2-5 October 2002
Marriott Hunt Valley Inn
Baltimore, Maryland
Officers of the Society
K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State
University, President
Kathryn Norberg, UCLA, Vice-President
Anne York, Youngstown State Univeresity,
Secretary
Charlie Steen, University of New Mexico,
Treasurer
Barry Rothaus, University of Northern
Colorado, Greeley, Editor of Proceedings
Bryan A. Skib, University of Michigan,
Web Page Coordinator
Venita Datta, Wellesley College, Immediate
Past President
Council Members
Susan Ashley, Colorado College
Douglas Baxter, Ohio University
Barry H. Bergen, Gallaudet University
Alice Bullard, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan Univ.
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Stephen Harp, University of Akron
Carol F. Harrison, Univ. of South Carolina
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
Catherine J. Kudlick, Univ. of California,
Davis
Diane C. Margolf, Colorado State Univ.
Paul Mazgaj, Univ. of North Carolina,
Greensbobo
Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Univ. of Rhode Island
Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College
Thomas Sosnowski, Kent State Univ., Stark
Timothy Tackett, Univ. of California, Irvine
Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State Univ.
David G. Troyansky, Texas Tech University
Anita Walker, University of Connecticut
Robin R. Walz, University of Alaska Southeast
James A. Winders, Appalachian State University
Honorary Council Members
Brison Gooch, Texas A&M
Georgia Robinson Beale, New Hampshire
Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University
30th Annual Meeting
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, October 2
Registration, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Hunt Valley Coat Room
Governing Council Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
Salon A
Thursday, October 3
Continental Breakfast, 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Hunt Foyer
Registration, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Hunt Valley Coat Room
Book Exhibit, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Pimlico Room
Session 1
Thursday, October 3, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
1A: Rural Rhetoric in 18th-Century France: The
Political and Cultural Uses of “Country”
Chair: Donald Sutherland (University of Maryland)
Amy S. Wyngaard (Syracuse University), From Savage
to Citizen: Inventing the Peasant in the French
Enlightenment
John Shovlin (Hobart & William Smith Colleges),
Patriotism, Agricultural Crisis, and the Fiscal
Debate of 1763
Anthony Crubaugh (Illinois State University),
Patriots and Pariahs: The Peasantry in French
Revolutionary Newspapers
Comment: Zoe Schneider (Georgetown University)
1B: Colonial Cities in French Africa and Indochina:
New Avenues to Colonial History
Chair: Tyler Stovall (University of California,
Berkeley)
Michael Vann (University of California, Santa
Cruz), Doumer’s Delusions of Grandeur: Race
Power, and Culture in Creation of Hanoi as a
French Imperial Capital
David Nelson (University of California, Irvine),
The Rural/Urban Dynamic in French West Africa,
1924-1940
David Del Testa (California Lutheran University),
Sharing ‘The Light of the Capital’: New Urban
Histories for French Indochina.
Seth Graebner (Library of Congress), Contains
Preservatives: Architecture and Conservatism
in Colonial Algeria
Comment: Eric Jennings (University of Toronto)
1C: What is French About France? American Women
and French Society, 1870-1940
Chair: Michael Wilson (University of Texas at Dallas)
Catherine J. Kudlick, (University of California,
Davis), Helen Keller, American Pragmatism, and
French Ideas of Acculturation
Whitney Walton (Purdue University), “Sex, Class,
and National Identities: American Women Students
in Interwar France
Comment: Claire Moses (University of Maryland)
Session 2
Thursday, October 3, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
2A: French Communities Abroad During the Old
Regime
Chair: John T. O’Connor (University of New Orleans)
John Garrigus (Jacksonville University), Le
Patriotisme américain: Emilien Petit and the
Dilemma of French-Caribbean Identity Before
and After the Seven Years’ War
Sara Chapman (Oakland University), Growing
Families: French Colonial Policy in Detroit,
1701
M. Jonah Brewer (Georgetown University), And
the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The French
Nation in Izmir After the Earthquake of 1688
Comment: Sharon Kettering (Montgomery College, emerita)
2B: Crime and Policing during the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Timothy Tackett (University of California,
Irvine)
Nina Kushner (Columbia University), The Genealogy
of Secret Policing in Old Regime France
Lyn Frazer (Auburn University), The Memoirs of
Jacques Peuchet: Crime and Intrigue in Early
Nineteenth-Century Paris
Comment: James M. Donovan (Penn State Mont Alto)
2C: François Guizot Reconsidered
Chair: K. Steven Vincent (North Carolina State
University)
Stanley Mellon (University of Illinois, Chicago,
emeritus), The Strange Unpopularity of Françiois
Guizot
Aurelian Craiutu (University of Indiana),
Guizot and Juste-milieu Liberalism:
A Reconsideration
Barry Shapiro (Allegheny College), Guizot
and the Psychological Origins of Political
Centrism
Comment: Alan Kahan (Florida Atlantic University)
2D: Fashioning Androgynous Identities in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chair: Rene Marion (Ball State University)
Barbara Day-Hickman (Temple University), Le
Constitution des Vesuviennes” and the Struggle
for Gender Parity in Kitchen and Bivouac in 1848
Andrea Mansker (UCLA), “Vive Mademoiselle” The
Virginal Ideal in the Early Twentieth Century
Comment: Elinor Accampo (University of Southern
California)
Luncheon and Plenary Session
Thursday, October 3, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Hunt Ballroom
Jolyon Howorth (University of Bath), France,
NATO, and European Security: An Impossible
Balancing Act?
