Annual of French Studies
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Institute of World History Russian Academy of Science |
| ISSN | 0235-4349 |
| Wikidata | Q96702618 |
| OpenAlex | S4210231754 |
| MAG | 4210231754 |
| Total de publicações | 117 |
| Período coberto | 2020 - 2025 |
| País | RU |
| Idioma | EN |
This journal covers French Studies, which can include history, culture, and society. As an area studies journal, it has the potential for regular anthropological intersection, particularly if it features social or cultural historical content
American Constitutional Law and Politics · Central European and Russian historical studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · European Cultural and National Identity · European history and politics · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Global Political and Economic Relations
"War of the Worlds": The French occupation of Southern Italy in 1799 in the testimonies of participants and eyewitnesses
In the 18th century, Enlightenment ideas swept Western Europe. The Italian Peninsula was not immune to their influence, although Enlightenment values were shared by a relatively narrow circle of educated elites, while they were alien to the bulk of the population. Therefore, when the French invaded Naples in 1799 and established the Parthenopean Republic, Southern Italian society was divided, and this division escalated into civil war: some enthu…
Between the tricolor cockade and the moor's head: Corsica in 1793
The year 1793 was a difficult one for France as a whole and for many departments in particular. Corsica was no exception: that year became a turning point, when a decision about which path the island would take had to be made. However, Corsica was pushed to make this choice by Paris. It was in 1793 that the Convention declared Corsica rebellious and blamed General Pascal Paoli for it. After the Sardinian expedition, unsuccessful for the republica…
The French Revolution: Popular sovereignty versus the centralized state
It was thought that during the French Revolution, the implementation of popular sovereignty would go hand in hand with the construction of the “centralized Jacobin state” embodied by Robespierre and inherited by Bonaparte. On the contrary, the implementation of popular sovereignty between 1789 and 1795 was accompanied by a “decentralization” of executive power, a trend that was reinforced in 1793-1794. What historiography calls “Jacobinism” is th…
A critical look at the relationship between Emir Abd al-Qadir and King Louis Philippe
The relations between Emir Abd al-Qadir (1808–1883) and the French King Louis-Philippe I of Orléans (1773–1850) during the July Monarchy were not always conflictual, contrary to what official history has supposed. Thus, the direct epistolary relations and those through the intermediary of the others, the epistolary exchanges between the two protagonists who were sometimes cordial and abundantly revealed in archives and French historiography, even…
The conqueror of Napoleon. Reflections on the new biography of M. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov
The personality of M. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, the victor over Napoleon in 1812, has caused and continues to cause heated debate for over 200 years. The new biography of M. I. Kutuzov, proposed by A. G. Vlasenko and based on an extensive set of documents, many of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, is intended to sum up some of these debates. The author's focus was primarily on the history of two wars - 1805…
Life and death of a Soviet French studies specialist. Nina Sidorova (1910–1961)
Nina Aleksandrovna Sidorova (1910–1961) holds a reputation as the «evil genius of Russian medieval studies», embodying the Stalinist style of scholarship and characterized by excessive ambition; her works are often denied any scholarly significance. This view was shared even by those Russian medievalists of the early 21st century who fervently disagreed with one another in their assessments of the past of our academic community. Yet, it remains l…
Police supervision on Russians in Paris in 18th century (about the book by D. Kondakov and A. Stroev)
The author analyzes a joint work by D. Kondakov and A. Stroyev, published in 2024 and devoted to the surveillance practices of the Parisian police, carried out jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on travelers arriving from Russia. The book was translated into Russian in 2025. The main content of the work consists of a chronologically organized set of archival documents, primarily police reports, which the authors collected over a period…
Power and society: Orleanism vs democracy
The article is devoted to the problem of the relationship between liberalism and democracy in France during the July Monarchy (1830–1848). The study focuses on the position of the French moderate Orleanist liberals, supporters of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans, who became the king of the French as a result of the July Revolution of 1830. Analyzing the works of such Orleanist leaders as F. Guizot, P.-P. Royer-Collard, and others, the author of the artic…
Egyptian anti-French resistance in the province of Rosetta (July – September 1798)
The military and political expansion of the French Republic into the territories of other countries during the Revolutionary Wars of 1792–1802 was carried out under the guise of “liberation” rhetoric. While claiming to “liberate” other nations from their tyrants, revolutionary France actually occupied neighboring countries and extracted resources from them. In 1798, at the head of the Oriental Army, Napoleon Bonaparte also planned to carry out th…
Who needs a Republic? (About the book by D. Di Matteo)
In a book published in 2022, dedicated to the events of 1799 in the southern Italian region of Terra di Bari, author Giuseppe Di Matteo analyzes the region's socioeconomic, political, and cultural characteristics, reconstructs the events that unfolded there after the French invasion of Naples and the establishment of the Parthenopean Republic. He attempts to answer the question of why some cities in Terra di Bari sided with the Republic, while ot…
Searching for sensual delights: Frenchmen’s adventures in the Taurida in the Late-Eighteenth century
After its unification with Russia in 1783, the Crimea became a travellers’ attraction; many of these voyagers were Frenchmen, not always as their nationality, but always in terms of their language and culture. Understanding the peninsula as a part of the Orient, known mostly from books, the travellers considered that there was the “other” ethics and morals, so the most incredible erotic adventures were possible. The exploits of many travellers we…
«No one had thought of establishing a System of Terror» Reflections on the book by M. Biar and M. Linton
In their monograph "Terror. Demons of the French Revolution" Michel Biard and Marisa Linton offer a new understanding of one of the most controversial phenomena of the French Revolution - the Terror. They aim to prove that the Terror did not have a clear chronology, was not carried out according to a pre-planned plan and, ultimately, was not a "system" as many historians believe: this concept was invented by Thermidorian propaganda. The book touc…
Poor, poor Louis… The French Revolution in the Syro-Lebanese chronicles
The article is devoted to the perception of the French Revolution of 1789–1799 by the Syrian-Lebanese contemporaries. In the spring of 1799, Syria was invaded by Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. One of the reasons for the failure of the campaign was the lack of active support for the French army from the local Christian population. The reasons for the cautious position of the Syro-Christians are revealed by analyzing the…
Catalonia against Napoleon: Anti-French resistance 1808–1814
In February 1808 French troops arrived in Barcelona as allies of Spain. However, the goodwill and hospitality of the locals soon gave way to suspicion and then hatred of the French, which by the summer of that year had led to mass anti-French movements throughout Catalonia. The article focuses on the formation of anti-French resistance in Catalonia in 1808, the role of the religious factor in anti-French uprisings, and the specifics of the activi…
Foreign sources on the history of the siege of Hamburg by the troops of the anti-French coalition in 1813–1814
In the winter of 1813–1814, the allies of the anti-French coalition besieged Hamburg, which was defended by troops under the command of Marshal N. Davout. Napoleon attached great importance to this city at the mouth of the Elbe, and Davout stubbornly defended it, capitulating only after Napoleon's abdication. The siege placed a heavy burden on the shoulders of the population. After the end of the war, a discussion unfolded, with the figure of Nap…
The King is dead: How the French-language press described the death and burial of Louis XV
The article examines the problem of continuity and changes in the conduct and description of the burial ceremony of the King of France during the 18th century. The sources for it were articles and notes dedicated to the death and funeral of Louis XV, in the official French newspaper La Gazette de France, in the literary magazines Le Mercure de France, L'Année Littéraire, Le Journal Encyclopédique and in the French-language press, published in Ams…
Marshal Boucicaut’s mission to Constantinople
This article addresses the history of French participation in the defence of Constantinople besieged by the Ottomans. In 1399, responding to the request of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos for military assistance, King Charles VI of France sent a detachment of knights under the command of Marshal of France Jean II le Meingre, nicknamed Boucicaut, to the Byzantine capital. In Constantinople, the Marshal chose offensive tactics and made a series of na…
Anatomy of a failed Revolution on 9 thermidor (About the book by Colin Jones)
The author of the article analyzes the latest monograph by the British historian Colin Jones, «The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Paris During the French Revolution» published in 2025 in Russian. Based on a wide range of archival documents, Jones tells by the hour and even by the minute about what was happening simultaneously in different parts of Paris with different people on 9 Thermidor, which gives his study not only a cinematic quality, bu…
