Les Rendez-vous de l'Histoire

Full program for the 29th edition (October 7-11, 2026, theme: "Merchants"), as published by the organizers at rdv-histoire.com/programme: over 700 events including lectures, panel discussions, interviews, screenings, workshops, performances, a book fair, and exhibitions. The times listed below are those provided by the organizers; some sessions do not have a specific time (particularly educational activities reserved for school groups). Some sessions require booking at reservation.rdv-histoire.com.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• 10:30 — The World in a Suitcase: The Adventure of Trade Routes (Workshop) · Selommes • Médiathèque de Selommes
• 14:30 — Coding Snack: Create Your Own "Merchant's Route" Video Game (Digital Workshop) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Training Room
• 15:30 — The World in a Suitcase: The Adventure of Trade Routes (Workshop) · Selommes • Médiathèque de Selommes
• 18:00 — What Kind of Merchants for Tomorrow? (Panel Discussion) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 18:30 — L'Engloutie by Louise HÉMON (Awards) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 18:30 — Selling Ever More: Digital Tech and Planned Obsolescence (Panel Discussion) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 19:00 — Read Aloud: "IF THIS IS A MAN" by PRIMO LEVI (Performance) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Adult Section
• 20:45 — Le Gâteau du président by Hasan HADI (Awards) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• 09:00 — Chrono'Archives 41: Reconstruct the history of France using Loir-et-Cher archives (School Activities) · Blois • Departmental Archives
• 09:00 — From datafication to the monetization of our data by digital platforms (Workshop) · Blois • Atelier Canopé
• 09:00 — POT BOUILLE BY JULIEN DUVIVIER (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 09:00 — "The Flame of Equality" school competition - Powerful women in the colonial economy: the signares of Senegal (Round table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 09:00 — Chrono'Archives 41: Reconstruct the history of France using Loir-et-Cher archives (School Activities) · Blois • Departmental Archives
• 09:30 — The department store revolution (Lecture) · Blois • Departmental Council, Kleber-Loustau Room
• 09:30 — The big explanation (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 09:30 — Networks, inventors, or distributors: a history of game merchants (Round table) · Blois • Digital City, Main Hall
• 09:30 — Painting for the market: artists and collectors in the Dutch Golden Age (Lecture) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 09:30 — Prato, Avignon, Venice: merchants and trade networks in medieval Italy (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 10:00 — Studying contemporary merchant shipping using "live ship maps" (Digital Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 24 (computer lab)
• 10:00 — Tableware from the flames: the Renaissance of precious arts in Europe (Lecture) · Romorantin-Lanthenay • La Pyramide
• 10:00 — What jobs are behind our purchases? (Round table) · In schools
• 10:15 — Face to face: large-format photography, past and present (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 25
• 11:00 — The long history of maritime charts (Lecture) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 11:00 — Dream merchants: the history of video game journalism in France (Round table) · Blois • Digital City, Main Hall
• 11:00 — Facing the Nazi camps: what educational approach? (Round table) · Blois • Center for Resistance, Deportation and Memory
• 11:00 — Richard FAUGUET, nature of the work, nature as material (Round table) · Blois • Music Conservatory, Hector Berlioz Auditorium
• 11:00 — Merchants and markets in Blois, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century (Guided tour) · Blois Guided Tours (Departure from the Castle)
• 11:15 — From tulip mania (1636-1637) to current turbulence: anatomy of financial crises (Lecture) · Blois • Departmental Council, Chapter Room
• 11:15 — WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT STORE (1) BY JULIE BERTUCCELLI (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 11:30 — Roman trade routes: material and archaeological approaches (Lecture) · Blois • Departmental Council, Kleber-Loustau Room
• 11:30 — The Mastermind BY KELLY REICHART (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 12:30 — Slave trade merchant networks: a comparative approach (Round table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 12:45 — WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT STORE (2) BY JULIE BERTUCCELLI (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 13:15 — Bibracte and its merchants: archaeology in search of trade actors (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 13:30 — The Middle Ages in games: a unique way to engage with the past or just a sales pitch? (Round table) · Blois • Digital City, Main Hall
• 13:30 — Art dealers in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. Gender issues (Lecture) · Blois • Music Conservatory, Hector Berlioz Auditorium
• 14:00 — The Grapes of the Reich by Jean-Christophe KLOTZ (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Center for Resistance, Deportation and Memory
• 14:00 — The Price War by Anthony Dechaux (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 14:00 — Trade in France, French foreign trade: Insee's educational resources for teachers (Digital Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 24 (computer lab)
• 14:00 — Amateur filmmaking: the figure of Joseph Limousin, a merchant from Châteauroux (1930s-70s) (Cine-lectures) · Blois • Departmental Council, Chapter Room
• 14:00 — Photographing shops and shopkeepers during the First World War (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Wedding Hall
• 14:00 — Horse dealers and the war effort from the 18th century to the present day (Round table) · Blois • Royal Château of Blois, Salle Mansart
• 14:00 — Stakes and challenges of the commodification of attention (Workshop) · Blois • Atelier Canopé
• 14:00 — Finding female merchants in Paris in the records of the Central Notarial Archives (18th-19th centuries) (Workshop) · Blois • Departmental Archives
• 14:15 — Merchants and nobility in the late Middle Ages between the Rhône and the Alps (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, City Council Chamber
• 14:15 — Crafting a sensitive history of photographs (Round table) · Blois • Royal Château of Blois, Conference Room
• 14:15 — Female artists and art dealers: a special relationship? (Round table) · Blois • Departmental Council, Pierre de Ronsard Room
• 14:15 — Chrono'Archives 41: Reconstruct the history of France using Loir-et-Cher archives (School Activities) · Blois • Departmental Archives
• 14:30 — The port of Nantes and the slave trade (Lecture) · Blois • Departmental Council, Kleber-Loustau Room
• 14:30 — The keys to the economy (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 14:30 — Investigating small shopkeepers in the 1970s: a look back at a political sociology approach (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 14:30 — French people, French companies, and sovereignty in the age of information warfare (Round table) · Blois • Royal Château of Blois, Gaston d'Orléans Room
• 14:30 — How I turned around the Vatican's finances (Grand Interview) · Blois • City Hall, Malfray Room
• 14:50 — Representation of ancient trade systems in video games (Round table) · Blois • Digital City, Main Hall
• 14:50 — Dialogues on the Golden Age: contemporary imprints of a prosperous period (Meeting) · Blois • Art School, Room 1
• 15:00 — The rise of music and the rise of trade in the 18th century based on the frontal cortex's ability to build long-term strategies (Performance) · Blois • Music Conservatory, Hector Berlioz Auditorium
• 15:00 — If you want me to live, Lucie and Alfred Dreyfus (Show) · Blois • Magic House, Performance Hall
• 15:00 — Knowledge, flavors, and silks: Lyonnais, European, or global merchants? 16th century-1930s (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 15:30 — Gender and surrealism (Workshop) · Blois • Art School, Room 1
• 15:30 — Nature, Cezanne, and Debussy in echo (Workshop) · Blois • Art School, Room 2
• 15:30 — Residency showcase "Arpentages - farms and systems" (Performance) · Blois • Espace Quinière
• 15:45 — Public statistics: data to anticipate, decide, and trade (Digital Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 24 (computer lab)
• 16:00 — Venice: from merchant power to political dominance (Lecture) · Blois • Royal Château of Blois, States General Room

• 16:00 — Illegal Trade: The Black Market (Lecture) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 16:00 — Wine in the French Navy from Richelieu to the Present Day (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 16:00 — Geopolitical Instability, Democratic Uncertainty, Digital Revolutions: Is the Merchant of Tomorrow Doomed? (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 16:00 — Closing Shop: Risks, Dangers, and Bankruptcies for Merchants in Antiquity (Greece, Rome, Ancient Orient) (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 16:00 — Strategies of the Modest: From Street Peddlers to Le Boncoin (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 16:00 — When Women Wrote History: Between Mesopotamia and Anatolia 4,000 Years Ago (Historical Café) · Blois • Ana M.
• 16:00 — The Commodification of Mental Health: An Interview with Mathieu Bellahsen (Interview) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 16:00 — General City Tour (Guided Tour) · Visites Guidées de Blois (Departure: Château)
• 16:10 — Video Games: The Art of a Cultural Industry (Round Table) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Grande salle
• 16:15 — Photographers' Investigations in Archives and Museums (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 16:15 — Media and Democracy: What Are the Stakes for Schools? (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des Conférences
• 16:15 — Teaching the History of Photography: Reading and Practice (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 23
• 16:30 — CINEMATIC NEWSREELS OF THE GREAT WAR: VISUAL AND COMMERCIAL CHALLENGES (Film-Lecture) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 2
• 16:30 — Public Collections and the Art Market Facing Provenance Issues (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 16:30 — The Trading Houses of Thessaloniki, or the Great Transformation in the Ottoman Balkans (Lecture) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment principal - Amphi Denis Papin
• 16:30 — Le Monde Cinema Round Table: Can 1939-1945 Biopics Escape Politics? (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 16:30 — Why and How to Film a Trial? (Round Table) · Blois • La Fabrique
• 16:45 — From the Front to the Rear: Merchants at the Heart of the Great War (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 70
• 17:00 — POUSSIÈRES D'EMPIRE BY HÉLÈNE LAM TRONG (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 17:30 — Houses of Correction: Young Rebels Behind Walls in the 20th Century (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 17:30 — Café Debate: GAFAM, Who Are the Merchants of the 21st Century? · Blois • Cité du numérique, Grande salle
• 17:45 — Merchants and Goods in Motion: Who Governs the Flows? (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 17:45 — From Global to Local: Where Do We Stand with Loire Trade? (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle du conseil municipal
• 18:00 — Seeing and Showing: Industrial Exhibitions as Devices for Representing Trade (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 18:00 — Did Fur Change the World? (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 18:00 — Merchant Princes and Nomadic Princes: Caravans for the State in Medieval Central Asia (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 18:15 — Our Daily Lives in Times of Economic and Societal Upheaval (Grand Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des Conférences
• 18:30 — THE FABULOUS STORY OF THE AMBROISE VOLLARD COLLECTION BY TANIA RAKHMANOVA (Screening & Discussion) · Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Salle Jean-Claude Deret
• 18:30 — Safely Arrived! Supplies, Goods, and Merchants in the Arsenals (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 18:30 — Inclusion or Refoundation? Neurodiversity Redefines Collective Work (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 18:30 — From Door-to-Door to the Click: The Metamorphosis of Commerce (Round Table) · Vendôme • Vendôme, 3e Volume du Minotaure
• 18:30 — Can You Succeed in Orléans? Merchant Wealth and Social Status Between Province and Paris in the 18th Century (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 18:30 — The Time of Harvest by Huo MENG (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 2
• 19:00 — Gesticulated Lecture: "There Are Things I Can't Stomach": From the Capitalist Regime to Food Sovereignty, by Marion Abguillerm (Performance) · Blois • Espace Quinière, Rosa Parks
• 19:00 — Sell, Self, Slay (Show) · Blois • Théâtre Nicolas Peskine
• 19:30 — The Siren's Counter: Music and Tales of Merchant Venice (Performance) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 20:00 — Five Devils (Notre Salut) by Emmanuel MARRE · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 21:15 — On Falling by Laura CARREIRA (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 2
• Merchants and Collectors at the Origin of the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of the Royal Château of Blois, from the 19th Century to the MNR (School Activities)
• Merchants and Markets in Blois, from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century (School Activities)
• On the Path of Memory: Dismantling the Mechanics of Denialism (School Activities) · In-school
• Tracing Our Ancestors (School Activities) · In-school
• Why Does the Little 'a' Look Like That? (School Activities) · In-school
• Marc Bloch: No to the Denial of History (School Activities) · In-school
• The Tenants of the Élysée (School Activities) · In-school
• The Crazy History of Oil (School Activities) · In-school
• Search and Find from 1900 to Today (School Activities) · In-school
• Chrono'Archives 41: Reconstruct the History of France with the Loir-et-Cher Archives (School Activities) · Blois • Archives départementales

Friday, October 9, 2026

• 06:30 — Les Matins, France Culture (Radio Show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 09:00 — Rebuilding after a mass massacre: the economic and social reconstruction of Oradour-sur-Glane after June 10, 1944 (Workshop) · Blois • Atelier Canopé
• 09:00 — Le Cours de l'histoire, France Culture (Radio Show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 09:00 — Black Box: Censored Archives of French History (Meeting) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 09:00 — Hamnet by Chloe ZHAO (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 09:00 — Black Box: Censored Archives of French History (Meeting) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 09:15 — L'Abandon by Vincent GARENQ (Screening and Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 09:45 — Copyright, Archives, and Documentary Film (Round Table) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 10:00 — Séries Noires à la Une | The Mafia: A Parallel Market System (Podcast Episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 10:00 — Opening Speeches followed by the Inaugural Lecture: Is Information Just Another Commodity? (Lecture) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 10:15 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 10:15 — Renaissance Table Arts (Lecture) · In school
• 10:30 — Dream Merchants or Need Merchants: Studying 1950s-60s Consumer Society Through Advertising (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 10:30 — Dramatic Reading: "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol, translated by André Markowicz, adapted and read by Jason Barrio (Performance) · Blois • Archives départementales
• 10:30 — Who Makes War? (Lecture) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 10:30 — Merchants and Rulers: Balancing Public Good and Private Interests in Venetian Power during the 15th and 16th Centuries (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 10:30 — What Jobs Are Behind Our Purchases? (Round Table) · In school
• 11:00 — Return to Nostalgia: An Anthropology of the Emotional Consequences of Migration (Paper) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Room 214
• 11:00 — Department Store Bosses (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 22
• 11:00 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 11:00 — Gallery Owners or Gallery Slaves? Women and the Art Market in the 20th Century (Lecture) · Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, L'Atelier
• 11:00 — Merchants and Markets in Blois: From the Middle Ages to the 19th Century (Guided Tour) · Visites Guidées de Blois (Departure from Chateau)
• 11:15 — The Port of Delos and Its Merchants in the 2nd-1st Centuries BC (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 11:15 — Tribute to Hélène Mouchard-Zay (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Criminal Courtroom
• 11:15 — Punishing Through Animals: Reflections on Roman Cruelty (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Wedding Hall
• 11:15 — "Truth(s)": How to Counter the Spread of Misinformation About the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre? (Workshop) · Blois • Atelier Canopé
• 11:15 — Spice, Gold, and Blood: Products and Spaces of the Colonial Slave Trade (17th-19th Centuries) (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 11:15 — "Women in Colonial Algeria, 1830-1962"; 2027 Theme for the National Competition on the History of Colonization and the Algerian War (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 25
• 11:30 — Is Sport a Commodity? Sport and Its Entrepreneurs (19th-20th Centuries) (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Amphi Denis Papin
• 11:30 — Is Foreign Trade Becoming a Combat Sport? (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Red Amphi
• 11:30 — Slum Landlords (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 11:30 — The Belly of the Navy: Supply Chains in the French Navy Since the Ancien Régime (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 11:30 — "From Prompt to Archive: Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI". Reverse Engineering History Workshop in English DNL - The Plantagenet Wine Trade (1154-1453) (Digital Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 24 (Computer Lab)
• 11:30 — History Professions Facing AI (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 11:30 — Memorializing History: Memorials, Historic Homes, and Other Sites of Memory (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 11:30 — GERMAINE KANOVA: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S COMMITMENT DURING THE WAR (1942-1946) (Film-Lecture) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 11:30 — André Breton and Nadja, Before the Myth: On Nadja's Letters to André Breton, 1926-1927 (Performance) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Performance Hall
• 11:30 — Geopolitics of the Energy Transition: Sovereignty Challenges and Metal Stakes (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Assize Courtroom
• 11:30 — What Democracy for a Sustainable Economy? (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 11:30 — DOCUMENTARY PRIZE 1 (Awards) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 11:30 — "The Legend of Napoleon and Saint Helena" (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Room
• 11:30 — The Neo-Reactionaries: Actors in the End of a World? (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 11:30 — Presence at a Distance: From Antiquity to Social Media (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 11:30 — An African History of Africa: "Africa, Memories of a Continent", RFI Radio Show (Radio Show) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 11:30 — Images, Dance, and the Commodification of the Body (Meeting) · Blois • Conservatoire de Musique, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 11:30 — A Utopia in the Desert (Interview) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Adult Section
• 11:30 — Gaming Lecture: Trading in Anno 1404: The Merchant, the City, and the Sea (Lecture) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 11:30 — France Inter Literary Show (Radio Show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 11:45 — To Be Continued... How "Story Merchants" Have Had Us Hooked Since Antiquity (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Chapter Room
• 11:45 — Abused Childhoods: Religious Violence, Institutional Coercion, and Forced Migration from the Middle Ages to Today (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Green Amphi
• 11:45 — Money Changers in the Temple! (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphi
• 11:45 — Pharaonic Egypt: A Civilization Through Its Masterpieces (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, City Council Room
• 11:45 — From Merchant-Prophet to Merchant-Kings: Another History of Islam? (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 11:45 — How Did the Rich Win the Class War? (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1

• 11:45 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 12:00 — Vesna by Rostislav KIRPICENKO (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 12:00 — Interview with the winner of the CIC Ouest Readers' Choice Award for historical fiction, followed by the award ceremony (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 12:15 — Selling, Excluding, Erasing: Jewish Art Dealers Facing Spoliation (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 12:15 — A Costume of Values: Contemporary Exchanges on Regional Dress (Presentation) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 12:30 — Exploring 18th-Century Atlantic Trade Through Narrative Mapping (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 12:30 — Profession: Producer(s)! (Film-Conference) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 13:30 — THE FABULOUS STORY OF THE AMBROISE VOLLARD COLLECTION by Tania RAKHMANOVA (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 13:30 — Merchant Echoes: Advertising and Pitching in the Era of Cylinders and 78 RPM Records (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 13:30 — From the Swahili Coast to Kilimanjaro: East African Histories and Geographies in the 19th Century (Round Table) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Adult Section
• 13:30 — The Nymph and the Witch | Artisans or Travelers: The Wives of Assyrian Merchants (Podcast Episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 13:45 — Caravan to the Future by Alissa DESCOTES-TOYOSAKI (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 14:00 — Why and How War? (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 14:00 — What About the Merchant Women? (Round Table) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 14:00 — From Le Bon Marché to Shein: Images of a Metamorphosis (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Assizes Courtroom
• 14:00 — Being a Sailor Facing New Geostrategic Challenges (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 14:00 — Counting, Changing, Exchanging: Merchants and Money-Handlers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 14:00 — Merchants and Travelers of Mesopotamia (Round Table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphi 2
• 14:00 — Archaeology: A History of Merchants? (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Amphi Denis Papin
• 14:00 — Maritime Trade: The Return of a Strategic Issue (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 14:00 — Alexis de Tocqueville, "The American" (Performance) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Theater
• 14:00 — Memory Tourism: Between Pedagogy and Commercial Practices (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 22
• 14:00 — Chivalry: An Object of Fantasy (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 14:00 — Humanities Publishing: Rediscovering the Golden Age? (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 14:00 — Electricity: A French Exception (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 14:00 — Allons-y voir! France Culture Radio Show (Radio Broadcast) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 14:00 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 14:00 — Guided Tour of the Exhibition: Watching TV. 25 Years of Public Television in the INA Photographic Archives, 1949-1974 (Guided Tour) · Blois • Le Capitole
• 14:15 — The Battle of the Holm Oaks: Investigating Ecocide in 17th-Century Spain (Interview) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Correctional Courtroom
• 14:15 — 1876-2026: 150 Years of the Revue historique (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 14:15 — Teaching Medieval Mediterranean Merchants: A Global Approach (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 14:15 — Merchants Through the Centuries: What Public Archives Reveal (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 14:15 — USA, The Conservative Revolution 1960-1980: The ARTE Documentary Lecture (Film-Conference) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 14:15 — In the Footsteps of Sahel and Sahara Merchants in the 19th Century (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 14:15 — AI: A Tremendous Growth Lever or a Major Risk for Employment? (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi rouge
• 14:15 — Narendra Modi's India (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 14:15 — Poulain: A Merchant Turned Industrialist (Lecture) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 14:30 — Clandestins by Jérôme PRIEUR (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 14:30 — Trading Health: Competing Expertise and Economic Logic, from Medicine to Genome (1920-1997) (Lecture) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 14:30 — Reading-Performance (Show) · Blois • Archives départementales
• 14:30 — The Business of Games and the Game of Business (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphi
• 14:30 — Ricordi: The Merchant World Through the Family Book of a Florentine at the Dawn of the 15th Century (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Room 4
• 14:30 — When the (New) World Was Merchant: Globalization and Colonial Societies in the Americas (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 25
• 14:30 — Teaching the Resistance Through Comics: The Example of Marc Bloch, the Historian-Soldier (Workshop) · Blois • Atelier Canopé
• 14:30 — The Merchant and the Affairs of Time in the City, 12th-18th Century (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, City Council Chamber
• 14:30 — From Wet Nurses to Milk Banks: The (De)commodification of Human Milk? 18th-21st Centuries (Interview) · Blois • INSA, Chocolaterie Building - Grand Amphi
• 14:30 — Paris: A Magnifying Mirror of French Inequalities? (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Hall
• 14:30 — How to Decide in the Age of AI? (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 14:30 — CARREFOUR DU MAGHREB, RFI SHOW: MAGHREBI JEWS, FUTURES AT STAKE (Radio Broadcast) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 14:30 — Portraits of France: Figures of Immigration (Lecture) · Blois • Espace Quinière, Rosa Parks
• 14:30 — France Empire: Facing Our Colonial History (Meeting) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 14:45 — Five Centuries of Trade Between France and Brazil (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 14:45 — Merchants in the Classroom: Economic History Between Scholarly Knowledge and Taught Knowledge (Round Table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphi 1
• 14:45 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 15:00 — En Passant Par là | History of Current Events, Current Events of History (Podcast Episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 15:15 — Le Fil de l'histoire, France Inter Radio Show (Radio Broadcast) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty

• 3:30 PM — In a society where everything is commodified—goods, images, emotions—can we trade our convictions? (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 3:30 PM — On the Road to the Loire (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 3:30 PM — Rimbaud, the Silent Odyssey. History at Nightfall (Lecture) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Espace Adultes
• 3:30 PM — Virtual Reality Experience 2026 (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 3:30 PM — Secret Agent by Kleber MENDOÇA FILHO (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 3
• 3:30 PM — Residency Showcase: "Surveying - Farms and Systems" (Performance) · Blois • Espace Quinière
• 3:45 PM — FILMING MERCHANTS IN COLONIAL INDOCHINA (1920-1954): OFFICIAL MILITARY AND AMATEUR PERSPECTIVES (Cine-lecture) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 3:45 PM — Aerostatic and Aeronautical History Through the Lens of Caricature (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 3:45 PM — Merchants and Women's Bodies. Between Commodification and Autonomy: Towards Real Emancipation? (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 70
• 3:45 PM — Taillevent, the First French Chef (Interview) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 3:45 PM — How to Teach Commerce and Trade in Vocational High Schools? (Round table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 22
• 4:00 PM — The Amphora (Lecture) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 4:00 PM — "Tell Me, Old Clothes Dealer": The Story of the Unlikely Friendship Between Édith Piaf and Jacques Bourgeat (Presentation) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Salle 214
• 4:00 PM — Coins and Merchants in the Greek World: A History That Isn't So Obvious (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 4:00 PM — Trading in Human Beings (Round table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 4:00 PM — Daniel Roche or the History of Commercial Practices in France in Light of His Archives Preserved at the National Archives (Lecture) · Blois • Archives départementales
• 4:00 PM — Inventing Oneself Through Writing. On the Correspondence of Petrarch (Performance) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Salle de spectacle
• 4:00 PM — In Struggle! Two Centuries of Social, Political, and Environmental Struggles in France (Round table) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment principal - Amphi Denis Papin
• 4:00 PM — Walkers and Merchants: Rethinking City Entrances (Round table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle des Assises
• 4:00 PM — The Plague and the Merchants (Lecture) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 4:00 PM — Daring Freedom: Rebels and Resisters Against Slavery (Grand Interview) · Blois • Préfecture, Salle de réception
• 4:00 PM — Art Dealers Under the Occupation (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 4:00 PM — Housing: An Impossible Commodity? (Round table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 4:00 PM — The March of the World. RFI Broadcast (Radio Show) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 4:00 PM — History of Genoa: The Breath of Global Capitalism (Historical Café) · Blois, France • Bar restaurant café Les Frères du Val
• 4:00 PM — General City Tour (Guided Tour) · Visites Guidées de Blois (Departure from the Château)
• 4:15 PM — When Documentaries Educate - with the "Au Contact Citoyens, Citoyennes" Collective (Cine-lecture) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 2
• 4:15 PM — Israel - Palestine, Cartographic Perspectives (Lecture) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 23
• 4:15 PM — A New History of the Present Time (Interview) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 4:15 PM — Who Controls the Seas, Controls Trade and the World? (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 4:15 PM — Virtual Reality Experience 2026 (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 4:15 PM — Tripoli, Corsair City (Interview) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 4:30 PM — Selling Information (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 4:30 PM — A Technocrat of Slavery: A New Look at Michel Bégon (Lecture) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment principal - Petit amphi
• 4:30 PM — Portraits and Trajectories of African Merchants (Middle Ages - Early 20th Century) (Round table) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment Chocolaterie - Grand amphi
• 4:30 PM — Emile (Show) · Blois • Conservatoire de Musique, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 4:30 PM — From Art Dealers to French Museum Collections: MNR Works in the Collections of the Château Royal de Blois (Workshop) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 4:30 PM — Women Merchants in Lyon from the Renaissance to Today: In the Footsteps of Natalie Zemon Davis (Round table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Salle 4
• 4:30 PM — Neo-mercantilism: Towards a New Global Trade Order? (Round table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi rouge
• 4:30 PM — Camus, Justice and Moderation (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle du conseil municipal
• 4:30 PM — What Perspectives for the Complicated Middle East? (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des Conférences
• 4:30 PM — France Culture Masterclass of Friday, October 9th (Radio Show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 4:30 PM — Presentation of the Institute for Geopolitical Advanced Studies (Igéa) (Lecture) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 25
• 4:30 PM — Games & Challenges Area: Data Merchants: What Is Your Digital Life Worth? (Digital Workshop) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Salle de formation
• 4:45 PM — The Mysteries of Merchant Profit in the Age of Revolutions (Round table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 5:00 PM — The Three Hortenses (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 5:00 PM — Virtual Reality Experience 2026 (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 5:00 PM — A History of Rites (Interview) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Espace Adultes
• 5:15 PM — Pastry Chefs at Work: Training, Practicing, Evolving (14th-21st Century) (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 5:15 PM — Filmed Trials: The Paradoxical Factory of a Historical-Memorial Image of French Justice (Presentation) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Salle 214
• 5:15 PM — From Merchant Justice to Economic Justice (Round table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 5:15 PM — Cinema: A Commodity Like No Other (Cine-lectures) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 5:30 PM — Is Christianity a Religion of Historians? (Lecture) · Blois • Cathédrale Saint-Louis
• 5:30 PM — A New Look at the Resistance. On the Publication of the Issue of *Le Mouvement Social* (Presses de Sciences Po) on "The Invisibles of the Resistance" (Round table) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 5:30 PM — My Video Game in 10 Minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 5:30 PM — Our Data Has a History: Understanding the Data Economy in 9th and 12th Grade HGGSP (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Salle 70
• 5:30 PM — Monetary Sovereignty: What Will the Euro of the Future Look Like? (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 5:30 PM — Feasts of Chambord (Round table) · Blois • Préfecture, Salle de réception

• 17:30 — Accents d'Europe. RFI broadcast (Radio show) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 17:30 — Amer Turkestan (Lecture) · Valencisse • Château du Guérinet D'Orchaise
• 17:30 — Inauguration of the Book Fair · Blois • Salon du livre
• 17:45 — “I’m about to become a negosiente”: Women in European maritime trade in the 18th century (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 17:45 — Do merchants make the Empire? Merchants and global dominance in the 19th century (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie site, Amphi 2
• 17:45 — The Artichoke: A cultural history (Interview) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Assize Court Room
• 17:45 — September 11th: Images, fiction, and museums (Round table) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 17:45 — The nation's forgers: How the far-right disfigures history (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 17:45 — Culture: What if it were the best investment? (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Chapter Room
• 17:45 — The Jewish merchant: History of a myth and multiple realities (Middle Ages - 20th century) (Round table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Wedding Hall
• 18:00 — From charisma to the dawn: The journal Sensibilités explores... and celebrates its 10th anniversary! (Round table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Municipal Council Chamber
• 18:00 — Declining city centers or changing retail? (Round table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Green Amphi
• 18:00 — In the footsteps of Sahelian and Saharan merchants in the 19th century (Lecture) · Blois • Hôpital de Blois, Multipurpose Room
• 18:00 — Being a merchant: Practices, cultures, and representations (Round table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 18:00 — Antisemitism: Between history and current events (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 18:00 — Hervé Pauchon, "Le marchant" (Meet the artist) · ALCV, Salle Beauce
• 18:00 — From clay tablets to the cloud: 5,000 years of invoicing (Round table) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 18:15 — Trading in sex: 19th-21st century (Round table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 18:15 — Reconfiguring the merchant world around the Rungis wholesale market: From the center to the suburbs (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 18:15 — Rivenzi | The arms trade (Interview) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Performance Hall
• 18:20 — Questions du soir, France Culture broadcast (Radio show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 18:30 — Caravan to the Future by Alissa DESCOTES-TOYOSAKI (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Maison de Bégon
• 18:30 — Great and small merchant dynasties (Round table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 18:30 — Book Fair opening speech followed by the Historical Novel Prize ceremony (Awards ceremony) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 18:30 — The European Union and consumer protection End - 20:00 | Duration - 1h 30m (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Room
• 18:30 — Dreyfus: The Republic's fight (Literary café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 18:45 — The Secret Sale of the Jews of Romania by Pierre GOETSCHEL (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 19:00 — The Europe of merchants: What next? (Lecture) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 19:00 — Cleopatra, Head of State? (Lecture) · Vineuil • Vineuil, Village Hall
• 19:00 — MEETING WITH CAROLE TRÉBOR (Meet the author) · Saint-Aignan • Bibliothèque de Saint-Aignan
• 19:15 — The Middle Ages in glory (Round table) · Valencisse • Château du Guérinet D'Orchaise
• 19:45 — A "New Perspectives" documentary in the cinema of independent Morocco (Film lecture) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 20:00 — Adolfo Kaminsky, the free forger by Gaspard WALLUT (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 20:00 — Sell, Self, Slay (Performance) · Blois • Théâtre Nicolas Peskine
• 20:30 — LA GRADIVA BY MARINE ATLAN (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 20:45 — Cobra Verde by Werner HERZOG (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 21:30 — Documentary Prize 2 (Awards) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 21:30 — Gaming lecture - Medieval trade in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Lecture) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• Merchants and collectors behind the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts at the Royal Château of Blois, from the 19th century to the MNR (School activities)
• Merchants and markets in Blois, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century (School activities)
• On the path of memory: Dismantling the mechanics of negationism (School activities) · In schools
• Tracing our ancestors (School activities) · In schools
• Why does the little 'a' look like that? (School activities) · In schools
• Marc Bloch, No to the denial of history (School activities) · In schools
• The tenants of the Élysée (School activities) · In schools
• The crazy history of oil (School activities) · In schools
• Seek and find from 1900 to the present day (School activities) · In schools
• CULTURAL EXCEPTION, THE BATTLE THAT SAVED FRENCH CINEMA BY MARIE-LAURENCE RINCÉ (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• 08:30 — Libé Breakfast 1 (Discussion) · Blois, France • Bar restaurant café Les Frères du Val
• 09:00 — Dream Merchants (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 09:00 — Teaching through sound, teaching through images: minutes that changed the course of history with the EHNE Encyclopedia (Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 09:00 — Trading your body (Cine-conferences) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 09:00 — The Shop (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 09:00 — Lineage and posterity of American independence (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 09:00 — The dark side of trade: smuggling, illicit dealings, and privateering in the modern era (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 09:00 — Two Prosecutors by Sergei LOZNITSA (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 09:15 — The cloud and the storm. Do markets and merchants love war? (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 09:15 — Oberkampf, from merchant to industrialist: when trade invented the modern world (Lecture) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 22
• 09:15 — From merchants of doubt to merchants of promises. Manufacturing uncertainty at the heart of the environmental backlash (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Amphi Denis Papin
• 09:15 — Powers of merchants, merchants and powers. United States, Mexico, Ottoman Empire 1776-1914 (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 09:15 — The pen, the heart, and the scales: practices, rationalities, and moralities of merchant writings (17th-18th centuries) (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 09:15 — The medieval Church in search of subject(s) (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 09:30 — Marco Polo, merchant-explorer (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 09:30 — Bad merchants: looting and trafficking with the past (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 09:30 — La Parte por el todo by Roberto PERSANO, Santiago NACIF and Juan Andrés MARTINEZ CANTO (Screening-Meeting) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 09:30 — The Fall. France, 1940 (Interview) · Blois • Préfecture, Reception Hall
• 09:30 — Virtue and know-how of Italian merchants. The legacy of the Middle Ages, between history and literature. (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 09:30 — Merchants in times of crisis (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Criminal Courtroom
• 09:30 — Gender in History | Businesswomen of the Ancien Régime (Podcast episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 09:30 — Genocides and crimes against humanity at the Paris Assizes: law and history (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphi
• 09:30 — Defending and attacking merchants. Legal, material, and spiritual dimensions of commercial security in Asia (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Room 4
• 09:30 — AI as an aid to gamifying a history lesson on merchants (Digital Workshop) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 24 (computer lab)
• 09:30 — AI in the era of neomercantilism (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 09:45 — Splendors and miseries of the French Navy (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment Chocolaterie - Grand Amphi
• 09:45 — Documentary Prize 3 (Awards) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 09:45 — The Commune, a cross-history: animals and men (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 09:45 — The Recluse of Saint-Flour (Interview) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 10:00 — Recovered past: when middle school students repair History - spoliation and restitution (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 25
• 10:00 — The Loire and the Merchants - the role of the Loire and its boatmen in economic activity (Round Table) · ALCV, Amphi Vert
• 10:00 — Grand Interview with Giuliano da Empoli (Grand Interview) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Performance Hall
• 10:00 — In the Mediterranean light: Grand interview with Chantal Thomas (Grand Interview) · Blois • Literary Café
• 10:00 — How have women enriched the world? (Grand Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Room
• 10:00 — Concordance des temps, France Culture broadcast (Radio show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 10:00 — The Douai Notebooks. Arthur Rimbaud (Meeting) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 10:00 — Interview with the winner of the "Historical Novel Prize" (Interview) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Adult Section
• 10:00 — The capitalist eye. From the commercial museum to the colonial museum (Historical Café) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 10:15 — Did merchants in Antiquity have a profession? (Communication) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Room 214
• 10:15 — A climatic history of the world (Interview) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Assize Courtroom
• 10:15 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 10:15 — I dreamed of prehistory (Youth Meetings) · Blois • Book Fair, Youth Area
• 10:30 — MEETING WITH CAROLE TRÉBOR (Meeting) · La Ville aux Clercs • Bibliothèque de La Ville-aux-Clercs
• 10:30 — Tour of the exhibition Watching TV. 25 years of public television in the photographic collection of the National Audiovisual Institute, 1949-1974 (Guided tour) · Blois • Le Capitole
• 10:45 — My video game in 10 minutes (Meeting) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 10:45 — CNRD 2026-2027 Competition - Foreigners in the Resistance (1940-1945) (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 23
• 11:00 — Trading territories and borders: activating and resolving conflicts (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 70
• 11:00 — The commodification of knowledge (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 11:00 — Discovering houses and objects of the past (Workshop) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Workshop
• 11:00 — The new Silk Roads, an instrument for exporting Chinese interests worldwide (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 11:00 — Merchants and ceramics: the Lyon fairs during the Renaissance (Round Table) · Blois • INSPÉ, Room 22
• 11:00 — Books: just another commodity? Concerns about our stories in the age of concentration (Round Table) · Blois • Préfecture, Reception Hall
• 11:00 — The Vikings beyond the myths (Interview) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 11:00 — Historical Dictation (Across the Blésois region) · Blois • Salle du Jeu de Paume
• 11:00 — Regulating Big Tech: how to fight the new masters of the world? (Round Table) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 11:00 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 11:00 — Affaires étrangères, France Culture broadcast (Radio show) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty

• 11:00 — Merchants and collectors behind the Fine Arts collections at the Château Royal de Blois, from the 19th century to the MNR (Guided Tour) · Guided Tours of Blois (Departure: Château)
• 11:00 — La Saga des siècles, RCF radio show recorded with a live audience: Merchants and suppliers of religious art (Radio Show) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Room 6
• 11:15 — Paix for Nina by Jeanne MAKSYMENKO-DOVHYCH (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 11:15 — Does God love merchants? (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 11:15 — Queens of France at the Château de Blois (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Book Fair, Youth Area
• 11:15 — Finding one's voice: women merchants in the public sphere (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 11:15 — Writing history, (de)scribing the world (Interview) · Blois • Town Hall, Wedding Hall
• 11:15 — The material culture of merchants: trade goods, personal items, and travel practices in the modern era (Round Table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphi 1
• 11:15 — African societies in the Middle Ages: A new history (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 11:15 — From the boutique to the department store: the customer's perspective (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Amphi Denis Papin
• 11:15 — Laurent Decaux: New light on the Middle Ages (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 11:30 — Storiavoce | Being a merchant in Florence at the end of the Middle Ages (Podcast Episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 11:30 — The justice of merchants, from the Middle Ages to the present day: the French case (Round Table) · Blois • Judicial Court, Criminal Courtroom
• 11:30 — Portraits of an era: photos from the Harcourt studio during the Occupation (Round Table) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 11:30 — China: another history of capitalism? (Round Table) · Blois • Town Hall, Salle Malfray
• 11:30 — From customer to consumer: the evolution of the merchant relationship at Casino (1898-1960) (Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Room 4
• 11:30 — Do merchants spark revolutions? (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphi
• 11:30 — How did Switzerland become rich? Merchants and goods from the 15th to the 20th century (Round Table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphi 2
• 11:30 — Jean Jaurès and the merchants (Round Table) · Blois • Music Conservatory, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 11:30 — Can we de-commodify society? (Round Table) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Performance Hall
• 11:30 — Inauguration of the exhibition "For a fraction of a second: The eventful life of Eadweard Muybridge," followed by the presentation of the Rendez-vous de l'histoire Comic Book Prize - Château de Cheverny (Award Ceremony) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Espace Julien-Angelier
• 11:30 — My video game in 10 minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 11:30 — The great massacre of the dogs of Constantinople (Literary Café) · Blois • Literary Café
• 11:30 — Is an equitable history of colonization possible? (Interview) · Blois • Town Hall, Municipal Council Chamber
• 11:30 — The Spanish Civil War at every scale (Interview) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 11:30 — Celebrating 200 years of photography, new perspectives (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Hall
• 11:30 — Facing Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping, what is Europe doing? (Round Table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Red Amphi
• 11:30 — Commodity-bodies: actors in human trafficking and slavery around the world (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 11:30 — Room unavailable · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Adult Area
• 11:30 — Commemorating an extraordinary trial: Mazan (Meet-up) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 11:45 — LA CHIMERA BY ALICE ROHRWACHER (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 11:45 — Prison and the merchant system in the 19th century: prison labor (Workshop) · Blois • Judicial Court, Assize Courtroom
• 11:45 — Paris-commerce: everything is for sale! · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 11:45 — 2026 Virtual reality experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 11:45 — The world to see - The photographic turning point of the 1867 World's Fair (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Chocolaterie Building - Grand Amphi
• 12:00 — Supplying American collections: the merchant strategies of Eugène Glaenzer (1847-1923) (Presentation) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 12:15 — My video game in 10 minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 13:30 — Benjamin Franklin, the Sage of Two Worlds (Lecture) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, University Library
• 13:45 — 13 novembre, nos vies en éclats by Valérie MANNS (Screening & Q&A) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 14:00 — The French economy under the Occupation: constraints, economic collaboration, black markets, and spoliation (Workshop) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 14:00 — Women merchants and traders in Europe and the colonies, 16th-19th century (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphi
• 14:00 — Pierre Landais, the forgotten captain of the American War of Independence (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 14:00 — Merchants, fraudsters, smugglers: the gray zones of Mediterranean trade (14th–20th century) (Half-day study session) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Room 4
• 14:00 — The Pan-American | Trade exchanges in the Americas (Podcast Episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 14:00 — "I": Grand Interview with Lilia Hassaine (Literary Café) · Blois • Literary Café
• 14:00 — 1966, the wonderful year of Antoine Compagnon (Interview) · Blois • Prefecture, Reception Hall
• 14:00 — A new history of Art (Round Table) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hemicyle
• 14:00 — Did merchants inspire composers? (Around the Blois region) · Blois • Music Conservatory, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 14:00 — The "hussar grocers" of the Republic: why must we reinvent merchant training? (Round Table) · Blois • Judicial Court, Assize Courtroom
• 14:00 — Merchants in Antiquity (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Hall
• 14:00 — The sea of merchants - A history in maps (Dual-speaker lecture) · Blois • Town Hall, Wedding Hall
• 14:00 — From musketeers to the abyss: a musical reading by Laure Grandbesançon (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Performance Hall
• 14:00 — 2026 Virtual reality experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Digital Agora
• 14:00 — APHG tips for the internal history-geography competitive exam (Half-day study session) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Amphi Denis Papin
• 14:00 — Environmental economics and attempts at resource regulation: the case of the Southern Islands (18th-20th centuries) (Dual-speaker lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart

• 14:00 — Merchants and Consuls in the Mediterranean World, 16th–19th Century: Circulation and Exchange (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 14:00 — The Kebab: Another History of Globalization (Lecture) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Espace Adultes
• 14:00 — Chinese Ink Painting Workshop: Exploring 'Yokai, le village sans nom' (Workshop) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Atelier
• 14:00 — Global Economy: Commodification or Gift? (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 14:00 — Real Estate Marketing: A World Aligned with Our Desires (Aux Quatre coins du blésois) · Tavers • Maison ligérienne de l'Image
• 14:00 — Women in the History of Science (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 14:00 — 80 Years of the CNC: Successes and Challenges of a Unique Public Film Policy (In-depth Interview) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 14:15 — Merchants vs. Soldiers? An Imagined Debate Between Keynes and Bainville (1920) (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 14:15 — Sanctuaries and the 'Souvenir' Trade in Antiquity (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle du conseil municipal
• 14:15 — Do Archives Have a History? Revisiting a Classic of Source History (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment Chocolaterie - Grand amphi
• 14:15 — Democracy Tested by the Market: Between Short-Termism and a Desirable Society (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 14:15 — This is a Hoax: The Far Right and the Politics of Fakes (Interview) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 14:15 — Jean-Paul Depretto: Writing the History of the Working Class in Russia (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert
• 14:30 — Merchants of the Fake: Networks and the Trade of Imitation Jewelry in 17th and 18th Century France (Presentation) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Salle 214
• 14:30 — Make Way for Merchant Women! Women in the Public Space in Antiquity (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 14:30 — Public Debt: Heritage of the Past, Challenge for the Future (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi rouge
• 14:30 — 9 Months Contract by Ketevan VASHAGASHVILI (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 3
• 14:30 — My Video Game in 10 Minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 14:30 — The Intimate Pantheon of Two Historians (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 14:30 — Gendarme and 'Merchant': An Unexpected Historical Dialogue (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 14:30 — The Mysteries of Blue Porcelain: When France Spied on Qing Dynasty China (Historical Café) · Blois • Fluxus Café Boutique
• 14:30 — Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry in France (19th–21st Century) (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 14:30 — France Culture Masterclass: Saturday, October 10th (Radio Broadcast) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 14:30 — Coding Snack: Create Your Own 'Merchant's Route' Video Game (Digital Workshop) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Salle de formation
• 14:30 — Lebanon: Surviving Under Bombardment (Meet-up) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 14:45 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 15:00 — La Rescapée (Meet-up) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 15:15 — Merchants of History (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 15:15 — My Video Game in 10 Minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 15:30 — From the Year 1000 to the Second Empire: Beaugency as a Hub of Trade and Exchange (Lecture) · Beaugency • Théâtre Le Puits-Manu, Beaugency
• 15:30 — Speed Bio: The Biography Marathon (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 15:30 — Dialogue Between a Prehistorian and a Novelist on the Figure of Neanderthal (Interview) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Espace Adultes
• 15:30 — Afghan Archaeology, Between Memory and Resilience: A Threatened Heritage, A Wounded Population (Round Table) · Blois • Conservatoire de Musique, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 15:30 — Blog Stories # Blog Archive (Round Table) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Grande salle
• 15:30 — In Search of the Stolen Piano (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 15:30 — Marianne and Clio: Jean-Noël Jeanneney's 1990s (Literary Café) · Blois • Préfecture, Salle de réception
• 15:30 — A History of Colonization Through Its 'Madmen': Tracing the Interned of the Empire (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 15:30 — 2026 Virtual Reality Experience (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 15:30 — The Beginnings of Barter (Workshop) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Atelier
• 15:45 — From the French Revolution to Sartre: The Political History of Intellectuals According to Michel Winock (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 16:00 — Trading in the Soviet Empire (1918-1991) (Round Table) · Blois • INSA, Bâtiment principal - Petit amphi
• 16:00 — What Can Cinema Do When History Fails? The Case of Lebanon (Presentation) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Salle 214
• 16:00 — PLANÉTARIUM BY RÉBECCA ZLOTOWSKI (Screening & Meet-up) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 16:00 — Filming and Archiving the War in Ukraine (Round Table) · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• 16:00 — From the Franc to the ECU: France and European Monetary Cooperation from Pompidou to Mitterrand (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle des Assises
• 16:00 — A Multidisciplinary Approach to History: Studying Medieval Moral Imagery (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 16:00 — Economy of Global Disorder: How Did Geopolitics Change Everything? (In-depth Interview) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Salle de spectacle
• 16:00 — My Video Game in 10 Minutes (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Agora numérique
• 16:00 — The Egyptian Expedition: Bonaparte and His Scholars in the Orient (Dual-Voice Lecture) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 16:00 — The Tragic Odyssey of the MC Ruby (Literary Café) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 16:00 — Trading Lives: The Question of Hostages in Wartime (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 16:00 — Heritage of Diplomacy (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 16:00 — Youth Historical Novel Prize Award Ceremony (Award Ceremony) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 16:00 — The Investigations of Nicolas Le Floch: Carte Blanche to Laurent Joffrin (Meet-up) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 16:00 — General City Tour (Guided Tour) · Visites Guidées de Blois (Departure from Château)
• 16:15 — Can We Trust Merchants? (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 16:15 — Building Society: The History of Commercial Associations from Antiquity to the Present Day (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi Vert

• 16:15 — Agricultural "commodities" as cinematic objects (Cine-conferences) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 16:15 — What lessons can we learn from 10 centuries of French capitalism? (Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Pierre de Ronsard Room
• 16:15 — Merchants facing blockades (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Municipal Council Room
• 16:15 — 2026 Virtual reality experience (Screening) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Digital Agora
• 16:30 — Are protectionism and mercantilism inevitable? (Round table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Red Amphitheatre
• 16:30 — The Turning Point. Germany, 1933: In-depth interview with Johann Chapoutot (Major Interview) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hemicycle
• 16:30 — What is the future for migration in a fragmented globalization? (Round table) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheatre 2
• 16:30 — The hunger of history (Dual-voice lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Kleber-Loustau Room
• 16:30 — Power in its place: Women in the Middle Ages (Interview) · Blois • City Hall, Malfray Room
• 16:45 — My video game in 10 minutes (Meet the author) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Digital Agora
• 17:00 — 2026 High School History Book Prize Ceremony (Award ceremony) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Room
• 17:00 — How was our Middle Ages constructed? (Interview) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Adult Section
• 17:00 — Billy the Kid, the origins of America: in-depth interview with Éric Vuillard (Literary Café) · Blois • Literary Café
• 17:00 — The economic model of the Italian City-States, a maritime success (11th-15th centuries) (Interview) · Blois • City Hall, Wedding Room
• 17:00 — The France of Pierre Nora (Round table) · Blois • Prefecture, Reception Hall
• 17:00 — The merchants of Prato during the Renaissance (Podcast episode) · Blois • Cité du numérique, Main Hall
• 17:00 — 2026 Virtual reality experience (Screening) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Digital Agora
• 17:00 — Bone seeker (Meet the author) · Blois • Book Fair, Youth Section
• 17:00 — READING by ANNIE HUET: "TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS" (based on LAURE GRANDBESANÇON) (Performance) · Blois • Maurice Genevoix Media Library
• 17:15 — Luxury merchants and goods (16th-19th centuries): materialities, circulations, identities (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheatre 1
• 17:30 — Spoliating the Jews (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Chapter Room
• 17:30 — Jeanne Bohec, the General's saboteur (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Mansart Room
• 17:30 — When women built America (Interview) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheatre 3
• 17:30 — From Alexandre Vialatte to Pierre Jourde (Round table) · Valencisse • Château du Guérinet D'Orchaise
• 17:30 — Warrior women. History of female combatants (Meet the author) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Tom-Tom et Nana Room
• 17:30 — Thinking about the historicity of slavery in Africa: writings and self-practices in Fouta-Djallon (Guinea) (Paper presentation) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 17:30 — Guided tour of the exhibition Portraits of an era: photos from the Harcourt studio during the Occupation (Guided tour) · Blois • Resistance, Deportation and Memory Center
• 17:45 — The words of the people: what fate for the 2019 grievance books? (Interview) · Blois • Judicial Court, Correctional Courtroom
• 17:45 — Major Interview with Catherine Meurisse (Major Interview) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Pierre de Ronsard Room
• 18:00 — LS83 by Herman SZWARCBART (Screening and discussion) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Samuel Paty Auditorium
• 18:00 — Is living matter for sale? (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheatre 2
• 18:00 — The commodification of the Olympic Games (Round table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Kleber-Loustau Room
• 18:00 — Charles IX, a child on the throne of France (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Estates General Room
• 18:00 — Trade, a "money war" under Colbert (Workshop) · Blois • INSA, Main Building - Small Amphitheatre
• 18:00 — Gallery owners, or galley slaves? Women and the art market in the 20th century (Lecture) · Vineuil • Vineuil, Village Hall
• 18:15 — UNDER THE DANCE FLOOR BY SARA TIMAR (A house in Budapest) (Screening and discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 18:15 — Nota Bene | When France spied on China (Interview) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheatre 1
• 18:30 — From the Hanseatic League to Elon Musk: are merchants more powerful than states? (Round table) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hemicycle
• 18:30 — Marc Bloch. History in resistance (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Malfray Room
• 18:30 — CINEMA LESSON BY RÉBECCA ZLOTOWSKI (Interview) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 18:30 — Grand Prix of the Rendez-vous de l'histoire Ceremony (Award ceremony) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hemicycle
• 18:30 — Anatomy of Iran (Interview) · Blois • Literary Café
• 18:30 — The Right in France today: re-reading René Rémond (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Wedding Room
• 18:30 — Nanbanjin, or the day Portugal and Japan met... (Meet the author) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheatre 2
• 19:00 — The revolutionary epic between 1760 and 1830 (Major Interview) · Blois • Prefecture, Reception Hall
• 19:15 — The freedom to publish (Round table) · Valencisse • Château du Guérinet D'Orchaise
• 20:00 — Sell, Self, Slay (Performance) · Blois • Théâtre Nicolas Peskine
• 20:15 — Catherine Leroy, a French woman in the Vietnam War by Marie-Christine GAMBART (Screening and discussion) · Blois • Abbé-Grégoire Library, Samuel Paty Auditorium
• 20:45 — The 9th Image Marathon (Screening and discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1