Session 3
Thursday, October 3, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
3A: Early Modern Women and Gender
Chair: Kathryn Norberg (UCLA)
Anna Maslakovic (SUNY, New Paltz), Bath Houses,
Public Women, and the Public Good in Renaissance
Lyon
Karen L. Taylor (Sidwell Friends School), The
Articulation of Emotion in 18th Century
“Théâtre d’éducation”
Katherine Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College),
Demonic Signatures, Divine Stigmata: The
Female Body Inscribed
Comment: Carolyn Lougee (Stanford University)
3B: Royal and Popular Representations
Chair: Robert W. Brown (University of North Carolina,
Pembroke)
Douglas C. Baxter (Ohio University), Examining
Royalty: The Representation of Monarchy in
Royal Wedding Celebrations, 1680-1775
John P. Lambertson (California University of PA),
A Cauldron of Visual Culture: Popular Spectacle,
High Art, and Politics in the Late Restoration
Sally Charnow (Hofstra) and Carolyn Johnston
(Purdue University), Popular Practices/Modern
Forms: Theatre in Nineteenth Century France
Comment: Steven Kale (Washington State University)
3C: Les Algériens sous Administration Française:
Comparative Perspectives in the Metropole and
in the Colonial Territory
Chair: Venita Datta (Wellesley College)
Alexis Spire (Université de Nantes), Semblables
et pourtant différents: La citoyenneté
paradoxale des français musulmans en métropole,
1945-1962
Amelia Lyons (University of California, Irvine),
The Quiet Fight Against Algerian Nationalism in
the Metropole: Women, Welfare Services and the
Politics of Integration during the Algerian War
Laure Blévis (IEP, Aix-en-Provence), Neither Citizen
nor Foreigner: French Law, Colonial Administration
and the Categorization of Native Populations in
Algeria 1865-1947
Comment: Clifford Rosenberg (City College, City
University of New York)
Plenary Session
Thursday, October 3, 5:00-6:15 p.m.
Hunt Ballroom
The Convergence of Fiction and History in the
Crime Novels of J. Robert Janes
Sarah Fishman (University of Houston), The
Messiness of Everyday Life under the Occupation
Pierre Verdaguer (University of Maryland), The
Occupation as Fictional Setting in French
romans policiers and in the Crime Novels of
J. Robert Janes
Comment: J. Robert Janes, Crime Novelist,
The St-Cyr/Kohler Series
Friday: October 4
Continental Breakfast, 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Hunt Foyer
Registration, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Hunt Valley Coat Room
Book Exhibit, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Pimlico Room
Session 4
Friday, October 4, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
4A: Recipes for Religious Comportment in Early-Modern
France
Co-Chairs: John Rule (Ohio State University) and
John Rothney (Ohio State University)
Jill Fehlieson (George Mason University), Passion
for the People: Catholic Missionaries and their
Use of Emotions
Brian E. Strayer (Andrews University), The Bellicose
Dove Confronts Mystical Babylon: Anti-Catholic
Rhetoric in the Writings of Claude Brousson
Thomas C. Sosnowski (Kent State University, Stark),
Frondeur Recipes for Catholic Piety: Advice from
the Contemporary Press
Comment: Thomas Worcester (College of the Holy Cross)
4B: Art and the Nation
Chair: Joy Hall (Colorado College)
Richard D. Sonn (University of Arkansas), Anarchism
and the Avant-Garde in the Interwar Era
Sylvie Waskiewicz (New York University), Si “La France”
m’était conté: The Construction of a National Cinema
in Postwar France
Linda Stratford (Asbury College), Scholars and “Truly
French” Art in the Fourth Republic
Comment: James Winders (Appalachian State University)
4C: Creating the Past: Time, Place, War, and Memory
in France
Chair: M.K. Rhoades (Wabash College, IN)
Bette W. Oliver (University of Texas, Austin), Visible
Reminders: The Persistence of the Past
Deborah D. Buffton (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse),
The Intersection of the Past and the Present: Creating
the Memory of World War I in Lille
