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    News from november 27

    - William Stanley Jevons. An Economic Science in Transformation
    - Collective Volume, The Belle Époque of Criticism. Literary Criticism from Barrès to Gide and Valéry
    - Collective Volume, Rereading Claire de Duras
    - Remy de Gourmont, The Velvet Path. New Dissociations of Ideas
    - Alain P. Michel, Pierre Bézier. The Quiet Worldwide Renown of an Engineer
    - Anne Lancien, The Ligue de l’enseignement from 1958 to the Present Day. Transformations of a Popular Education Institution
    - Collective Volume, France and Greece in the 19th Century. Crossed Perspectives
    - Revue des études italiennes, 2025 – 1, No. 5. Theory of Culture and Literary Criticism in Gramsci
    - Éthique, politique, religions, 2025 – 2, No. 27. Civic Friendship – From Athens to Rome
    - LiCArC. Contemporary Arabic Literature and Culture, 2025, No. 13. History of the Emergence and Evolution of Arabic Performing Arts

    News from november 22

    - What future for technical diplomas?
    - Xavier Storelli, A Reading of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: The Tree Structure of the Circle
    - Manon Courbin, The Aesthetics of Uncertainty in the Novel-Memoirs of the 1730s
    - John Keats, Complete Sonnets followed by La Belle Dame sans Merci and the Odes
    - Aurélie Leclercq, Questioning the Event: Baudelaire, Pessoa, Pasolini, Untimely Poets
    - Florence Schnebelen, The Real and the Absolute: Romanticism and Experience from Goethe to Byron
    - Francesca Scrofani, Inquiry into a Dialogue from Plato’s Corpus: Minos, or On the Law
    - Jean de Sponde, Complete Poems
    - Alonso de Contreras, The Story of My Life
    - Victor Cousin, Moral Philosophy (1820)
    - Review of the History of Economic Thought, 2025–2, No. 20. Miscellany
    - Cahiers Lautréamont, 2025, No. 7. Miscellany

    News from november 13

    - Victor Hugo: Between Good and Evil, a Conscience in Storm
    - Voltaire, Complete Theatre. Volumes I and II. The Shadow of Shakespeare
    - Marc Courtieu, The Man Without Character. The Story of Eugène Charpin, Saint-Simonian (1812–189?)
    - Nestor Capdevila, Tolstoy’s Conceptual Battles: A Practice of Philosophy
    - Marie-Églantine Lescasse, Linguistic Ideology and Imagination in Spain (1492–1625)
    - Journal of Medieval Studies and Romance Philology, 2025 – 2, No. 4. Tributes to Gérard Gouiran (1945–2025)
    - Staëlian Notebooks, Germaine de Staël and the Coppet Group, No. 75, 2025. Rereading On Literature
    - Tristan L’Hermite Notebooks, No. XLVII, 2025. Crossed Perspectives on Tristan and Corneille

    News from november 6

    - Imaginary Composers in Literature. Lecture with Arthur Morisseau
    - Loan Berens, Translation and Colonization in Peru: Juan de Betanzos, the First Expert on the Inca World
    - Bastien Cabot, The Securing of Mines in the 19th Century: Knowledge, Power, and Counterpowers
    - Yossi Maurey, Music, Relics, and Sacred Kingship: The Liturgy of the Sainte-Chapelle
    - Collective Volume, Blaise Cendrars: Laughter in Shards
    - Collective Volume, Figures of Sleep in Cinema
    - Cahiers Jean Giraudoux 2025, No. 53: Combat with the Angel
    - Revue Bossuet. Literature, Culture, Religion, 2025, No. 16: Spirituality and Reflexivity: Writing for Oneself in the 17th Century
    - La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 11, No. 18: Hélène Gaudy: Place, Image, and Trace

    News from october 30

    - ENS Entrance Exam. Ulm/Lyon 2026 / Additional Readings
    - Alain J. Lemaître, The Shadow of the Martyr: Jews in the Kingdom of France in the 18th Century
    - Jocelyn Godiveau, Modernity and Anti-Modernity of Decadence: From Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley
    - Collective volume, L.-F. Céline on the Road
    - Cixila of Toledo, The Life and Deeds of Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
    - Collective volume, The Oulipo: Generations
    - The New Castoriadis Notebooks, 2025, No. 2 — Castoriadis, Thinker of Creation
    - Ædificare: International Journal for the History of Construction, 2025 – 1, No. 17 — Miscellany
    - Applied Economics 2024 – 1, No. 7 — Miscellany

    News from october 23

    - The Forgotten History of French Acadia
    - Marcel Proust, The Mysterious Correspondent and Other Unpublished Stories 
    - Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel 
    - Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Moral Tales and New Moral Tales 
    - Donatella Bisconti, Thinking Change in Politics: Between Rome and Florence (1453–1478)
    - Antoine Gheerbrant and Jean-Noël Laurenti, The Declamation of Prose in Molière’s Theatre: Research on Forgotten Practices
    - Collective, A Critical Look at Sovereignties: A Global Perspective from the Middle Ages to the Present
    - Nicolas Doutey, An Idea of Stage: With Beckett’s Theatrical Writing
    - Oriane Chevalier, Judith Gautier’s Total Theatre: Dream of the Far East
    - Études sartriennes 2025, No. 29 — The Reception of Nausea
    - Constellation Cendrars 2025, No. 9 — Miscellany
    - Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures, 2025–2, No. 4 — Semiotic Anthropology: Cassirer and Beyond / Anthropological Semiotics: Cassirer and Beyond

