Revue des questions historiques

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The Review of Historical Questions (French: Revue des questions historiques) was a learned journal established on July 1866 by the Marquis Gaston du Fresne de Beaucourt and published by Victor Palmé. Devoted to historical research related in particular to modern Europe, this journal was published until 1939.

History

From 1866 on, royalists historians fought around the camp of academic history where they confronted republican historians. Scholarly history remained largely in the hands of the clergy and notables, who looked to the past for the roots of French traditions, families, parishes, towns, dioceses, and professions. The Marquis Gaston de Beaucourt and the Count of Mas Latrie co-founded the Revue des questions historiques with a core of young legitimist historians. This group of chartists and scholars gave themselves the scientific, political and religious task of reacting against the dulling of Catholic history and of uniting men of science on the ground of a common faith. Faced with the official historians, these scholars focused their work on subjects such as Étienne Marcel, Philip Augustus, the Fronde, Feudalism, the Inquisition and the revolutionary period. The journal thus renewed religious history and effectively revised official history by being innovative.

The most advanced procedures for the analysis and study of historical facts and documents, the critical method, left the closed world of the School of Charters to reach the general public. The Revue des questions historiques was the first historical journal with a scientific methodological stance published in France. The journal was composed of five scholarly articles of about fifty pages responding to the official history on: History of France, Ecclesiastical History, Literary History, History of Institutions, Foreign History, Exegesis, Greek and Roman History, Archaeology, Apologetics. The RQH also kept abreast of the movement of historical science on the international level while chronicling all the facts and projects illustrating its progress. The RQH also reviewed historical works published in regional periodicals and offered a Bibliographical Bulletin of 30 reviews of historical works published in France and abroad. The journal, thanks to its network of researchers, correspondents, 600 subscribers and readers gathered around the Bibliographical Society, counterbalanced the official historiography of the French Empire.

In seventy-three years of publication, the magazine has had four directors: Gaston de Beaucourt (1866–1902), Paul Allard (1902–1914), Roger Lambelin (1922–1929) who saved it from bankruptcy in 1922, and Jean Baudry (1933–1939).

Legacy

In 1875 the RQH announced that it had "conquered such a high rank in the scholarly world, and obtained such a success, that our adversaries will incessantly publish a historical review whose form will be absolutely similar to ours".[1] That was exactly the case of the Revue historique, founded by Gabriel Monod and Gustave Fagniez in 1876.

In 1973 Victor Nguyen was inspired by the RQH experience to create the history magazine Anthinéa.

Notable contributors

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Notes

  1. ↑ L'Épinois, Henri de (1875). "Les Luttes Intellectuelles et la Société Bibliographique," Bulletin de la Société Bibliographique, Vol. VI, No. 9/10, p. 193.

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