Catherine Bertho Lavenir

The Wheel and the Pen: How We Became Tourists

Anthony Rowley, Fabrice d'Almeida

When History Captures Our Emotions

the authors recount 20 stories that made history and that reveal the role played by the emotions over the centuries

Yves Pouliquen

When the Académie Française almost Disappeared From the French Revolution to the Empire

The history of the Académie Française under the Revolution and the Empire

Emanuela Guidoboni, Jean-Paul Poirier

When the Earth Shook

François Godement

Whither China?

A fascinating inquiry into the core of Chinese political life, by an eminent expert on China.

Sylvie Schweitzer

Women Have Always Worked A History of Working Women in the 19th Century

For women, the victory of recent years is one of empowerment in their professional lives: they now have the means to compete with men in every field. Yet society’s traditional image of what is a male or female profession remains very powerful. In 2001, French women had managed to enter professions that were previously practically closed to them but French men are still reluctant to enter traditionally female professions. This book reviews two centuries of women’s work. It shows that women have always worked — but not everywhere. Women’s access to increasingly “prized” jobs goes hand in hand with economic and global development.

Anne-Marie Lugan Dardigna

Women of Literary Salon Feminism and the Literary Salon: Women in 18th-Century France

In France, the struggle for women’s rights is a very ancient one. In the 17th and 18th centuries it found expression in literary salons led by such famous figures as Madame de Tencin, Madame du Deffant, Madame Geoffrin and later by Madame du Châtelet and Madame d’Epinay.