    News from october 16

    - The Must-Sees of Summer
    - Feminine Cultures of the Grand Siècle
    - Juliette Lormier, Poetics of Duration: New Rhythmic Perspectives on French Verse
    - Camille Néron, Virginia Woolf and Anne Hébert: Ideal and Novelistic Renewal
    - Yoann Malinge, Action in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre: Freedom in Situation
    - Couturière 2025 – 2, No. 2: Iranian Artistic Presences – Creation and Resistance
    - Food Systems, 2025, No. 10: Miscellaneous

    News from october 9

    - The Book of the Ladder of Muhammad
    - Kevin Petroni, Corsica, Conservatory of Modernity
    - Federico Barbierato, Evangelists and Newsmen
    - Marie Perrin-Daubard, Barbarism and Creation in Victor Hugo
    - Collective volume, The Discourse on the Plague
    - Louis Grodecki, Selected Reviews (1950–1980)
    - Bibliography of French Literature 2025, Year 2024. Miscellany
    - The Modern Letters Review 2025 – 10. Colette: The Power and Beauties of Brevity

    News from october 2

    - Reason of State Rewarded
    - Myriam Bernier, Ninon de Lenclos. A Morality of Desire
    - Aristotle, Parts of Animals (Περὶ ζῴων μορίων)
    - Tony Visinet, A Month in the United States and Canada in 1886. Crossing the Atlantic on the New Fast Liners of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
    - The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Reformism in the Belle Époque
    - Balzac and the Disciplines of Knowledge. Sciences and Representation
    - Numismatic Review, 2025, no. 182. Varia
    - Louis Dumur Notebooks 2025, no. 12. Aspects of Literary Criticism
    - Review of History and Religious Philosophy, 105th year, no. 3. Varia

    News from september 25

    - Event: Laélia Véron presents her book Le Mot fatal at the bookstore Les Temps modernes in Orléans
    - Michel Hébert, Supplicating the Prince (1382–1460). The Provençal Communities and the Angevin State
    -Dominique Faria, Paper Islands. A Literary Approach to Islands in French Fiction, 2000–2024
    - Melchior de Polignac, Anti-Lucretius. Physics and Morality
    - Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey, Correspondence and Other Documents
    - The Directors of the Companies and the King’s Ministers in the Early Modern Period. A Complex and Ambiguous Relationship
    - Écrans 2025 – 1, no. 23. From the Frame to the Border. Visual Arts, Cinema, Music

    News from september 18

    - Fifty years ago, Saint-John Perse passed away
    - Louise Dupin, Women 
    - Jehan Rictus, The Soliloquies of the Poor 
    - Cervantes, Barbary Theater 
    - Jules Siegfried, Travel Journal. In England, the West Indies, Spain, India, Italy, etc. (1860–1865)
    - The Republicanism of Algernon Sidney
    - Roger Martin du Gard and Stefan Zweig, Correspondence (1931–1941)
    - Manon Gac, Artus Désiré: A Pamphleteer Against the Reformation
    - Albert Rigaudière, Identity, Tradition, Innovation in the Cities of the Massif Central (13th–15th Century)
    - Octave Mirbeau Notebooks 2024, No. 31. Miscellany
    - Pegasus – For an Experimental and Applied Laboratory of Literary Theory, No. 2. Textual Forms

    News from september 11

    - Bandits, Smuggling, and Legends in the Age of Enlightenment
    - Charles Nodier: Episodes and Memories from His Life
    - Faust, Part One: A Philosophical Translation
    - On the Edge of Silence: In the Interiority of the Novels (Claude Simon, Jean-Paul Goux)
    - Melodramas, Vol. V, 1819–1822
    - Putting into Prose, Whatever the Cost! Short Narratives and “Other” Genres from the 13th to the 16th Century
    - Review of French Literary History, 125th Year, No. 3: Miscellany
    - From Words to Deeds, No. 14: New Didactic Approaches to Specialized Translation and Interpreting

    News from september 4

    - Eloquence at the Heart of the Revolution
    - Music and Animals in Ancient Thought
    - The Imitation of Others and the Invention of the Self. The Concept of Ingenium in Spinoza
    - Economics of Professional Sport
    - Alexandre Dumas. General Correspondence. Volume X
    - Louis XI on Stage (1827–1859). Historical Comedy, Tragedy, and Drama
    - La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 9. “The Smallest France.” Irregular Visions of Defeated France (1940–1944)
    - Libertinism and Philosophy in the Classical Age (16th–18th Century) 2025, No. 22 Spanish Libertines / Libertinos españoles

    News from august 28

    - Émile Sénart Prize 2025
    - Complete Correspondence of Sophie Cottin – Volume IV
    - Pascal Quignard the Anarchist
    - The Fatal Word – Language, Power, and Wit in Balzac’s The Human Comedy
    - Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Variations on the Savage
    - Japan in the Writings of the Jesuits (16th–18th Century)
    - Bulletin of the International Society of Friends of Montaigne – No. 81
    - Cahiers Mérimée – No. 17