The creation of a citizen (evolution of the concept of «citizenship» in the Early Modern time)
Before the French Revolution, there was a rich tradition of comprehension of the term "citizen", dating back to Antiquity, to Aristotle. The meaning of this concept evolved from a member of a community (city-state) participating in the exercise of political power to a bourgeois who had certain rights and privileges within the city, and further, already in the Modern times and the Age of Enlightenment, to a full member of the political organism cr…
«The King of France sits on the throne of justice». How the government and society created the French Monarchy together
At the initial stage of the construction of monarchical states in medieval Europe, the main function of the supreme secular power was the administration of justice. The Church laid the ideological foundations for strengthening monarchical power: the sacred concept of justice combined with the ideas of theologians about special royal dignity as service for the common good. The "reception" of Roman law transformed the status of the monarch, turning…
Medieval prison: Between «diligence» and «care»
The article is devoted to the problem of the emergence and functioning of the penitentiary system in medieval France. Based on the data of the royal legislation, local (customary) law records, materials of judicial practice, as well as works related to the so-called prison literature (that is, the writings of those authors who found themselves in prison and described their personal experiences), the author of the article comes to the conclusion a…
The expulsion of the French from Turin by the Austro-Russian forces in 1799
During the Italian Campaign of 1799, the siege of French-occupied Turin by the Austro-Russian forces lasted from May 14/25 to June 9/20. During this time, the city experienced two major artillery bombardments. After the first, the entire French garrison redeployed to the citadel, while the main part of the city was occupied by the allies. The city’s National Guard played an active role in these events, opening one of the gates for the allied troo…
Melchiorre Gioia on the Italian anti-French resistance and the devastation of Lombardy
For those studying the anti-French popular resistance in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars, the few historical works by contemporary Italian authors of the early 19th century are particularly significant. The author analyzes how the renowned Milanese intellectual Melchiore Gioia (1767–1829) interpreted the phenomenon of popular resistance in Northern Italy. In 1801, Gioia was appointed historiographer of the Cisalpine Republic. Although he was not…
How Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie did not become a micro-historian
The article analyzes the work of the outstanding French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), a pupil of Ernest Labrousse and Fernand Braudel, one of the oldest and most prominent representatives of the third generation of the «Annals»’ school. Paying tribute to the variety of scientific interests of the historian, the author of the article focused on one aspect of his work – on the definition of E. Le Roy Ladurie, which regularly appear…
The case of the Honor of the Mont Blanc Department of 1814
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The power of the “Fourth power”: The image of Russia in the French press in 1789-1814
Trafalgar and Waterloo: Metamorphoses of French historical memory
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In Memoriam. Nina Aleksandrovna Khachaturyan
How the community of historians works (on the book by A.V. Gordon and its sad characters)
From clerk to deputy: The beginning of the political career of J.-L. Tallien
The Sexual Revolution in Napoleon's Empire: Pro et contra (about the book by J. O. Boudon)
Our Good Friend Alan Forrest (On the 75th anniversary of his birth)
On the Mechanisms Which Shaped Stereotypes of Eastern Europe in French Culture (Reflections on Vladimir Orekhov’s Book)
Survive the epidemic: The experience of the Great Marseille Plague of 1720
The plague in Bonaparte's Army of Orient, 1798–1801
Presidents of the French republic in the evaluation of Yu.I. Rubinsky
The Napoleonic Wars in the Context of Global History (Around the new book by Alexander Mikaberidze)
“Velvet” French imperialism (On David Tosdd’s book)
Confrontation between revolutionary France and Great Britain in the Western Mediterranean (about the book by J. Meeks)
The concept of “total war” in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period
Adventures of the term “absolutism” in Russian historiography (on the book by L.V. Landina)
On the history of a Russian-French engraving of the Napoleonic era
Cholera epidemic of 1832 in Paris
Cholera in the French army in the Crimea 1854-1855
Contemporary English-language historiography of the occupation of France in 1815–1818
Pyotr Petrovich Tcherkassov: Advocate of the Russian-French dialogue (On the 75th anniversary of his birth)
Napoleonic era in perception of modern France
Farewell “gift” of the Great Army: The typhus epidemic in Europe in 1813-1814