Benoît Collas – Histoire parisienne

Book & Publications

My book L’Invention des cafés parisiens was published by Parigramme in 2023:

Research dissertation pending publication: Le Monde retrouvé des bouillons parisiens. La démocratisation du restaurant au siècle de la modernité (1828–1914), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (under the supervision of Dominique Kalifa, then Vincent Robert), 2021.
Awarded the Jean Maitron Prize in 2021 and the First Prize of the Université du Val-de-Marne in 2022.

L’Éléphant, a general knowledge magazine: contributed to the special issue on Paris (April 2024), with two thematic maps of the capital — “Atmospheres” and “Metamorphoses”.

Contributions to RetroNews.fr, the BnF’s historical press website: interviews with historians, especially on the release of new publications, and an article I authored on the origins of Parisian department stores.

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