We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors.
We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories to …

This paper describes an innovative solution for geovisualization of the demographic and
administrative history of French municipalities, named" communes" in French. This solution …

This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Catholic Church property that
occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in …

This article describes the construction and content of an atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien
Régime France: bailliages. Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Régime's …

This article describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database.
This database contains individual-level data on the universe of the 1.3 million French …

The development of the French railway network was mostly planned in a centralized
manner. Despite the multiplication of travel opportunities, the local impact on the …

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic
France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative …

The origins of voter preferences about the vertical distribution of political power in federal
systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher …

Accessibility is frequently used in transportation planning to measure the efficiency of new
infrastructure in terms of travel time and population served. In this article, the authors apply …

This article presents an innovative study of the relationship between railway accessibility
and population change in France from 1860 to 1930. Using a large, geo-historical database …