    News from august 21

    - 50 Years Ago: The Death of Andersen
    - Beatmaking in Dakar. Music, Knowledge, Technology
    - Utopia and Criticism
    - Fanny Tercy, Complete Works. Volumes I and II — 1816-1823
    - The Power of the Physician in the 19th Century
    - The Art of Theater. Volume II by Pierre Jouvet 
    - La Rochefoucauld, Memoirs. Volumes I and II
    - Dictionary of Slang and Popular Expressions
    - European Drama and Performance Studies, No. 25. Child Performers (17th-19th Century)
    - CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, No. 8. Imagining Inclusive Communities in European Culte

    News from august 14

    - Offenbach in all its forms
    - China and French Theater since 1978
    - Handel & His Heroines. An Imagination of Women's Power
    - European Avant-gardes and the Status of the Work of Art (1895-1917). "An Inexorable War on Doctrine"
    - Homo Corporatus. Corporate Dynamics, the Officer World, and the Hybrid State in the 18th Century
    - Thinking Childbirth in Philosophy (2021-2024). Writings and Conferences
    - Revue d'études proustiennes – 2, no. 22. The Novel(s) of Albertine. One Hundred Years After Albertine Disappeared
    - La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 8. Facing the Tree

    News from august 7

    - Desire and Beatitude according to Spinoza
    - Discourse on the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" in the 20th Century. Identities, Memories, and History
    - Philosophy of Matter and Materialist Philosophical Concepts
    - Literatures of the Partition of India (1947-2013). Paradoxical Testimonies
    - The Theater of Alphonse Daudet. Forgotten Successes
    - Theater and Ethics in Europe during the Ancien Régime
    - Bulletin of the Paul Claudel Society, No. 246. Taking up the Pen for Claudel. Commemoration of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Death
    - Analecta Bruxellensia, No. 25. Regimes of Truth and Religious Experience

    News from july 31

    - Dante's Vita nuova honored by the Académie française
    - The King is Dead II. Imaginary Royalties (1836–1893)
    - (Re)reading Correspondences. Tributes to Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac
    - Whitehead’s Natural Philosophy: Mathematics, Empiricism, and Relativity
    - Dumas fils. Complete Plays. Volume V
    - Exemplarity in Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches
    - Cahiers Tristan Corbière, 2023, no. 6. The Poet in Representations
    - Enterprise & Society, 2024 – 2, no. 16

    News from july 24

    - Frantz Fanon, One Hundred Years of Thought in Motion
    - The Crimean War, the First Contemporary War
    - "Old Manuscript." First Known Version of A Life
    - The Dialectical Invention
    - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. An Untimely Man in His Century
    - Transformacions. Volume I. A Medieval Catalan Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
    - Proust, From Schoolboy to Writer. Early Works (1884-1895)
    - Louis Jouvet, The Art of Theater Volume I. The Actor's Profession
    - Man-Machine
    - Ethics, Politics, Religions, No. 26. The Republic of the Moderns
    - Bertrand Review, No. 8. Varia

    News from july 18

    - Romain Rolland, Complete Works, Volume 9. Music Criticism and Other Texts on Music
    - The Jewish Scholar and Music. Musical Science According to Medieval Hebrew Texts
    - The Emotions of Boys in Children's Novels. Astrid Lindgren, Reif Larsen, Jean-Claude Mourlevat
    - Vico on the Visual Arts
    - Being, Coming from Elsewhere, and Writing in French
    - Revue Balzac, 2025, No. 8. Ecologies / Ecologies
    - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 2025 – 1, No. 49. varia

    News from july 10

    - Greek Studies Association Prize 2025
    - The Legal Control of Printed Matter
    - Traces and Uses of Malebranchism in the French Enlightenment Novel (1712-1797)
    - Autopsy of an Inquisition in Provence (1530-1533)
    - Historical Poetics of "Modernity"
    - Charles Baudelaire "To Brighten the Boredom of Our Prisons"
    - Digital Studies, 2023 – 2, No. 16. Sensing Digital Matter. An Aesthetic Contribution of Video Games
    - Alkemie. Biannual Review of Literature and Philosophy, 2025 – 1, No. 35. The Intimate

    News from july 3

    - 2026 Aggregations – Further Reading
    - Normandy between Proust and Monet. Site, Landscape, Place of Memory
    - Dialogue with Nature
    - "To recognize is a God." Anagnorisis in Western Literature
    - The Franco-Italian Creation of a Political Figure (1848-1880)
    - La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 7. Julien Gracq, a singular figure of the writer as intellectual
    - Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 105th year, no. 2

    News from june 26

    - Duplomb Law: Are Lobbying Campaigns Antidemocratic?
    - Chronicle of the Regency and the Reign of Louis XV. Volume V. 1751-1754
    - Mendicant Friars in French. Literary Criticism and Stereotyping from the 13th to the 16th Century
    - The Sounds of Narratives under the Ancien Régime
    - Artist and Citizen. Works in Verse and Other Texts
    - The Game and Mystery of Monsieur Saint Julien (1529). And Other Works
    - Socio-Economics of Labor, No. 15
    - Encomia, No. 46
    - History of the Council of Trent. Original Edition of 1619

