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Revised Bylaws for the SFHS

The Executive Committee of the Society for French Historical Studies has approved revised bylaws for the Society, and they can be found at the Society's Web site: http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/sfhs.

Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting

To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the Society for French Historical Studies will hold its annual meeting in Paris for the first time in the Society's history. The dates are 17–20 June 2004. The meeting will be sponsored by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and New York University and will be hosted by the Biblioth�que Nationale de France (BNF) at its Tolbiac site. The invited speakers include Arlette Farge, Jean-No�l Jeanneney, and Jacques Revel, and there will be presentations from the BNF and the Archives Nationales concerning new collections and electronic access. Behind-the-scenes tours of the BNF are planned, along with a reception at the H�tel de Ville and a banquet cruise on the Seine.

In these dicult times for Franco-American relations, we hope that the Society can play a part in the ongoing, individual and institutional cooperation that has characterized those relations through thick and thin. We expect a large turnout and urge you to begin making plans now. There will be no single conference hotel, but the conference will have its own Web page, which will provide information on housing possibilities and will display updated meeting information. It will be found on the Web site of the Institute of French Studies at New York University:

http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/frenchstudies/sfhs.

All American participants must be members of the Society. Nonmembers can join by way of the Duke University PressWeb page (

http://www.dukeupress.edu; click on "How to Order/Subscribe") or by writing to Duke University Press, Journals Fulfillment, Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660.

For more information please contact either of the Society's copresidents for 2004, Edward Berenson at New York University (

berenson.sfhs@nyu.edu) or Nancy L. Green at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (green.sfhs@ehess.fr).

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