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HDR lecturer in modern history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the IHMC (UMR 8066 CNRS-ENS-Paris 1), specializes in the history of 18th-century France and the Revolution.
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The Logistics of Knowledge
Information Overload and Paper Technologies in the 18th Century
- By Vincent Denis
- and Pierre-Yves Lacour
In Genèses (2016/1 No 102)
Police and Identification in Enlightenment France
- By Vincent Denis
- and Vincent Milliot
In Genèses (2004/1 No 54)
The History of Policing after Foucault. A Historiographical Sketch
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2013/4 No 60-4/4 bis)
How to Police a Free People? The Paris Fédération Festival and the Invention of a New Form of Crowd Control (May-July 1790).
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2023/4 No 70-4)
Police and Society in France from the Old Regime to the Revolution
In Annales hist. de la Rév française (2018/3 No 393)
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Articles
Laurent CUVELIER. La Ville captivée. Affichage et publicité au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, Flammarion, Coll. “Le présent de l’histoire”, 2024, 366 p., ISBN 978-2-08-046403-3, €24.90.
In Annales hist. de la Rév française (2025/4 n° 422)
Daniel ROCHE, Pascal BASTIEN, Frédéric CHARBONNEAU, Vincent MILLIOT, Philippe MINARD, Michel PORRET (eds.). Les Lumières minuscules d'un vitrier parisien : souvenirs, chansons et autres textes (1757-1802) de Jacques-Louis Ménétra. Geneva, Georg, 2023, 456 pages, ISBN 978-2825713082, €25.
In Annales hist. de la Rév française (2024/4 n° 418)
Book Review. Lisa Jane Graham. If the King Only Knew: Seditious Speech in the Reign of Louis XV, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press , 2000, 324 p.
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2024/1 79th Year)
How to Police a Free People? The Paris Fédération Festival and the Invention of a New Form of Crowd Control (May-July 1790).
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2023/4 No 70-4)
Antoine RENGLET, Polices, villes et sécurité sous la Révolution et l’Empire. L’ordre public urbain dans l’espace belge, 1780-1814, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021, 320 pp., ISBN 978-2-7535-8183-8
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2022/4 No 69-4)
Police and Society in France from the Old Regime to the Revolution
In Annales hist. de la Rév française (2018/3 No 393)
The Logistics of Knowledge
Information Overload and Paper Technologies in the 18th Century
- By Vincent Denis
- and Pierre-Yves Lacour
In Genèses (2016/1 No 102)
The History of Policing after Foucault. A Historiographical Sketch
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2013/4 No 60-4/4 bis)
The Purge of the Parisian Police and the Tragic Origins of the Personal File under the Restoration
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2012/1 No 59-1)
Imposters and police in the century of the Enlightenment
In Politix (2006/2 No 74)
The Signature, Identification, and Social Control
In Hypothèses (2006/1 9)
Police and Identification in Enlightenment France
- By Vincent Denis
- and Vincent Milliot
In Genèses (2004/1 No 54)
Writing Descriptions of Suspects
Challenges from Marc René d'Argenson to Eugène François Vidocq
In Hypothèses (2003/1 6)