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I will still be working on republican culture across different social demographics... but only in Rouen and its sourrouding localities. He was very impressed with the manuscrit d'Horcholle that I had resdiscovered last year, after laying in wait for over a hundred years first at the municipal archives of Rouen, then at the departamental archives of the Seine-Maritime, only to find its way at some point to the Patrimoine Library in Rouen. I guess it is tru, that I've managed to accumulate a lot of knowledge and sources of the city, and that positioning my analysis on the national scale would be too broad and too long even for a PhD. Eh.

What made me look at it positively was my supervisor saying: "If you do this correctly, then by the end of your resesech you will have known every inhabitant of Rouen by name, and not a single one of them would have been able to even sneeze without you knowing." Lmao.

From other things, I will be probably doing (paid) seminars about the Frev for undergraduates, starting in September. So that's pretty cool, too.

In the meantime, I will be applying for a scholarship and trying to work out how to approach my research. The prons and cons of doing social history of the Frev:

Pros: Hardly anyone has been doing it since the 50s.

Hey! Now that I've finally graduated and got my diploma, I'm finally sharing my Master's dissertation with you here on civic festivals in Revolutionary France (1790-1795) in the form of a case study of the Normand town Rouen. You can read it all or download it from my ResearchGate account, linked above. I hope you enjoy it!

Abstract

A few weeks ago I submitted my Master's dissertation about the pedagogy and educational significance of French revolutionary civic festivals, on the example of the Norman town Rouen. Once it gets graded (hopefully positively) by my university, I'll share it on my ResearchGate account for everyone interested! Here's the abstract for now:

I spent last week at the Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime doing some research for my dissertation on civic revolutionary festivals in Rouen.