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Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH)
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JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
10. Last but certainly not least, a letter from outgoing @thewsfh.bsky.social President Nick Underwood. Thank you, Nick, for all of your work & best wishes for great year ahead to incoming President @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social.

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Letter from the President of the Western Society for French History
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December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
9. The 2025 edition of the JWSFH MIXTAPE, featuring selections of rad work from 2024-25 by @jean23bean.bsky.social @vlvde.bsky.social & @thewsfh.bsky.social Past President Emily Marker (with amazing original art by @tgpeterson.bsky.social)

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<em>JWSFH</em> Mixtape: 2025 Edition
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December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
8. NOTES ON SOURCES: "The Anxious Origins of a French Colonial Monument: The Duc d’Orléans in Algiers," by
@laprofmme.bsky.social
re: an 1842 fundraising appeal to erect a statue in Algiers in honor of Ferdinand Philippe, duc d’Orléans.

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The Anxious Origins of a French Colonial Monument: The <em>Duc d’Orléans</em> in Algiers
This note on sources discusses an 1842 fundraising appeal by military officials, administrators, and commercial elites seeking to erect a statue in Algiers in honor of Ferdinand Philippe, duc d’Orléan...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
7. NOTES ON SOURCES: "The Vice Squad and the Fortune Teller," by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social, on the perception of mediums & fortune-tellers as agents of vice in a 1931 French police report examining classified advertisements in the Parisian press.

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The Vice Squad and the Fortune Teller
This note on sources considers how to write a history of fortune telling by examining a 1931 vice squad report on immoral advertising in illustrated weeklies. The vice squad policed prostitution but, ...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
6. INTERVENTIONS: "Andor (Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space," a so-smart & also funny dialog between @tgpeterson.bsky.social & editor @meghankroberts.bsky.social about ANDOR!
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<em>Andor </em>(Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space
In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
5. INTERVENTIONS: "Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire," by @donalh.bsky.social that calls for a broader conception of the war in the colonies.
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Beyond the <em>Tirailleur</em>: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire
The Centenary of the First World War saw a new focus in official commemoration, cultural production and broader scholarly and public discourses on the figure of the colonial soldier, the tirailleur. I...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
4. "Gendering French History: The Significance of Karen Offen's Books on the Woman Question in France," a roundtable featuring Elinor Accampo, Linda Clark, Sara L. Kimble, Daniella Kostroun & Jean Pederson, with a reply from Offen herself.
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Gendering French History: The Significance of Karen Offen's Books on the Woman Question in France
A roundtable discussion of Karen Offen's The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (published by Cambridge University Press in 201...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
3. "Claudius La Roussarie: Un personnage hors-série," an article by Floriana Ceresato that examines the career of the theater actor Claudius La Roussarie.
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Claudius La Roussarie: Un personnage hors-série
This article presents the initial findings of research on Claudius La Roussarie, a theater actor and author active in France during the early twentieth century. Despite his literary production, he rem...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
2. "On the Road: Jewish Authors in Vichy France," an article by Richard Sonn that considers the challenges faced by Jewish artists in France under the German Occupation after 1940.
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On the Road: Jewish Artists in Vichy France
Hundreds of Jewish artists arrived in Paris in the first third of the twentieth century, where most attended art schools and established studios in the left-bank artists’ colony of Montparnasse. Forei...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
1. Letter from the [email protected] @rpanchasi.bsky.social & @meghankroberts.bsky.social.

This is Meghan & Roxanne's final volume of three. Andy will stay on to work with new editors @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social & @plso.bsky.social.
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Letter from the Editors
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December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is the final issue for editors @rpanchasi.bsky.social & @meghankroberts.bsky.social, but @andrewmdaily.bsky.social will be continuing on with a new pair of co-editors whose identities will be revealed soon-stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We've also got fortunetellers, monuments & commemorations, c18-21 masculinity & race + a feature re: ANDOR!

Contributors to the vol. include: @jean23bean.bsky.social
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @tgpeterson.bsky.social @laprofmme.bsky.social & @vlvde.bsky.social
Follow them all!
October 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM