Julian Swann
Professor
Dept of History, Classics and Archaeology
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Julian Swann is Pro-Vice Master for Research and professor of Early Modern History and has taught at Birkbeck since 1989. He is interested in all aspects of French history, but is currently working on a major biography of Louis XV. He has been the editor of the European History Quarterly since 2011.
Research Interest
Politics, History
Publications
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'Parlement, politics and the parti janséniste: the Grand Conseil affair, 1755-1756', French History, no. 4 (1992), pp. 435-61
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'Power and provincial politics in eighteenth-century France: the Varenne affair', French Historical Studies (1998), pp. 441-74
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‘Disgrace without dishonour: the political exile of French magistrates in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present (2007), 195: pp. 87-126