    News from june 19

    - What is French? Myths and Realities
    - Remarks on the French Language
    - André Gide and Poetry. Poe(li)tic Visions
    - Issues of Violence in Long 17th-Century Novels
    - Tragedies of Decolonization. Francophone African, Caribbean, and Malagasy Theater (1942-1992)
    - In Pocket: My Prisons, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, The Betrothed
    - Interview and Book Signing with Salima Tenfiche
    - Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2025 – 1, No. 19
    - Couturière, 2025 – 1, No. 1. The Extreme Next

    News from June 13

    - Desires and Their Place in Our Society
    - Renewal of Algerian Cinema
    - The Economic Constitution
    - The Television Moment in Cinema and Literature
    - Alterimages: Coats of Arms and Madonnelle of the Roman Baroque
    - Describing a Language: Objectives and Methods
    - La Lettre clandestine, 2025, No. 33: The Encyclopédie, the Encyclopedists, and Clandestine Philosophical Literature
    - La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 6: Barbey and His Postures

    News from June 5

    – Jean de Sismondi – A Sentimental Liberal
    – The Wisdom of Aristotle
    – The Company as a Political Actor – Labor, Convention, and Governance
    – Industry in the Lodévois – Workshops, Markets, and People (15th Century)
    – Philosophy and Media – A Semiodiscursive Approach to the Contemporary French Press
    – Ventriloquized Figures – Women’s Voices (16th–18th Century)
    – The 19th Century in Its Languages – Essays in Honor of Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand
    – Cahiers de Lexicologie, 2025 – 1, No. 126 – Science Through Words, or How to Form a Scientific Terminology in the Middle Ages
    – Neologica, 2025, No. 19 – Neology and Activism

    News from May 29

    – Evangelicals and Power – A Historian’s Perspective
    – Portrait of the Polemicist as an Artist – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and Léon Bloy (1848–1917)
    – Gide and Chopin – From Gide’s Musical Aesthetics to the Reception of Chopin in France
    – The Infinite Work of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    – Stilts for Semantics – A Contribution to the Epistemology of the Discipline
    – Selected Plays
    – Romanesques, No. 17 – Aspects of the Polyphonic Novel
    – Nicolas Rapin (1539–1608) – A Poitevin Poet, Humanist, and Soldier during the Wars of Religion. Volumes I–II
    – The Images or Paintings of Flat-Painting – Translation and Commentary by Blaise de Vigenère (1578). Volumes I–II

    News from May 22

    – Bicentennial of Saint-Simon’s Death – The Invention of Modern Organization
    – Judicial Pleas and State Practices (Europe, 16th–19th Century)
    – Epistemocriticism in Film – Coppola, Tarr, Verhoeven, and Others
    – Before the Storm – The Ideas of the Day (June 1911–August 1914)
    – "City Air Makes You Free" – Essays in Honor of Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
    – Achilles and Patroclus – A Myth of the Male Couple
    – Memoirs of a Cross Thief (Pocket Edition)
    – Theater by Women of the Ancien Régime, Volume IV (Pocket Edition)
    – La Henriade – Followed by Essay on the Civil Wars of France and Essay on Epic Poetry (Pocket Edition)
    – Valery Larbaud Notebooks, No. 61 – Édouard Dujardin – Valery Larbaud: Correspondence I, 1922–1929
    – Notebooks of the International Association of French Studies – 2025, No. 77

    News from May 15

    – Lecture by Jean-Marie Roulin
    – Alexandre Kojève and the Law
    – The Inclusion of Religious Fact in Personal Writings
    – Becoming Jocasta – Births and Rebirths of the Character from Antiquity to the Present
    – Materialist Histories of Materialism – Genealogy and Uses of a Category
    – German Views of the Scandinavian North in the 18th Century
    – European Journal of Service Economics and Management, No. 19
    – Journal of Literary History of France, 125th Year, No. 2
    – The Journal of Modern Letters, 2025–5 – Flaubert and Eros
    – The Researches of France – Volumes I–III

    News from May 8

    – Anarchist Jurists
    – The Market for Law – Social Law and Capitalism in Otto von Gierke
    – Agricultural Policies – Theories, Histories, Reforms, Experiences
    – Waging War in the 17th Century – Crossed Perspectives on Austro-Ottoman Wars
    – Children of Hermes – Travel, Otherness, and Reception of Antiquity
    – Practices and Theories of Reading French Theater in the 16th and 17th Centuries – A Critical Anthology
    – Season, the Series Journal, No. 9
    – Ædificare, No. 16 – International Journal of Construction History
    – Journal of Italian Studies, No. 4 – Women in Italian Literature Today

    News from May 2

    – Martine Kahane – Winner of the France Musique Jury Prize
    – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Complete Works, Volume XIII A
    – Games and Their Rules in France and England (16th–18th Century)
    – Dostoevsky, Proust, and Gide – Narrative Manipulation and Ambiguity
    – André Pieyre de Mandiargues – Or the Writing of Disquiet
    – Literature and Ethology
    – Cultural Semiotics Notebooks, No. 3 – Ecology of Meaning, Meaning of Ecology

