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Summary The French Revolution did not create French nationality, but neither did it demolish it. The desire to usher in a new era - An I de la Liberté - was not a desire to wipe the slate clean. The enlightened majority of the National Assembly that …

A Collège de France - CNRS co-production Summary In his opening lecture, Yves Coppens pays tribute to three great figures in prehistory (Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Breuil and André Leroi-Gourhan), describing their respective work and contributions to the …

Abstract In the space of a single generation, we have destroyed more than all the generations that preceded us since the invasions of late Antiquity. I feel a sense of solidarity with this long chain of men and women from the mists of time who have handed …

Summary It would be a mistake to think that Africa remained on the sidelines of world history until it was opened up by colonization, just as it would be a mistake to believe that nothing happened there that wasn't introduced from the outside. This great …

Abstract Indianists must stop defining themselves solely by reference to India, and think of themselves in terms of disciplines: Indianism is merely the application of the human sciences to a specific region of the world. To be a historian of ancient …

What I wanted and tried to do : to pose the question of poetry as a witness to its own time   : to this end, to analyze the paths of poetic creation in the great works of the past -   recognized in their difference thanks to historical works   - but also …

Abstract In 1637, Descartes revolutionized geometry : by associating three coordinates with each point in space, he laid the foundations for algebraic geometry. This geometry is known as " commutative " : the product of two quantities does not depend on …