Société d'étude du XVIIe siècle


The Société d'étude du XVIIe is a French learned society established in Paris in 1948 along the status of an in order to bring together specialists of this period and to develop studies on this century.

The society

The society was established in 1948 by Georges Mongrédien, Monseigneur Marius-Henri Guervin and E. Houdart de La Motte.

List of presidents

Each year since 1984 the Society bestowes a prize for the most significant work of the previous year, covering the seventeenth and which may be an audiovisual work.
Four times a year since 1949, the Society publishes the journal XVIIe, the main scientific journal on the 17th century, in an interdisciplinary setting. Since 2001, summaries, abstracts and articles have been available online.
It is considered a review of rank A by the ERIH.