Patrice Higonnet

Higonnet is Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard. He has published on a variety of French themes ranging from seventeenth- and twenty-first-century art, eighteenth-century diplomacy, nineteenth-century French deputies, American nationalism, French immigrants to America, French rural life, and the Vichy years (1940–1944). Higonnet’s book Class, Ideology, and the Rights of Nobles (1981) is a study of Jacobin politics during the French Revolution. Sister Republics (1988) compares the French and American revolutions. Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins in the French Revolution (1998) considers the genesis and evolution of Jacobinism during the French revolution. Paris: Capital of the World (2002) described the history and myths of the French capital from 1750–1940. Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism American History appeared in 2007. The publication date of La Mort de Mique, le destin tragique du premier architecte de Marie Antoinette, has been postponed, as his French publisher has gone bankrupt. He is working on The Sleep of Reason which deals with the origins of the Terror of 1793–1794.