Abstract: The way in which we distinguish Taine the historian from Taine the psychologist, critic, and writer, is anachronistic. This work sets out to reveal the unity in his work and also reflects on the nature of the human sciences, whose modern identity Taine helped to forge.
Keyword: Taine, histoire, xixe siècle, histoire des sciences humaines et sociales, histoire des intellectuels, historiographie, histoire de la critique littéraire, histoire de la psychologie, science mondaine, sociabilités intellectuelles
