Revue des questions historiques

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Revue des questions historiques
DisciplineHistory
LanguageFrench
Publication details
History1866–1939
Publisher
Victor Palmé (France)
FrequencyQuarterly
Yes
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rev. Quest. Hist.
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The Revue des questions historiques (Review of Historical Questions, RQH) was the first scholarly journal published in France or the French language[1] and was the first French historical journal to systematically employ the new German methods of historic research.[2]

Foundation

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An offshoot of the Revue du monde catholique,[3] the historical journal was established in July 1866 by the Marquis Gaston du Fresne de Beaucourt[4] and published by Victor Palmé, and with an early editorial team of former students from the École des Chartes.[5] It was a conservative and ultramontane journal,[6] a part of a wider French Catholic intellectual movement in the late nineteenth century,[7] part of an interlocking network of Catholic oriented scholarly journals.[8] Although it has been placed in the context of a "Catholic reconquista" of French culture[9] and had a Catholic ethos it was based on the careful German historical methods of Historische Zeitschrift[1] with a commitment to careful study of primary sources.[5]

The rival Revue historique

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In reaction Gabriel Monod set up Revue historique a decade later,[10] specifically naming RQH in the first issue,[11] and copying its format, structure and volume.[12] There was an almost total lack of crossover of writers between the two journals,[6] although the founder of Revue historique, Gustave Charles Fagniez did eventually write for the older journal after resigning from the journal he helped found due to its anti-clerical stances.[13] The Revue historique has been seen by some historians as being particularly republican and Protestant in its early years in reaction.[14][6]

Influence

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In 1867[15] the Revue made public the documents of the Roman inquisition on the trials of Galileo.[16]

Historian Victor Nguyen has shown[17] that the counter-revolutionary ideas of the young Charles Maurras were influenced in part by the Revue's article Le procès de la révolution française.[18]

Twentieth Century

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Later editors included Paul Allard[19] and Jean Guiraud.[20]

Publication was suspended in 1915 but it was relaunched in 1922[21] by the Action Française journalist and politician Roger Lambelin[22] and was published until 1939.[1] During the twentieth century it gradually changed from its original aristocratic and grassroots legitimism to being an intellectual journal for the activist and Orleanist Action Française.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Larcher 1997.
  2. ^ Prévost 1992.
  3. ^ Noronha-DiVanna 2010, p. 107.
  4. ^ "DU FRESNE DE BEAUCOURT Gaston Louis Emmanuel , marquis dit Gaston de Beaucourt". Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. l’École nationale des chartes.
  5. ^ a b Julia 2009, pp. Para 21.
  6. ^ a b c Lukacs 1977.
  7. ^ Audren 2008.
  8. ^ Cabanel 1994, pp. 69, note 91.
  9. ^ den Boer 2011, pp. 193=195.
  10. ^ Noronha-DiVanna 2010, p. 111.
  11. ^ Mucchielli 1995, p. 60.
  12. ^ Carbonell 1976, p. 332.
  13. ^ Carbonell 1976, p. 348.
  14. ^ Guilbaud 2014.
  15. ^ de l’Épinois 1867.
  16. ^ Clerke 1911.
  17. ^ See Nguyen 1991, p. 371, as cited in Offenstadt 2014, para 19
  18. ^ Mazel 1886.
  19. ^ Healy 1913.
  20. ^ Grondeux 2014.
  21. ^ L. (October 1922). "Short Notices". The English Historical Review. 37 (148): 628a. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXXVII.CXLVIII.628-a. Retrieved 2025-06-07.
  22. ^ de Villiers 1929.
  23. ^ Wilson 1969, pp. 335–336.

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