Jean-Louis Quantin was born on 20 August 1967 and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (D.Phil 1994; Habilitation 2003). He was a junior research fellow at the Maison Française in Oxford in 1993-1995, and was subsequently lecturer in early modern history at the University of Versailles in 1995-2002. Since 2002 he is professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), Faculty of Historical and philological sciences, where he holds the chair of history of early modern scholarship, which was created for him. He was a Yates fellow at the Warburg Institute and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published extensively on early modern religious history. He is a fellow of the Accademia di San Carlo in Milan.

Quantin tells this complex, ironic story with cosmopolitan learning, a sharp, ironic wit, and a fine English style. A TLS Book of the Year.

• INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION

Jean-Louis Quantin was born on 20 August 1967 and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (D.Phil 1994; Habilitation 2003). He was a junior research fellow at the Maison Française in Oxford in 1993-1995, and was subsequently lecturer in early modern history at the University of Versailles in 1995-2002. Since 2002 he is professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), Faculty of Historical and philological sciences, where he holds the chair of history of early modern scholarship, which was created for him. He was a Yates fellow at the Warburg Institute and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published extensively on early modern religious history. He is a fellow of the Accademia di San Carlo in Milan.

Quantin tells this complex, ironic story with cosmopolitan learning, a sharp, ironic wit, and a fine English style. A TLS Book of the Year.

• INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION

Jean-Louis Quantin was born on 20 August 1967 and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (D.Phil 1994; Habilitation 2003). He was a junior research fellow at the Maison Française in Oxford in 1993-1995, and was subsequently lecturer in early modern history at the University of Versailles in 1995-2002. Since 2002 he is professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), Faculty of Historical and philological sciences, where he holds the chair of history of early modern scholarship, which was created for him. He was a Yates fellow at the Warburg Institute and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published extensively on early modern religious history. He is a fellow of the Accademia di San Carlo in Milan.

Quantin tells this complex, ironic story with cosmopolitan learning, a sharp, ironic wit, and a fine English style. A TLS Book of the Year.

• INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION