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Chronology
| 1790 | Archives nationales (National Archives) in Paris |
| 1794 | École normale supérieure (Advanced College of Education for the training of secondary school teachers) in Paris |
| 1796 | Archives by ‘département’ (department) |
| 1802 | Académie celtique (Celtic Academy) in Paris |
| 1808 | Napoleon’s imperial Université. Foundation of the arts faculties, with chairs in history |
| 1821 | École des Chartes (School of Palaeography and Archival Studies) in Paris |
| 1824 | Société des antiquaires de Normandie (Society of Antiquaries of Normandy) in Caen, founded by Arcisse de Caumont |
| 1830 | ‘Agrégation’ in history and geography (only for men) |
| 1832 | Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) in Paris |
| 1833 | Société de l’histoire de France (History of France Society) in Paris. First archaeological and scientific congress of learned societies. Musée de l’histoire de France at Versailles (Museum of the History of France) |
| 1834 | Comité des travaux historiques (Historical Proceedings Committee) founded in Paris by François Guizot. Société française pour la conservation des Monuments (French Society for the Preservation of Monuments) in Paris |
| 1844 | Revue archéologique (Archaeological Review) |
| 1866 | Revue des Questions historiques (Journal of Historical Issues) |
| 1868 | École pratique des hautes études (EPHE, Practical School of Advanced Studies) in Paris |
| 1872 | École libre des sciences politiques (ELSP, Independent School of Political Sciences) in Paris |
| 1876 | Revue historique (Historical Review) |
| 1881 | École normale supérieure de jeunes filles de Sèvres (Sèvres Advanced College of Education for Women) |
| 1882 | École du Louvre (Louvre School) in Paris |
| 1884 | ‘Agrégation’ in history and geography also for women |
| 1886 | Contemporary history at the Faculty of Letters of Paris |
| 1894 | History degree and ‘Diplôme d’études supérieures d’histoire’ (Advanced Diploma in History) |
| 1900 | Revue de synthèse historique (Journal of Historical Synthesis) |
| 1901 | Société d’histoire moderne (Modern History Society) and Revue d’histoire moderne (Modern History Review) in Paris |
| 1905 | Musée de l’armée (Army Museum) in Paris |
| 1907 | Société des études robespierristes (Society for Robespierre Studies) in Paris and Annales de la Révolution française (Annals of the French Revolution) |
| 1910 | Association des professeurs d’histoire et géographie de l’enseignement public (APHG, Association of State Teachers of History and Geography) |
| 1927 | First national congress of French historians |
| 1929 | Les Annales d’histoire économique et sociale (Annals of Economic and Social History) |
| 1938 | Institut d’histoire et de recherche des textes (IHRT, Institute of History and Textual Research) in Paris |
| 1939 | Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS, National Centre for Scientific Research) |
| 1943 | Degree and ‘agrégation’ in geography |
| 1947 | Sixth section of the EPHE, becoming in 1975 the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) |
| 1962 | Maison des sciences de l’homme (House of the Sciences of Man) in Paris, the special structure within which the EHESS and the think-tanks of the CRNS would later function |
| 1976 | ‘Agrégations’ in history for men and women made the same |
| 1978 | Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (IHMC, Institute of Modern and Contemporary History) and Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP, Institute of the History of the Present) at the CNRS |
| 1979 | Pénélope. Pour l’histoire des femmes (Penelope: Women’s History) |
| 1984 | ‘Thèse nouveau régime’ (new style thesis) and ‘Habilitation à diriger des recherches’ (HDR, Attestation of fitness to undertake research). Reform of university statutes. ‘Professeurs agrégés détachés dans l’enseignement supérieur’ (PRAG) |
Bibliography
(References are included up to 2009)
