Becoming scholars. Theses and doctorats ès lettres in the 19th century

About the exhibition

This exhibition was produced as part of the "ès lettres" project, dedicated to the study of doctoral theses in humanities defended in France in the nineteenth century. This project is supported by the Groupement d’intérêt scientifique CollEx-Persée. It is carried out in collaboration with many partners, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, to whom we are grateful for digitizing a large number of theses from the BIS collections, which are highlighted in this exhibition.

We would also like to thank the Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France and the Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes, which have kindly digitized letters from their collections free of charge for this exhibition.

Scientific curator: Pierre Verschueren (University of Franche-Comté, Centre Lucien Febvre).

Coordination: Ève Givois (BIS).

Texts: Pierre Verschueren, Ève Givois.

Translation: Pierre Verschueren.

Iconographic research: Pierre Verschueren, Ève Givois, Laurie Aoustet, Cécile Obligi.

Technical production: Gilles Clément (BIS).

Acknowledgment: thanks to Jean-Pierre Herubel for his invaluable help in revising this translation.