Paris à la loupe Festival at the Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris

On Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3, 2026, more than 40 researchers, either PhD candidates or those who have defended their thesis in the last five years, will share their work and discoveries. The festival aims to offer a new space for reflection, dialogue, and transmission, open to everyone, focusing on current issues.

The Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris is hosting part of the program!

Location: Orangerie of the Carnavalet Museum-History of Paris, 14 rue Payenne 75003 Paris

Round tables

• Parisian women at work
• Paris, an ecological city?
• Paris on stage
• My life as a PhD student

My thesis in three sources

• Multiple Paris
• Paris and its shops
• Paris and its creators

Detailed program

Friday, October 2

Round table: Parisian women at work | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

This round table will present the industrious Paris, a city of workshops populated by craftsmen and workers, but also by craftswomen and female workers. Women will be in the spotlight, excluded from certain trades to better shine in others, forced to work to avoid falling into poverty, or experts and recognized. By looking at a period ranging from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, the speakers will ask what work does to women and what, in return, they bring to the sphere of Parisian work.

Participants:

• Marie Colas des Francs
  Parisian feather working in the 16th century. Trade and uses of ornamental feathers between 1515-1610, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)
• Dauphine De Haldat
  Trimming in Paris in the 16th century (1520-1610): production, techniques and uses, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)
• Brigitte Dionnet
  Politics and poverty of women in Paris (1789-1804), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
• Anaëlle Pourteau
  "Putting hands to the paste"? From spatial distribution to the gendered division of labor, paid employment for women in Paris (13th-15th century), École des Chartes

Round table moderated by: Juliette Eymeoud, Head of the Iconography Collections, Historic Library of the City of Paris

My thesis in 3 sources: Multiple Paris | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Discover this new format that highlights current research by young scholars working on Paris, while being accessible to all audiences.

• Khémaïs Ben Lakhdar,
  Oriental fashion in Parisian couture at the turn of the 20th century (1860-1931), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
• Clara Dean,
  Scottish presence in Paris in the 18th century, Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Olivia Delporte,
  Art dealers in Paris during the interwar period: at the heart of a women's network, University of Tours.
• Damien Grenèche,
  Paris Fire Brigade 1811-1967: constitution of an elite and a singular identity, University of Lorraine.
• Elsa Jamet,
  At the heart of the Haussmann system: Henri Blondel (1821-1897), architect, entrepreneur and financier, Paris-Sorbonne University.

Moderator: Marie Aynié, Secretary General of the History Committee of the City of Paris

Round table: Paris, an ecological city? | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

For at least twenty years, Paris has been facing the challenges of climate change and is attempting, through public authority actions and citizen initiatives, to respond to this challenge. This round table will showcase theses conducted in architecture, physics, or geography, which testify to the ongoing reflections regarding energy sobriety and the protection of biodiversity, facing a 2050 horizon that is, to say the least, uncertain and worrying.

Participants:

• Lamia Hakim
  Evolutions in social housing operations built in Paris between 2007 and 2020 in the face of energy and environmental requirements, Paris 10 University
• Ghid Karam
  Physical approaches to creating urban cooling islands: application to Parisian schoolyards, Paris-Cité University.
• Hugo Rochard
  Urban renaturation and citizen actions: towards a co-production of the ecological city? Case studies in Greater Paris and New York City, Paris-Cité University.
• Isaure Voedts
  Urban developments, green spaces and dynamics of spontaneous species: analysis of a representative of urban diversity, the brown rat Rattus norvegicus, Paris-Sorbonne University.

Round table moderated by Agnès Lascaux, Head of the Archaeology Department and the Archaeological Crypt, Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris

My thesis in 3 sources: Multiple Paris | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Discover this new format that highlights current research by young scholars working on Paris, while being accessible to all audiences.

