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| Revue des études historiques | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revue des études historiques |
| Discipline | History |
| Language | French |
| Country | France |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 19th century–present |
Revue des études historiques is a French scholarly periodical devoted to historical research and historiography. Founded in the 19th century, the journal has published articles, critical notes, reviews, and bibliographies addressing European, Mediterranean, colonial, and global topics. It has served as a forum linking scholars associated with universities, archives, libraries, and learned societies in France and beyond.
The journal was established in the context of 19th-century academic institutions such as the École des Chartes, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and the Université de Paris, emerging alongside contemporaries like Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine and Revue historique. Early contributors included figures associated with the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, the Société des Antiquaires de France, and archival collections such as the Archives nationales (France). Over successive regimes—Second French Empire, Third French Republic, and the French Fourth Republic—the periodical reflected debates stimulated by events including the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and later the two World War I and World War II. In the 20th century the journal intersected with scholarship linked to institutions like the Collège de France, the Sorbonne, and the Institut de France.
The review’s stated remit covers medieval, early modern, and modern periods with comparative and transnational perspectives touching on regions such as Iberian Peninsula, Italy, British Isles, Balkans, Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. Editorial boards have included members drawn from the École normale supérieure, the École pratique des hautes études, and national research organizations like the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The journal prioritizes archival-based work involving repositories such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Vatican Archives, the British Library, and municipal archives in cities including Lyon, Bordeaux, and Marseille. Peer review procedures reflect protocols akin to those of learned societies such as the Société française d'histoire and professional associations connected to the International Committee of Historical Sciences.
Historically issued in print with quarto and octavo formats, the review’s production has involved printers and publishers who served academic serials in Paris and provincial presses in Lille and Rennes. Typical issues comprise long articles, shorter "notes", critical book reviews, and bibliographical notices concerning monographs published by houses like Éditions Gallimard, Presses universitaires de France, and Librairie Droz. The layout has evolved from dense footnoted pages to modernized citation styles informed by international practice as seen in journals such as English Historical Review and Annales. Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations. Special issues have been dedicated to themes like the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, colonial encounters exemplified by the Algerian conquest of 1830, and the historiography of figures such as Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles de Gaulle, and Joan of Arc.
Across generations the review has featured contributions from historians and archivists connected to institutions including the Mairie de Paris archives, the Institut Pasteur (in contexts of social history of medicine), and university chairs associated with the Université de Strasbourg and Université de Lyon. Prominent names who published in or contributed to debates through the journal encompass scholars linked to the intellectual networks of Jules Michelet, the methodological legacies of Marc Bloch, and contemporaries from the Annales School milieu. Articles have addressed events and figures such as the Battle of Agincourt, the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the Spanish Civil War, the Congress of Vienna, and personalities like Cardinal Richelieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile Zola, and Élisée Reclus in essays combining archival discovery with historiographical argument.
The periodical has been cited in monographs and dissertations produced at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Columbia University, and the University of Chicago, and referenced in bibliographies assembled by libraries including the Library of Congress and the Bodleian Library. Its critical notices influenced book markets surrounding publishers like Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press and shaped scholarly debates about topics from the Reformation to decolonization movements including the Algerian War. Historians in France and abroad have engaged with its articles in conferences organized by bodies such as the European Science Foundation and the International Congress of Historical Sciences.
The journal is indexed in bibliographical services and library catalogs maintained by organizations such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Union des bibliothèques universitaires, and international databases modeled on WorldCat and the MLA International Bibliography. Back issues are held by archives and research libraries in collections at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, university special collections in Grenoble and Rennes, and in digital repositories curated by national library initiatives. Subscription and access pathways mirror those of comparable periodicals archived by consortiums linking university presses and national cultural institutions.
Category:French history journals Category:Academic journals established in the 19th century