The demoiselles of the Ariege, 1829-1831 -- The Norman fires of 1830 : incendiaries and fear in rural France -- Incident at the statue of the Virgin Mary : the conflict of old and new in nineteenth-century Limoges -- The language of social stigmatization and urban space in nineteenth-century France -- On the loose : the impact of rumors and mouchards in the Ardeche during the Second Republic -- Some observations on the transition to the Euro in France -- I went up to Amiens today : a tribute to Charles Tilly