• Isabelle Hosltein
  Morphological and social evolution of Paris, 1780 - 1830: national assets appropriated by Fine Arts artists, École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
• Louis Georges
  Time in Paris. Social and urban history of time information (1585 - 1740), Paris 10 Paris-Nanterre University.
• François Mathou
  The "disinherited of the School?": a history of evening classes and their public in the Seine department 1860 - 1914, University of Normandy.
• Pierre Porcher Ancelle
  A mass of granite in the Republic. Boys' and girls' high schools of the Paris Academy under the Third Republic, Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Louise Thiroux
  From mending to care: thinking about Paris through its comfort street furniture, late 18th - late 20th century, Paris Sciences et Lettres University.

Moderator: Séverine Montigny, library curator, Head of the Ephemera Department at the Historic Library of the City of Paris.

Round table: Paris on stage | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

The Parisian theatrical scene of the Belle Époque, in its teeming diversity, will be the subject of this round table. The Comédie-Française institution will enter into dialogue with the mind-blowing novelty of the Moulin Rouge and with the stories and acting methods of Yiddish troupes from Eastern Europe. Classical theater, operetta, music hall, cabaret, the plurality of genres and the multiplicity of creative spaces are all factors that made Paris's reputation as a great European, if not global, capital of spectacle. The invited researchers will review the history of these places and the actors and actresses who made Paris shine during the Belle Époque.

Participants:

• Laurène Haslé
  The management of Adolphe Lemoine-Montigny at the Gymnase Theater from 1844 to 1880, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and University of Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
• Michèle Fornhoff-Levitt
  Yiddish theater in the interwar period in Paris (1919-1939). Jewishness staged, Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Fiona Morel
  Julia Bartet, The Divine: itinerary of an actress and singularity of a female theatrical celebrity during the Belle Époque, École des Chartes.

Round table moderated by Suzanne Rochefort, Associate Professor, University of Lorraine.

Round table: My life as a PhD student | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Participants:

• Fanny Cohen-Moreau, creator of the podcast Passion Médiéviste
• Laura Lambert, PhD, co-host of the podcast Thèse et vous, coordinator of Pint of Science in Bordeaux
• Pierre Baghdad, PhD, activist and elected member of the national CGT doctoral collective

Round table moderated by Susanna Muston, Deputy Head of the Public Service, Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris

Saturday, October 3

My thesis in 3 sources: Paris and its shops | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Discover this new format that highlights current research by young scholars working on Paris, while being accessible to all audiences.

• Défendin Détard
  Parisian mercer merchants between the City and the Court, from the Regency to the French Revolution, Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Sofian Bouchfira
  The Aveyron sources of Parisian lemonade: historical sociology of a social and entrepreneurial form (1958-2017), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
• Camille Napolitano
  The parade of goods. Window dressing and the art of the storefront in Paris during the interwar period, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
• Natacha Rollinde
  What place for independent merchants in the socio-ecological transition? Greengrocers and the transformation of the Parisian food system, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
• Agathe Ménétrier,
  "My dear Jérome Ottoz - from the myth of the color merchant to his micro-history (Paris, 1850s-1890s)", Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Moderator: Néguine Mathieux, Head of the Resource Center, Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris

My thesis in 3 sources: Paris and its creators | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Discover this new format that highlights current research by young scholars working on Paris, while being accessible to all audiences.

• Geoffrey Phelippot
  The Royal Sphere: Nicolas de Fer's cartographic enterprise in Paris (c.1640-1720), École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
• Clotilde Euzennat
  Making a living from portraiture in the 18th century. Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), painter to the king, École des Chartes
• Vladimir Nestorov
  Painting in Paris during the reign of Henry IV and the regency of Marie de' Medici (1594-1620 approx.), Burgundy-Franche-Comté University.
• Justine Lecuyer
  The upholstery decorator from 1848 to 1914: permanence and mutations of a profession at the heart of the French furniture industry, Paris-Sorbonne University.
• Béatrice Cotte
  Bernard Blossac (1927-2002): illustrator of Parisian haute couture, from the Second World War to the 1970s, Artois University
• Florent Guérif
  The Fouquet house: production, networks and jewelry expertise between 1869 and 1960, Paris Sciences et Lettres University.

Moderator: Anne-Laure Sol, Head of the Paintings and Stained Glass Department, Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris