Professor David Bell will discuss the French Revolution and what it means to the French today.
David Bell is a historian of the early modern Atlantic world, with a particular interest in the political culture of Enlightenment and revolutionary France. David Bell attended graduate school at Princeton, where he worked with Robert Darnton, and received his Ph.D. in 1991. From 1990 to 1996 David Bell taught at Yale and from 1996 to 2010 at Johns Hopkins, where he held the Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Humanities and served a term as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2010.
https://history.princeton.edu/people/david-bell
Date: Tuesday, April 15
Time : 7:30 pm
Price: 40 Euros per person
Venue: Member's apartment
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org