Jeanne Bouché Locquin (1880-1971) was a French art historian with interests that included, among other topics, Spanish art. The Fonds Jean Locquin hosted at the French National Archives, contains a section including agendas, correspondence, lecture notes, and various documents belonging to the historian. This study aims to reconstruct her prolonged stay in Spain in 1934, during which she maintained a strong connection with the Casa de Velázquez—the funding of which had been politically supported by her husband—as well as with members of the French cultural and diplomatic elites in Madrid. This serves to illustrate the role and position occupied by women in the emergence of Art History and Hispanism in France. This article examines her fieldwork both in the Spanish capital and during her trips across the Iberian Peninsula that year, revealing her relationships with individuals associated with the Institut Français de Madrid or the Casa de Velázquez, such as Paul Guinard, Maurice Legendre and Henri Terrasse.
In 1974, Ignacio Olagüe bequeathed his entire archive and library to the Casa de Velázquez. Although little is known about his links with the Casa de Velázquez, it is telling that his most important work was first published in France, thanks to the support of eminent figures in Parisian academic circles. The collection of rare and valuable books assembled by the bibliophile is of scientific and heritage interest both as regards the network of French university libraries and as regards the influence of the Casa de Velázquez in Spain.
This article explores the study of frenzied and furious madness in Renaissance Navarre. Starting with an initial approach that presents how medical theories regarding mental illnesses evolved since the 15th century, a series of cases will be presented where we will be able to observe the scarce real application of these theoretical postulates. The study thus proposes a journey through the complicated relationships generated between individuals with aggressive disorders and the people around them, leading to a case study where the reaction of Navarrese society towards problematic patients can be observed.
This essay examines the renewed interest of Italian historiography in popular devotions, with particular attention to their political uses in the contemporary era. Building on studies that have highlighted the “power of devotions” and their instrumentalization within a broader project of Christian reconquest of society, the article investigates a dimension that has thus far received limited scholarly attention: the relationship between devotional practices and the world of labour in postwar Italy. Through an analysis of the Church’s social doctrine and the promotion of figures such as Saint Joseph the Worker, the Virgin Worker, and Jesus the Divine Worker, the study highlights the process by which labour was resemanticized as expiation and as a means of restoring social order, in an anti-socialist and anti-conflictual key. Focusing on the first republican decade, the essay integrates the existing historiography with previously unpublished sources from the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, paying particular attention to internal debates within the Vatican hierarchy and to the adoption of devotional liturgy and iconography as instruments of social control within working-class environments.
Following the “search for the lost library”, spearheaded by the director of the EHEH, Yves Renouard, and the reinstallation in 1959 of a “new’ collection in the reconstructed Moncloa Palace, the following twenty-five years marked a pivotal period in the development of the Casa de Velázquez library. It was now placed under the responsibility of curators, assisted by other documentation professionals, who oversaw the expansion, diversification and organisation of the collections, as well as the fitting out of the premises for the preservation of documents and the comfort of its readers. However, the readership still consisted largely of researchers directly linked to the institution or from the community of French Hispanists, which attests to the still limited influence of the “great library of French scholarship and science in Spain”.
Between the ideal of public education formulated by Condorcet in 1792 at the Convention Nationale and the worldwide consecration of lifelong education through the publication in 1973 of the UNESCO Report on the Development of Education, better known as the «Faure Report», there is a long and prolonged history of popular educational movements and actions. As part of this long genealogy of projects committed to pedagogical experimentation, the Second World War gave birth to two paradigmatic pedagogical experiments: the École de Cadres d’Uriage and the Peuple et Culture movement. Based on the analysis of their written production, as well as the existing historiographical literature and the documentation located in the departmental archives of Isère, this article aims to deepen the genealogical knowledge of the emergence of popular education in France, as well as to give an account of the role played by Christianity of Maritainian and Mounierist inspiration in the subsequent development of popular education movements and projects.
