I’m a first-year PhD student, interested in a comparative political and legal history of Early modern Europe and the Atlantic, with a focus on 18th century revolutions. My prospective research aims to explore the way the Revolutionary period shifted from a rule of monarchs to a rule of laws, by working on chronopolitics and communication history of 18th century parliamentary systems.

I’m particularly interested in an history of speed as a political and rhetoric tool in the revolutionary era (1770-1820) and its influence on new perceptions of sovereignty. Using archival and computational methods, I seek to confront the debates on the acceleration of times with material history of communications, focusing on the messengers of the political wills (postmasters, army messengers, news) in parliamentary systems.

I come from Aix-en-Provence, southern France. I hold a B.A. and an M.A. in History from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an M.A. in Digital & Computational Humanities from Ecole nationale des chartes (Université PSL). Before coming to Princeton, I was a secondary school history teacher (“Professeur agrégé”) in Vitry-sur-Seine, a priority education suburb of Paris.