    2025

    Award from the Société des Amis d'Agrippa d'Aubigné 2025

    Théâtre complet by Jean de La Taille et Jacques de La Taille

    Edited and directed by François Lecercle

    Médaille Jean Reynaud of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2025

    Généalogie de la raison d’État

    Julien Le Mauff

    Émile Sénart Award from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2025

    Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud

    Editors: Castaing (Anne), Dejenne (Nicolas), Le Blanc (Claudine)

    Prix de l'Académie française Mabillon 2025

    Œuvres complètes. Tome II Vita nuova / La Vie neuve

    Edited and translated by Bruno Pinchard 

    Prix du Jury du Livre France Musique-Claude Samuel 2025

    Enquête sur Le Fantôme de l’Opéra de Gaston Leroux

    Martine Kahane

    Award 2025 of the Bertrand Russell Society

    Russell global - Pour une histoire des réceptions de la philosophie analytique

    Sébastien Gandon

    Zographos Award, Association for Greek studies 2025

    Viatique du voyageur d’Ibn al-Ǧazzār. Histoire du texte grec, de la Sicile à Constantinople

    Thibault Miguet

    Reinach Award, Association for Greek studies 2025

    Les Savoirs de l’invisible. De la météorologie ancienne à la philosophie platonicienne

    Lora Mariat

    17th century Prize of the Société d'Étude du XVIIe siècle 2024

    La Période oratoire (1550-1750)

    Sophie Hache 

    2024

    Prize Giuseppe Sormani, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci of Torino, 2024

    Religion et hérésies dans la pensée d’Antonio Gramsci

    Marie Lucas

    Prize Jean Carbonnier, Institut des Études et de la Recherche sur le Droit et la Justice, 2024

    La Constitution économique. Enquête sur les rapports entre économie, politique et droit. To be published

    Guillaume Grégoire

    Prize Germaine de Staël 2024

    "Saincte et precieuse deformité". Expérimentations littéraires de la laideur à la Renaissance

    Sofina Dembruk

    Prize Diane Potier-Boès, Académie française, 2024

    Sīdī Molière. Traduire et adapter Molière en arabe (Liban, Égypte, Tunisie, 1847-1967)

    Ons Trabelsi

    Académie d’Aix Award, 2024

    Extirper l'hérésie de Provence

    Gabriel Audisio

    Second Award Jeanbernat Barthélemy de Ferrari Doria, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 2024

    Figures de la marginalité dans la pensée grecque

    Maxime Chapuis

    Budget Award, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 2024

    Esculape et les naïades

    Joël Coste

    2023

    XVIIth century Award, Société d’Étude du XVIIe siècle, 2023

    Politique du héros chrétien

    Lucien Wagner

    Robert de Montesquiou Award

    Proust et les amateurs

    Teppei Asama

    Littérature et Art nouveau : de Mallarmé à Proust

    Cyril Barde

    Académie française Henri Mondor Award

    Stéphane Mallarmé, l’homme poursuit noir sur blanc

    Federica Locatelli

    Special mention, Prize AFSE for the best books in Economics

    Catholiques et Économistes. Leurs controverses depuis la Révolution

    François Etner

    Rengo Sundai-Kai Academic Encouragement Award

    Proust et les amateurs

    Teppei Asama

    Grand Prix in Linguistics, Royal Academy of language and French literature, Belgium

    Aspect et formes verbales en français

    Laurent Gosselin

    2022

    Reinach Award, Association for Greek studies

    Chasse à l’homme et faux-semblants dans Le Sophiste de Platon

    Létitia Mouze

    Diane Potier-Boès Award, Académie française

    L’Expérience du Levant à l’automne de la Renaissance. Le « Voyage de Constantinople »

    Étienne Jouhaud

    Monseigneur Marcel Award, Académie française 

    La Sphère privée à la Renaissance. « Les cachettes du cœur »

    Bénédicte Boudou

    Grand Prix du Livre France Musique-Claude Samuel

    Donizetti et la France (1831-1897). Carrière, créations, réception

    Stella Rollet

    2021

    Association des Amis de Robert de Montesquiou Award, 2021

    Robert de Montesquiou

    Antoine Bertrand

    XXIst Century Italiques Award, 2021

    À l’ombre de Vautrin. Proust et Balzac

    Mariolina Bongiovanni-Bertini

    Best Essay Awrad, La Cause Littéraire, 2021

    La pensée de la décadence de Baudelaire à Nietzsche

    Andrea Schellino

    Madeleine Laurain-Portemer Award, Académie des sciences morales et politiques, 2021

    L’Empire de Venise et les Turcs XVIe-XVIIe siècle

    Géraud Poumarède

    Arts Award, Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, 2021

    Femmes artistes à l’âge classique. Arts du dessin – peinture, sculpture, gravure

    Elise Pavy-Guilbert, Stéphane Pujol et Patrick Wald Lasowski

    Essay Award, Corsican Book, 2021

    L’Adieu aux aspirations nationales. Crise des formes de vie dans la littérature corsophone

    Kevin Petroni

    Award of Académie de marine, 2021

    Mers intérieures Chateaubriand, la mer et les Mémoires d’outre-tombe

    Arlette Girault-Fruet

    Award Monseigneur Marcel, Académie française, 2021

    Anatomie de la colère. Une passion à la Renaissance

    Bruno Méniel

    La Peste à la Renaissance. L’imaginaire d’un fléau dans la littérature au XVIe siècle