W. Scott Haine (University of Maryland, University
College), The Creation of Memory and Myth of the
Great War and the Allies in Parisian-Area Cafes
Comment: Mona L. Siegel (University of Cinncinnati)
4D: Medicine and Identity in French Colonies of the Early Twentieth Century
Chair: Barry H. Bergen (Gallaudet University)
Ellen Amster (University of Pennsylvania), Harem
Medicine, Slavery, and the Islamic-French Family:
Aline de Lens and the Frenchwoman’s Colonial
Mission in Morocco, 1915-1925
Jeremy Rich (Cabrini College), Of Blackmail and
Bad Whites: Racial Identities, Euro-African
Relationships, and the Politics of Scandal in
Colonial Libreville, 1920-1945
Comment: Thomas Kselman (Notre Dame)
Session 5
Friday, October 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
5A: Reconstructing Gender in Seventeenth Century
France: New Directions from an Old Category
Chair: Alison Klairmont-Lingo (Independent Scholar)
Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University), Marie
de Médicis, Cardinal Richelieu, and the Gendering
of Political Priorities
Daniella J. Kostroun (Stonehill College), The Logic
of Gender at Port Royal
Leslie Tuttle (University of Kansas), Gender and
Mercantilism: The Example of Natalist Policy
Comment: Barbara Diefendorf (Boston University)
5B: Decadence and Its Discontents in the Late
Third Republic
Chair: Katharine Norris (American University)
Paul Mazgaj (University of North Carolina,
Greensboro), “Constructing Decadence”: Maurrasian
Intellectuals and the Rhetoric of French Decline,
1890-1940
Seth Armus (Saint Joseph’s College), “Patriots
malgre nous”: JE SUIS PARTOUT and the Outbreak
of War, 1939-1940
Richard Crane (Greensboro College), French
Catholicism and the Theodicy of National
Disaster: Fram the Pages of LA CROIX, summer 1940
Comment: Susan Ashley (Colorado College)
5C: Diplomacy Under DeGaulle
Chair: Donna Ryan (Gallaudet University)
Lawrence X. Clifford (Boston College), The Last Meeting
of De Gaulle and Tukhachevsky
Anthony Adamthwaite (University of California, Berkeley),
De Gaulle’s Second ‘NON’: Franco-British Relations
and the Future of Western Europe in the 1960s
Comment: Hines Hall (Auburn University)
Luncheon and Plenary Session
Friday, October 4, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Hunt Ballroom
Natalie Zemon Davis (Princeton University, emeritus),
The Unhappy Émigré: Lazare Sainean and the Languages
of France
Session 6
Friday, October 4, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
6A: David Bell’s The Cult of the Nation in France:
Interdisciplinary Evaluations
Moderator: Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts)
Panelists:
Jeremy King (Mt. Holyoke College)
Arthur Goldhammer (Freelance Author and Translator)
James Swenson (Rutgers University)
David Bell (Johns Hopkins Univeserity)
6B: Emigrants and Exiles: Colonial Migrations in
the Nineteenth-Century
Chair: Victoria Thompson (Arizona State University)
Allyson Delnore (University of Virginia), Convicted
Colonists: Making Space in the Empire for the
June Insurgents, 1848
Jennifer Sessions (University of Pennsylvania),
“L’Algerie devenue française”: The Naturalization
of Non-French Colonists in French Algeria, 1830-1849
Claire Salinas (Stanford University), Woman Abroad:
Colonial Emigration, Gender, and Republican
Liberalism, 1897-1901
Comment: Stephen Harp (University of Akron)
6C: Democratization in Postwar France
Chair: Donald G. Jones (University of Central Arkansas)
David R. Applebaum (Rowan University), L’Affaire
Bidalou: Immigrants Access to Justice and Democracy
W. Brian Newsome (University of South Carolina),
The Apartment Referendum of 1959: A Shift Toward
Participatory Politics of Architectural Planning
and Urban Development in Postwar France
Nicole Rudolph (New York University), “The Voice
of Those Who Have No Voice”: Critiques of
State-Planned Housing in 1950s France
Comment: Steven Zdatny (West Virginia University)
Plenary Session
October 4, 5:00-6:15 p.m.
The French Revolution: Possible Because Thinkable
or Thinkable Because Possible?
