10:45-12:45

Welcome
Pr Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford

SESSION 1 : Political Legacies and the French Revolution

Chair and Discussant: Julian Swann

« Machine jacobine » et « centralisation jacobine », deux fantasmes historiographiques revisités à l'aune d'un exemple local : la Société populaire de Honfleu
Michel Biard (University of Rouen)

A Military Legacy: The Army and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Alan Forrest (University of York)

14:00-18:00

SESSION 2 : The Weight of Political Legacies in Nineteenth and early Twentieth-Century France

Chair and Discussant: Colin Heywood (University of Nottingham)

Between the present and the future? the uncertain reformist legacy of French socialism
Julian Wright (University of Durham)

François Furet, la révolution et le futur passé de la gauche
Christophe Prochasson (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

SESSION 3 : Third Session: The Legacies of the Recent Past

Chair and Discussant: Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, University of London)

The Legacy of the Resistance in the oral testimony of 1968 activists
Robert Gildea (Worcester College, Oxford)

The Myth of Charles de Gaulle
Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol College, Oxford)

Political Representation in France and the enduring tension between Republican ideals and court style
Jean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS-MFO)

Concluding Remarks
Professor William Doyle, University of Bristol