Matthieu BREJON DE LAVERGNÉE

Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée is Associate Professor in Modern History at Sorbonne Université, and a member of the Centre de recherches en histoire du xix^e siècle. He is working on a transnational history of charity, which has led him to cut across social history, religious history, and women’s and gender history. He is currently preparing a Histoire des Filles de la Charité over the longue durée, of which the first volume has already been published (La rue pour cloître, xvii^e-xviii^e siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2011), and the second volume is forthcoming (Le temps des cornettes, xix^e-xx^e siècle (Paris: Fayard, forthcoming). He has also co-edited, with Magali Della Sudda, Genre et christianisme. Plaidoyers pour une histoire croisée (Paris: Beauchesne, 2015).