Chair: David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
William Doyle (University of Bristol)
Keith Baker (Stanford University)
Comment: Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst)
Reception
Friday, 6:15-7:30 p.m.
Banquet
Friday, 7:30-10:00 p.m.
Garden Room
Saturday, October 5
Continental Breakfast, 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Hunt Foyer
Registration, 8:00-11:00 a.m.
Hunt Valley Coat Room
Book Exhibit, 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Pimlico Room
Session 7
Saturday, October 5, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
7A: Objectifying Cultures, Fixing Identities:
Materiality and Power in the Ancien Regime
Chair: Daryl M. Hafter (Eastern Michigan University)
Elizabeth Hyde (The College of New Jersey), The
Stuff of Kingship: Louis XIV, the Trianon de
porcelaine, and the Material Culture of Power
Julia Landweber (Gettysburg College), Turkish
Delight: The Eighteenth-Century Market in
Turqueries and the Commercialization of French
Identity
Michael R. Lynn (Agnes Scott College), Selling
Science: Balloons, Commerce, and Mass Culture
in Eighteenth-Century France
Comment: Abby Zanger (Yale University)
7B: Revolutions of 1830, 1848, and Commune
Chair: Denise Davidson (Georgia State University)
Terry W. Strieter (Murray State University), Revisiting
the July 1830 Revolution: The Role of the Parisian
Gendarmes in the Overthrow of the Bourbons
Stephen W. Sawyer, The Taming of Paris: Municipal and
National Authority in the French Capital, 1846-1851
Christopher E. Guthrie (Tarleton State University),
The Repression of the Commune of Narbonne (1871)
Comment: Carol F. Harrison (University of South Carolina)
7C: May ’68 and Its Aftermath: Historiographical
Reflections and New Directions: A Roundtable
Chair: Torbjörn Wandel (Truman State University)
Julian Bourg (University of California, Berkeley),
Against l’actualité: Dilemmas in Historicizing
May 1968
Jonathan Judaken (University of Memphis), May-June
1968: The Jewish Sub-Text
Michael Seidman (University of North Carolina,
Wilmington), The Historiography of the Workers’
Strikes (May-June 1968)
Michael Christofferson (Penn State University,
Erie), Explaining Gauchisme’s Demise in the
Early 1970s
Session 8
Saturday, October 5, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
8A: Institutional Reform under the French Revolution
and Napoleon
Chair: Eric A. Arnold, Jr. (University of Denver)
Laura Emerson Talamante (UCLA), The Republican Family
and Divorce in Marseille, 1793
Sylvia Neely (Penn State University), The Military
Committee of the Legislative Assembly:
Institutional Development or Political
Conflict?
Daniel Klang (University of British Columbia,
emeritus), Political Economy in the Cisalpine
Republic
Comment: Paul Hanson (Butler University)
8B: Roundtable: Remembering Ned Newman, Historian
of France, Founder of the WSFH, and Friend
Chair and Participant: William Weber (California
State University, Long Beach)
Other Participants:
Pamela Pilbeam (University College, London)
Sheryl Kroen (University of Florida, Gainsville)
James Friguglietti (Montana State University, Billings)
Bertram Gordon (Mills College)
Barry Rothaus (University of Northern Colorado)
Jean-Claude Caron (University of Clermont-Ferrand)
James M. Donovan (Penn State, Mont Alto)
Business and Awards Luncheon
Saturday, October 5, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Additional Information
Proceedings of the conference may be ordered from the
University Press of Colorado, beginning with Volume 24.
The cost for non-members in North America is $45; for
foreign institutions is $50, including those in Canada
and Mexico.