    Brenton Hobart

    La Bruyère Award, Académie française, 2021

    Casanova. Le moraliste et ses masques

    Séverine Denieul

    Saintour Award, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2021

    Chasse à l’homme et faux semblants dans Le Sophiste de Platon

    Létitia Mouze

    Bordin Award, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2021

    L’Empire de Venise et les Turcs XVIe-XVIIe siècle

    Géraud Poumarède

    2020

    Édouard Bonnefous Foundation Award, Institut de France, 2020

    Marcel Proust et la politique. Une conscience française

    Gérard Desanges

    Monseigneur Marcel Award, Académie française, 2020

    Lemaire de Belges, Homère belgeois. Le mythe troyen à la Renaissance

    Adeline Desbois-Ientile

    Robert Delavignette Award, Académie des sciences d’outre-mer, 2020

    La Littérature antillaise entre histoire et mémoire. 1935-1995

    Albert James Arnold

    Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui Award, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, 2020

    Le Capitalisme et ses rythmes, quatre siècles en perspective. Tome II - Splendeurs et misère de la croissance

    Pierre Dockès

    Author admitted to compete for the Best young economist Award, 2020

    La Théorie de la firme comme entité fondée sur le pouvoir (TFEP)

    Virgile Chassagnon

    Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, 2020

    « Maribas et la sorcellerie masculine », written by Valentina Gosetti and E. J. Kent in the journal Revue Bertrand, 2019, n° 2

    2019

    Orsay Museum Award, 2019

    À la conquête du marché de l’art. Le Pari(s) des enchères (1830-1939)

    Léa Saint-Raymond

    La Renaissance française Award, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 2019

    La Littérature vietnamienne francophone (1913-1986)

    Giang-Huong Nguyen

    Luc Durand-Réville Award, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 2019

    Rhétorique nègre au XVIIIe siècle. Des récits de voyage à la littérature abolitionniste

    David Diop

    Award for a thesis from the Commission de la recherche de l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016

    Le Temps de l’admiration ou la première des passions à l'âge classique

    Thibault Barrier

    Fondation Perelman Award, 2019

    Rhétorique et Éthique. Du jugement de valeur

    Roselyne Koren

    Monseigneur Marcel Award, Académie française, 2019

    Penser les mathématiques au XVIe siècle

    Shin Higashi

    Prix de la francophonie, Cercle littéraire et artistique Catherine-de-Médicis (Auvergne - Bourbonnais - Velay) and Cercle littéraire et artistique Madame-de-Sévigné (Dauphiné - Lyonnais - Savoie), 2019

    Une vie à la trace. Amable Bourzeis, écrivain (1606-1672)

    Yasushi Noro

    2018

    Éric de Putter Award, 2018

    Foi et franchise Le témoignage. de l’Église primitive à la lumière de Philodème de Gadara

    Hélène Wiener

    Kurt-Ringger-Stiftung Award, Académie des sciences et des lettres de Mayence, 2018

    Penser la couleur en littérature. Explorations romanesques des Lumières au réalisme

    Élodie Ripoll

    Edouard-Saman Award, Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille, 2018

    Éphémérides romaines. 24 mars – 24 octobre 1775

    Édition de Gilles Montègre

    Marin Award, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (ex-aequo), 2018

    L’Anatomie de la noirceur. Science et esclavage à l’âge des Lumières

    Andrew S. Curran

    Madame Victor Noury born Catherine-Victoire Langlois Foundation Award, 2018

    Casanova dans l’Europe des aventuriers

    Guillaume Simiand

    Giacometti et les écrivains. L’atelier sans fin

    Thomas Augais

    Book of Economics Award, Association française de science économique, 2018

    Le Capitalisme et ses rythmes, quatre siècles en perspective. Tome I Sous le regard des géants

    Pierre Dockès

    2017

    Brives-Cazes Award, Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, 2017

    Éphémérides romaines. 24 mars – 24 octobre 1775

    Édition de Gilles Montègre

    Marcel Boiteux Award, Best book of Economics and Energy, Association des économistes de l'énergie, 2017

    Les Économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (1865-1931)

    Antoine Missemer

    Prix du jury, Cercle littéraire proustien de Cabourg-Balbec - Madeleine d'or, 2017

    Dictionnaire Proust-Ruskin

    Jérôme Bastianelli

    Monseigneur Marcel Award, Académie française, 2017

    Le Soleil caché - Rhétorique sacrée et optique au XVIIe siècle en France

    Florent Libral

    Cassiopée Award, Cénacle européen francophone, 2017

    Revue européenne de recherches sur la poésie. 2016, n° 2

    Giovanni Dotoli (direction)

    Prize Émile Le Senne – Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 2017

    Jean Favier Award, Société des amis des archives de France, 2016

    Prix de l'université du Conseil départemental du Val-de-Marne, 2015

    Dans l’ombre de la capitale - Les petites villes sur l’eau et Paris au XVe siècle

    Pierre-Henri Guittonneau

    2016

    La Renaissance française Award, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 2016

