Aurelien LIGNEREUX
University Professor
Contemporary History
Laboratory(ies): LUHCIE
Keywords
- History of expatriation
- History of civil servants
- Police
Responsibilities
- Co-holder of the Chair in History, Gendarmerie, Security & Territory (National Gendarmerie Research Center)
Current Projects
"The Children of the Century." The warrior matrix of a generation (1792-1815)
The project aims to explore the wars of the Revolution and the Empire from a child's perspective, both in terms of daily life—including changes in children's games—and in the Education patriotic ideals.
Publications
Imperial and Imperialized Civil Servants: A Social History of the Imperial State
Aurélien Lignereux
Doina Pasca Harsanyi and Alexander Mikaberidze (eds.). *Napoleonic Governance and the Integration of Europe: Managing the Empire, Winning the Peace?*, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, *War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850*, 978-3-031-96466-4
Revolutionary Police Forces: How the Revolution Is Shaping the Police
Aurélien Lignereux
Félix Breteau, Anne de Mathan, Thomas Hippler, Vincent Milliot, and Corentin Sire (eds.). Police and Revolutions in Western Europe: From the 1780s to the End of the 20th Century, Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 173–178, 2025
Contemporary Violence
Aurélien Lignereux
Edited by Eric Anceau. *A New History of France*, Passés Composés, pp. 243–51, 2025
A Force of Circumstance? The Mobile Gendarmerie in 19th-Century France
Aurélien Lignereux
Édouard Ebel, Laurent López, Jean-Noël Luc (eds.). Mobile Gendarmerie and Law Enforcement, Sorbonne University Press, pp. 61–72, 2025
France: Revolution and Empire, 1788–1815
Aurélien Lignereux
Armand Colin, 568 pp., 2024, Portail, 9782200626150
Thesis supervision
Nicolas NURDIN
Being a gendarme during the Restoration: the example of Sergeant Bonne.
Alban GIRAULT
Dealing with Floods in France: Perceptions and Public Policy (1830s–1910)
Cyprien GANDILLON
The National Gendarmerie in the Defense of French Territory During the Cold War, 1950s–1990s.
Pierre ARNOUX
A Risorgimento in the Shadows: Intelligence in Austrian-Ruled Italy (1815–1866)
Pascal GATEAU
Reflections on Counterinsurgency on National Territory: The Evolution of the Military Response to the Vendée Uprisings from 1792 to 1832