Presentation
From an editorial point of view, as well as from the point of view of the relationship between the historical discipline and public debate, the first edition ofWorld History of France in 2017 undoubtedly marked a historiographical moment. Whatever one's assessment of the sometimes bitter debates that this book has provoked, it is necessary to take a critical look back at this experiment. The importance of this experiment can no longer be measured in terms of the book's proposals, but rather in terms of how they have been understood, taken up and displaced. The aim of this international colloquium is therefore to open up a wide-ranging debate with those who have used this model, if not as a model, at least as a source of inspiration, to think differently about the relationship between the national narrative and world history. To date, there are twelve publishing houses in Europe that offer a comparable world history of nations (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, as well as Catalonia, Sicily, Flanders and Lorraine). For European history can also be written as the sum of the global histories of the nations that make it up.
Scientific coordination: Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po Paris), Florian Mazel (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Yann Potin (Archives nationales), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)