Membership in the Society is U.S. $35 for faculty and
supporters, and $20 for graduate students. Please send
checks to Charlie R. Steen, WSFH Treasurer, Department
of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM 87131
Index
Accampo, Elinor, 2D
Adamthwaite, Anthony, 5C
Amster, Ellen, 4D
Applebaum, David R., 6C
Armus, Seth, 5B
Arnold, Eric A., 8A
Ashley, Susan, 5B
Baker, Keith, Plenary, Oct. 4
Baxter, Douglas C., 3B
Bell, David, 6A, Plenary, Oct. 4
Bergen, Barry H., 4D
Blévis, Laure, 3C
Bourg, Julian, 7C
Brewer, M. Jonah, 2A
Brown, Robert, W., 3B
Buffton, Deborah D., 4C
Caron, Jean-Claude, 8B
Chapman, Sara, 2A
Charnow, Sally, 3B
Christofferson, Michael, 7C
Clifford, Lawrence X., 5C
Craiutu, Aurelian, 2C
Crane, Richard, 5B
Crawford, Katherine, 5A
Crubaugh, Anthony, 1A
Datta, Venita, 3C
Dauge-Roth, Katherine, 3A
Davidson, Denise, 7B
Davis, Natalie Zemon, Plenary Lunch, Oct. 4
Day-Hickman, Barbara, 2D
Del Testa, David, 1C
Delnore, Allyson, 6B
Diefendorf, Barbara, 5A
Donovan, James M., 2B
Doyle, William, Plenary, Oct. 4
Fehlieson, Jill, 4A
Fishman, Sarah, Plenary, Oct. 3
Frazer, Lyn, 2B
Friguglietti, James, 8B
Garrigus, John, 2A
Gordon, Bertram, 8B
Gordon, Daniel, 6A, Plenary, Oct. 4
Goldhammer, Arthur, 6A
Graebner, Seth, 1C
Guthrie, Christopher E., 7B
Hafter, Daryl M., 7A
Haine, W. Scott, 4C
Hall, Hines, 5C
Hall, Joy, 4B
Hanson, Paul, 8A
Harp, Stephen, 6B
Harrison, Carol F., 7B
Howorth, Jolyon, Plenary Lunch, Oct. 3
Hyde, Elizabeth, 7A
Janes, J. Robert, Plenary, Oct. 3
Jennings, Eric, 1C
Jones, Donald G., 6C
Judaken, Jonathan, 7C
Kale, Steven, 3B
Kettering, Sharon, 2A
King, Jeremy, 6A
Klairmont-Lingo, Alison, 5A
Klang, Daniel, 8A
Kostroun, Daniella J., 5A
Kroen, Sheryl, 8B
Kselman, Thomas, 4D
Kudlick, Catherine J., 1B
Kushner, Nina, 2B
Lamberton, John P., 3B
Landweber, Julia, 7A
Lougee, Carolyn, 3A
Lynn, Michael R., 7A
Lyons, Amelia, 3C
Mansker, Andrea, 2D
Marion, Rene, 2D
Maslakovic, Anna, 3A
Mazgaj, Paul, 5B
Mellon, Stanley, 2C
Moses, Claire, 1B
Neely, Sylvia, 8A
Nelson, David, 1C
Newsome, W. Brian, 6C
Norberg, Kathryn, 3A
Norris, Katherine, 5B
O’Connor, John T., 2A
Oliver, Bette W., 4C
Pilbeam, Pamela, 8B
Rhoades, M.K., 4C
Rich, Jeremy, 4D
Rosenberg, Clifford, 3C
Rothaus, Barry, 8B
Rothney, John, 4A
Rudolph, Nicole, 6C
Rule, John, 4A
Ryan, Donna, 5C
Salinas, Claire, 6B
Sawyer, Stephen W., 7B
Schneider, Zoe, 1A
Seidman, Michael, 7C
Sessions, Jennifer, 6B
Shapiro, Barry, 2C
Shovlin, John, 1A
Siegel, Mona L., 4C
Sonn, Richard D., 4B
Sosnowski, Thomas C., 4A
Spire, Alexis, 3C
Stratford, Linda, 4B
Strayer, Brian E., 4A
Strieter, Terry W., 7B
Stovall, Tyler, 1C
Sutherland, Donald, 1A
Swenson, James, 6A
Tackett, Timothy, 2B
Talamante, Laura Emerson, 8A
Taylor, Karen L., 3A
Thompson, Victoria, 6B
Tuttle, Leslie, 5A
Vann, Michael, 1C
Verdaguer, Pierre, Plenary, Oct. 3
Vincent, K. Steven, 2C
Walton, Whitney, 1B
Walz, Robin, Plenary, Oct. 3
Wandel, Torbjörn, 7C
Waskiewicz, Sylvie, 4B
Weber, William, 8B
Wilson, Michael, 1B
Winders, James, 4B
Worcester, Thomas, 4A
Wyngaard, Amy S., 1A
Zanger, Abby, 7A
Zdatny, Steven, 6C
Art Credit:
The photographs in this
program are by Edwin Martin.
They are protected by copyright
and reproduced with his
permission.
Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University
Jolyon Howorth, University of Bath
Local Arrangements
David Bell, Johns Hopkins University
Jack Censer, George Mason University
Rene Marion, Ball State University
Jeffrey Sawyer, University of Baltimore
K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University
Program Committee
Venita Datta, Wellesley College
Paul Hanson, Butler University
Alison Klairmont-Lingo, Independent Scholar
K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University
Acknowledgements
The Society gratefully thanks the following
department and institution for their generous
financial assistance:
Department of History, Gallaudet University
College of _______, Gallaudet University