Jérémie Foa, historian and amU fellow on research leave at Iméra in 2024-2025, will be presenting his latest book at the Librairie Maupetit on September 27, 2025.
Saturday September 27th at 4pm
Jérémie Foa will be taking part in the Rencontres de la Librairie Maupetit on Saturday September 27th from 4pm, where he will be presenting his latest book Tous ceux qui tombent : Visages du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy.
Late August 1572. In Paris, notaries were drawing up death inventories, registering deeds and settling inheritances. With meticulous attention to detail, they transcribed ordinary lives in the midst of a colossal massacre. But they also provide names, addresses and links.
Drawing on these archives, Jérémie Foa weaves a microhistory of Saint Bartholomew’s Day, concerned with naming the anonymous, the obscure people thrown into the river or mixed up in the pit, forever swallowed up.
The meeting will be moderated by Brian Sandberg, Senior Fellow at Iméra in 2025-2026, whose work focuses on the French crusades within the Mediterranean world in the early modern era (1500-1650).
Together, Jérémie Foa and Brian Sandberg are conducting collaborative research on Climate Change and Religious Conflict in Europe, 1550-1650. This research project will study the links between climate change, environmental disasters and religious conflict during the period of the European Wars of Religion and the Little Ice Age.
Coming to the Maupetit bookshop
- Librairie Maupetit, 142 La Canebière, 13001 Marseille.
- by metro: Réformés Canebière stop.
- by tram: T2 Réformés Canebière stop.