    À l'ombre de la langue légitime - L'Acadie dans la francophonie

    Annette Boudreau

    Award from the Association for Greek studies, 2016

    L'Hadès céleste - Histoire du purgatoire dans l'Antiquité

    Adrian Mihai

    2015

    Jacques-HandschinAward, Société suisse de musicologie, 2015

    Saisir le mouvement - Écrire et lire les sources de la belle danse (1700-1797)

    Dóra Kiss

    Special Award, Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, 2015

    Moudre les blés - Les moulins de l'Entre-deux-Mers bordelais (XIe-XVIIIe siècle)

    Vincent Joineau

    Giacomo-Treves Award, Italy, 2015

    Libres et persécutés. Francs-maçons et laïques italiens en exil pendant le fascisme

    Nicoletta Casano

    Aguirre-Basualdo Award / André Labrouquère, Chancellerie des universités de Paris, 2015

    Les Métaphores naturelles dans le débat sur la Révolution

    Olivier Ritz

    Georges-Dumézil Award, Académie française, 2015

    Rabelais altérateur - « Græciser en François »

    Romain Ménini

    Diane Potier-Boès Award, Académie française , 2015

    De l'Égypte à la fiction - Récits arabes et européens du XXe siècle

    Ève de Dampierre-Noiray

    Association canadienne des études francophones du XIXe siècle Award, 2015

    Émile Zola et les aveux du corps - Les savoirs du roman naturaliste

    Sophie Ménard

    Prix des Muses, Foundation Singer-Polignac – Essay Award, 2015

    Avatars d'opéras - Parodies et circulation des airs chantés sur les scènes parisiennes (1672-1745)

    Judith le Blanc

    2014

    Chancellerie des Universités de Paris Award and Thesis Prize of Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, 2014

    Intervention et libération d’Edmund Burke à John Stuart Mill

    Aurélie Knüfer

    Grand prix de la Mer, 2014

    La Non Trubada - La question des îles errantes dans les navigations d'autrefois

    Arlette Girault-Fruet

    2013

    Young Searcher Award, Académie Montesquieu, 2013

    Entre les larmes et l'effroi - La tragédie classique française, 1677-1726

    Nicholas Dion

    Prix de la Société d'étude du XVIIe siècle, 2013

    Entre philologie et linguistique, approches de la langue classique

    Isabelle Landy-Houillon

    Anna-Balakian Award, Association internationale de littérature comparée, 2013

    La Reine de Saba - Des traditions au mythe littéraire

    Aurélia Hetzel

    Biography Award, Académie française, 2013

    Les Lettres et la Tiare. E. S. Piccolomini, un humaniste au XVe siècle

    Serge Stolf

    Académie française Henri-Mondor Award, 2013

    Jouir partout ainsi qu'il sied. Mallarmé et l'esthétique du quotidien

    Barbara Bohac

    Académie française Émile-Faguet Award, 2013

    Les Romans de Bernanos. Métamorphoses de la transcendance

    Karine Robinot-Serveau

    Académie française Georges-Dumézil Award, 2013

    Remarques et observations sur la langue française. Histoire et évolution d'un genre

    Wendy Ayres-Bennett et Magali Seijido

    Monseigneur-Marcel Award, Académie française, 2013

    L'Idéal du repos dans la littérature française du XVIe siècle

    Aldo Gennaï

    Société française d'étude du XVIIIe siècle Award, 2013

    L'Aventure éditoriale de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Noémie Jouhaud

    1833: The beginning. Under the arches of the Palais Royal

    In 1833, two brothers from the department of Manche, Auguste and Hippolyte Garnier, opened a bookstore in the tradition of nineteenth-century publisher-booksellers under the arches of the Palais Royal in Paris, then one of the liveliest centers in the capital. They were soon joined by another of their brothers, Pierre. The business took off very quickly and the Garnier brothers bought up the backlists of Delloye, Dubochet, and Salvat, publishers of the works of the great romantic authors, followed by the classical lists of Panckoucke. They also struck up connections with Sainte-Beuve, Musset, Gautier, Sand, and Vigny, publishing some of their works.

    1853. Settling rue des Saints-Pères

    The Maison Garnier Frères gained even more prestige in 1853 when it moved to the former government building on the corner of the rue de Lille and the rue des Saints-Pères. The Garnier brothers worked to expand and improve their catalog, publishing numerous dictionaries, popular titles, and books for young readers, while also continuing with their literary publications: collections of Latin and Greek classics and modern works (such as Sainte-Beuve’s Causeries du lundi, Grimm’s Correspondance and Chateaubriand’s Œuvres complètes).

    1896. The first “Classiques Garnier”

    1896 saw the appearance of the first of the “Classiques Garnier,” a new collection combining the previous “Classiques latins” [Latin Classics], Classiques grecs” [Greek Classics] and “Bibliothèque choisie” [Selected Library] collections. In the words of the catalog, the new collection offered “the best French and foreign, ancient and modern works at reasonable prices.” It was a success and frequent references to the “Classiques Garnier” featured in autobiographical works thereafter.

