#  Patrice Higonnet 

Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 location\_on Center for European StudiesRoom 12327 Kirkland StreetCambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [617-998-5406](tel:617-998-5406) 

 email <higonnet@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Professor Higonnet has written on 17th-century French painting, 18th-century French diplomacy, 19th-century French deputies and immigrants, 20th-century municipal officers, and Vich.

 He is the chair of the study group on Culture and Politics.

**Selected Publications**

- *La gloire et l'echafaud: Vie et destin de l'architecte de Marie-Antoinette* (2011)
- *Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution* (1998)
- *Fortune* co-edited with David Landes and Henry Rosovky (1991)
- *Sister Republics: the Origins of French and American Republicanism* (1988)
- *Class, Ideology, and the Rights of Nobles during the French Revolution* (1981)
- *Pont-de-Montvert: Social Structure and Politics in a French Village* , 1700-1914 (1971)

**Links:**

[Center for European Studies](http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/)



 

 

 





 

 

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