This one-day online research workshop is part of a program led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles (CRCV) devoted to the social, material, and cultural history of foreign diplomats in Paris during the early modern period (from the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648 to the end of the French Ancien Régime in 1792). The program aims to shift the focus toward the individuals who keep diplomacy running day to day, from ambassadors to secretaries, from nuncios to residents, without (…)
Symposium on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of her birth, organised by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles and Nantes Université.
Despite the fact that the Œuvres complètes of La Grande Mademoiselle have just been published for the first time (three volumes edited by Jean Garapon for éditions Honoré Champion, 2020-2024), and that she was the subject of twelve biographies published in the 20th century, the only symposium (or study day, rather) about her that has ever (…)