The French Club and the History Department present

Was the discovery of America a mistake?

Debates about America in France's académies in the 1780s

A lecture by professor of American History and civilization

Bertrand VAN RUYMBEKE

University of Paris VIII, co-founder of the Journal of Early American History

Dr. Bertrand Van Ruymbeke is professor of American history at the Université de Paris 8. He is specialized in pre-industrial America, focusing more specifically on the British colonies in North America, their relationships to the Empire and the way their population developed from a social and religious point of view. He is also interested in francophone migrations (Huguenots, Acadians and refugees from St-Domingue) towards colonial America and the United States.