue 2,
Society for French Historical Studies
62nd Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
4 March 2016
Session 1D: Marriage: Ideals, Practices, and New Critics

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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Comment: Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
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H-France Salon, vol. 7 (2015), Issue 19

Panel Session at the Western Society for French History 43rd Conference

7 November 2015, Chicago, Illinois

Workshop: “Teaching from Objects”

Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

H-France Salon, vol. 7 (2015), Issue 18

Panel Session at the Western Society for French History 43rd Conference

6 November 2015, Chicago, Illinois

Eastern Exchanges: France in the Eighteenth-Century East

Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University

Jeunes de Langues: French Children in the Ottoman Empire

Julia M. Gossard, University of Texas, Austin

Building a Global Catholic Community in Seventeenth-Century France and Vietnam

Keith Luria, North Carolina State University

Ambassadors, Missionaries, and Converts: Picturing Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Images of Diplomatic Exchanges

Ashley Bruckbauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Comment: Steven Rowe, Chicago State University

H-France Salon, vol. 7 (2015), Issue 17

Panel Session at the Western Society for French History 43rd Conference

6 November 2015, Chicago, Illinois

Intellectual Exchanges: Gender, Identity, and Embodiment Before, During, and After the Dreyfus Affair
Chair: Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University

“Maxims to Keep in the Current Crisis”: Gender, Politics, and Pedagogy during the Dreyfus Affair

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester

A Republic of Letters for the Anti-Enlightenment: The Henry Subscription (December 1898 - January 1899)

Elizabeth Everton (Margaret Zirbel, co-author), Concordia University

Embodied Reason in French Philosophy around 1900: Emile Durkheim and the Liberal Revue de métaphysique et de morale

Eric Brandom, Kansas State University

Comment: Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California

H-France Salon, vol. 7 (2015), Issue 16

Panel Session at the Western Society for French History 43rd Conference

6 November 2015, Chicago, Illinois

“Foreign" Food in Contemporary France

Chair: Julia Landweber, Montclair State University

The Politics of the Grain: Couscous in Post-Colonial France

Ben Poole, Texas Tech University

A Vietnamese Soup in France: From Soupe Tonkinoise to Soupe Nationale

Erica J. Peters, Culinary Historians of Northern California

Why Vegetarian Food in School Cafeterias is a Problem: Food and Frenchness in the 21st Century

Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

Comment: Lauren Janes, Hope College

H-France Salon, Vol. 7, Issue 13

New Directions: French Scholarship on Early Modern France
Edited by Hilary Bernstein

Introduction
Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara

Conference Presentations at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montreal, Canada, 25 April 2014
Hugues Daussy, "Ecrire une Histoire Politique de la Reforme francaise"

Claire Chatelain, "Positions and Roles dans la Parente"

Elie Haddad, "Une histoire sociale de la noblesse française"

Audience Commentary

Anglophone Commentaries
Calm waters, James C. Collins, Georgetown University

Family, self-expression and defense of the faith, Penny Roberts, University of Warwick

Microclimates, Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Concluding Remarks, Michael P. Breen, Reed College

H-France Salon, Vol. 7, Issue 11

Teaching the World Wars in France: New Approaches and Ideas
Chair: Sarah Fishman, University of Houston

“Teaching the Cultural History of World War I”
Bruno Cabanes, Ohio State University

“Global History in a National Space: France as a Transnational Space, 1914-1918”
Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder

“The Épinal Project: Researching the Lives of American GIs Buried in Epinal Military Cemetery”
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Additional Written Comments by Mary Louise Roberts on "The Épinal Project"

Audience Discussion