    Jean Giono, for instance, recalled how he would be given two francs every Sunday and while “works by Anatole France cost three francs fifty at Calmann-Lévy, Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Virgil were ninety-five centimes in Classiques Garnier. With my two francs I could have two of those chaps and have two centimes change. With those two centimes I could buy a stamp for my letter, because there weren’t any bookstores in Manosque and I ordered books straight from Paris. There must be a whole stack of those letters from me at Garnier from 1911 up to the war of 1914.” (Jean Giono, De Homère à Machiavel).

    From “Garnier Frères” to “Classiques Garnier”

    Yellow was used for the covers from the very start: at first it was a yellow paper that was sometimes more ochre or beige, then it was paper printed in yellow. With the advent of cover illustrations in the 1960s (first in the form of dust jackets) and lamination, the yellow became brighter and more luminous: the Garnier yellow everyone knows.

    Over the course of the twentieth century, scholarly editions increasingly took precedence over those that were more modestly priced, to the point where a deal was struck with Flammarion in the 1960s allowing them to produce low-cost versions of the “Classiques Garnier” that were stripped of critical commentary. This was the start of Garnier-Flammarion, which became an independent company in 1970 under the name GF Flammarion.

    When Éditions Garnier Frères went bankrupt in June 1983, their list was bought up by Presses de la Cité. The “yellow” collection then comprised some two hundred titles governed by editorial policies that remain practically unchanged to this day:
    - a catalog consisting of core works of the great literatures of Europe;
    - editions endorsed by leading specialists;
    - faultless preparation of texts;
    - first-class critical commentary;
    - clear and careful presentation.

    InfoMédia acquired the collection in 1998 with the prime aim of upholding the editorial policies that have made the “Classiques Garnier” famous for over a century.

    Today

    Since 2009, under the editorial direction of Claude Blum, Editions Classiques Garnier has expanded its catalog to include all aspects of literature and the humanities, publishing both editions of texts and studies and essays by top specialists in French literature, foreign literature, linguistics, history, art, music, law, economics and social sciences. Classiques Garnier publishes its titles in three formats and platforms: large, digital and paperback.

    The Classiques Garnier bookstore, located 6 rue de la Sorbonne in Paris, opened in 2011. It is a meeting place where the latest publications are displayed.

     

    The Classiques Garnier bookstore in Paris.

     

    Our house is founded on a certain number of moral, intellectual, and scientific values that have defined the missions of Classiques Garnier today.

     

    1. A major focus: Epistemology

    The guiding principle behind Classiques Garnier's choice of disciplines, themes, collections and their editors, and editorial boards, is epistemology. In each discipline, the focus is on what makes it a discourse and how its structural notions and concepts are constructed. The disciplines that are studied in this way are the humanities (history, art history, language and literature, philosophy, economics and management, sociology, legal history, political science, and media).

    Within this scientific framework, a broad variety of works are accepted or generated, regardless of their potential for distribution. With many of our publications being distributed in quantities of a few dozen copies, the commercial dimension does not fall within the criteria for selection of our projects. In the end, these publications derive their overall meaning from the comprehensive indexation of our databases where they reappear in the search results with a markedly increased presence.

    As a result, Classiques Garnier is a house that is entirely organized around the editors of the collection, the authors, and the scientific and editorial boards. A particular attention is given to the latter whose composition must respect three parity criteria: men/women; junior/senior; French/foreign. In addition, all actors involved in the editorial workflow, whether the editor, peer reviewer, author, or commissioning editor, must adhere to the ethical standards laid out in our charter and commit to upholding these standards when submitting a work for publication. This ethical charter can be found on the homepage of our website under the section “Ethical standards and good practices.”

     

    2. A mission for heritage and its preservation 

    We have a specific mission with regard to heritage that covers four axes:

    - Reconstitution of lost or dispersed heritage: this had been the aim of several large databases; for example “Corpus de la première littérature francophone d’Afrique noire, écrite et orale, des origines aux indépendances (fin 18e siècle-1960)” (“Corpus of the first Francophone literature from sub-Saharan Africa, written and oral, from its origins to independence (late eighteenth century–1960)” or “Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l’Océan Indien, écrite et orale, des origines aux indépendances (18e siècle-1960)” (Corpus of the first Francophone literature from the Indian Ocean, written and oral, from its origins to independence (eighteenth century–1960).” These two corpora unite all literature from Africa and the Indian Ocean, the works of which were scattered in libraries across the five continents and among private owners, hitherto unlisted or in many cases unknown.

    - Provision of entire collections of journals or collections, such as the journal “Cahiers de lexicologie” or the collection “Études d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses.”

    - Preservation of the output of societies of friends of authors (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Gide, Claudel, etc.).

    - Revival of journals that had ceased publication due to a lack of resources or following the death of their publisher, such as “La Revue des lettres modernes” or the journal “Entreprise et société.”

     

    3. The French language as a way of thinking
     

    The editions of Classiques Garnier have an important mission of supporting research conducted in the French language. They thus aim to maintain and to develop a variety of scientific expressions and approaches; maintaining and developing the methodologies of French “Schools” of tradition and ways of thinking in journals and collections dedicated to economics, linguistics, lexicography, philosophy, religious studies, and comparative literature. This is true for example of our six journals on economics and management concerning subjects such as applied economics, the history of economic thinking, the socioeconomics of work, and food systems.

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