Sunday, October 11th, 2026

• 08:30 — Libé 2 Breakfast (Discussion) · Blois, France • Bar restaurant café Les Frères du Val
• 09:00 — What mythologies of history for our time? (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Hall
• 09:00 — When merchants took over the city: comparing the political role of merchants in the cities of the Kingdom of Babylon (18th-18th century BCE) and Latin Christendom (12th-15th century) (Presentation) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 09:15 — The territories of merchant privileges (17th-19th centuries) (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheater 1
• 09:15 — ITALY AND ITS MERCHANTS OF ILLUSIONS; FROM PEDDLER TO MEMORY THIEF (Cine-conferences) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 09:15 — Conjugating the past in the past? Myths and misconceptions about French history (Round table) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheater 2
• 09:15 — Notaries and merchants in France from the 12th to the 21st century. A special relationship at the heart of French society? (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Wedding Hall
• 09:30 — Merchants in search of maps and manuscripts. Circulation of knowledge between Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and India in the 16th-19th centuries (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheater 2
• 09:30 — From North to South: the shifting world of rural merchants (1640-1914) (Round table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Green Amphitheater
• 09:30 — Ennobled merchants and noble merchants (Round table) · Blois • Departmental Council, Chapter Hall
• 09:30 — Rediscovering Verdun: from glass plates to digital, visual uses of the battle (Round table) · Blois • City Hall, Malfray Hall
• 09:30 — Infographics of empires (Round table) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheater 3
• 09:30 — Dante the insulter. Comic and political poetry in 13th-century Florence (Interview) · Blois • Judicial Court, Assize Court Room
• 09:30 — DURAND CONTRE DURAND BY EUGEN THIELE AND LEO JOANNON (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 09:30 — Ashley's Sack: Grand Interview with Tiya Miles (Interview) · Blois • Prefecture, Reception Hall
• 09:30 — Does capitalism have a religion? (Round table) · Blois • Judicial Court, Correctional Court Room
• 09:30 — Merchants of disorder (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Mansart Hall
• 09:30 — The Asia dreamed of by collectors: from the French East India Company to the Asian collections of museums in the Centre-Val de Loire region (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, States General Hall
• 09:45 — SANS S'ARRÊTER BY BENJAMIN PIAT (Screening-Meeting) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 3
• 09:45 — Is the arms trade compatible with respect for human rights? (Round table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Red Amphitheater
• 09:45 — History of the Nazi party (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Gaston d'Orléans Hall
• 09:45 — From Braudel to Bourguiba: Mediterranean, long duration, and Tunisian identities (Round table) · Blois • Departmental Council, Pierre de Ronsard Hall
• 09:45 — The King of Shanghai (Previews) · Blois • Center for Resistance, Deportation, and Memory
• 10:00 — Have merchants been, and will they be in the future, on the right side of History? (Grand Interview) · Blois • Departmental Council, Kleber-Loustau Hall
• 10:00 — The Algerian War? "A virus dormant in the body"... (Literary Café) · Blois • Literary Café
• 10:00 — Jews, trade, and industry between Paris and London in the 18th century (Interview) · Blois • City Hall, City Council Hall
• 10:00 — Guided tour of the exhibition at the Bishop's Garden (Guided tour)
• 10:00 — Marc Bloch: The historian-soldier in comics (Meeting) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheater 1
• 10:00 — Write your name in hieroglyphics (Workshop) · Blois • Comics House, Workshop
• 10:00 — New insights on Malraux (Meeting) · Blois • Comics House, Tom-Tom and Nana Room
• 10:15 — Tell me about archaeology (Youth Meetings) · Blois • Book Fair, Youth Area
• 10:30 — Norman merchants across the Atlantic: Captain Emery de Caen, from the Americas to West Africa (1603-1643) (Presentation) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Room 214
• 10:30 — Guided tour of the exhibition at the Bishop's Garden (Guided tour)
• 11:00 — Criminocorpus. Teaching the history of justice through online resources (Round table) · Blois • Judicial Court, Assize Court Room
• 11:00 — Robin Hood (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Conference Hall
• 11:00 — The Prehistory of gender. From Lucy to Sapiens (Interview) · Blois • Halle aux Grains, Hemicycle
• 11:00 — Merchants and collectors at the origin of the Fine Arts collections of the Château Royal de Blois, from the 19th century to the MNR (Guided tour) · Blois Guided Tours (Departure from the Castle)
• 11:00 — Visit to the exhibition Watching TV. 25 years of public television in the photographic collection of the National Audiovisual Institute, 1949-1974 (Guided tour) · Blois • Le Capitole
• 11:15 — History of Europe from the 15th-18th century: testing modernities (Round table) · Blois • University Jaurès Site, Amphitheater 2
• 11:15 — "Selling the bear's skin?" The trade of animals, living beings, and merchandise (Antiquity - contemporary era) (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheater 1
• 11:15 — History, international law: how to escape the great blindness? (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Gaston d'Orléans Hall
• 11:15 — "Histo or Mytho: can you tell fact from fiction?" The thread of history told by Ariane and Nino (Youth Meetings) · Blois • Book Fair, Youth Area
• 11:15 — On the trail of Monet and his friends (Quiz) · Blois • City Hall, Wedding Hall
• 11:30 — Everyday Merchants (Cine-conferences) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 2
• 11:30 — Haiti, the ransom of independence by Wandrille LANOS · Blois • Center for Resistance, Deportation, and Memory
• 11:30 — "Freemasonry: a 'merchant sociability', vector of geographical expansion in the Age of Enlightenment" (Round table) · Blois • CCI Campus, Green Amphitheater
• 11:30 — Stories of photographs: a panorama by the journal Photographica (Round table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Mansart Hall
• 11:30 — The Trace by Bernard FAVRE (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Room 1
• 11:30 — Decolonizations: from the burns of history to writing a shared narrative (Round table) · Blois • Magic House, Performance Hall
• 11:30 — Reel merchants, the unloved of cinema? (Round table) · Blois • Departmental Council, Chapter Hall
• 11:30 — Merchants from elsewhere: between integration and rejection (Round table) · Blois • IUT Chocolaterie Site, Amphitheater 2
• 11:30 — Paid leave (Literary Café) · Blois • Literary Café
• 11:30 — Women under the occupation (Interview) · Blois • City Hall, Malfray Hall
• 11:30 — Two historians facing painting (Two-voice lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, States General Hall
• 11:30 — The Etruscans and pre-Roman Italy (12th century BC - 1st century AD) (Interview) · Blois • City Hall, City Council Hall

• 11:30 — The Greeks and Democracy (Interview) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 11:30 — A Global History of Imperialisms (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 11:30 — Escaped Slaves in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (Grand Interview) · Blois • Préfecture, Salle de réception
• 11:30 — The Age of Children: Two Centuries of History (Interview) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 11:30 — France Cambodia (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 3
• 11:30 — The Courtroom in the Classroom? Teaching Terrorism Through the Trials of the 2020s (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 11:30 — Far From the Eucalyptus (Meet the Author) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 11:45 — Art Dealers: Sources and Narratives (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 11:45 — Russia: An Empire Without Merchants? (Presentation) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Salle 214
• 11:45 — Writing a Nation's History: An Insurmountable Challenge? Cross-Perspectives from France and Quebec (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi rouge
• 13:00 — Documentary Screening (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 13:45 — La Ligne bleue by Marie DUMORA (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 3
• 14:00 — Le Corset by Louis CLICHY (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 14:00 — Exile and Feasts on the Atlantic: Cuisine, Gastronomy, and Table Arts Aboard Transatlantic Liners (1818-1974) (Lecture) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle du conseil municipal
• 14:00 — Transporting for Merchants: The Trades of Goods Transport and Handling (Europe - Americas, 16th-18th c.) (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 14:00 — Merchants and Justice Today (Lecture) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle des Assises
• 14:00 — Auschwitz: A History of Women (Interview) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 14:00 — Molière and La Fontaine: How to Sell Your Art Under the Sun King? (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 14:00 — The Ball of the Struck: Louis XIV's Coup d'État (Literary Café) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 14:00 — From Slavery to Freedom: The Odyssey of the Tinchants, 1793-1945 (Interview) · Blois • Préfecture, Salle de réception
• 14:00 — Women and the Liberation (Round Table) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 3
• 14:00 — The Beginnings of Barter (Workshop) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Atelier
• 14:00 — The Fondation du Doute: A Permanent Exhibition Dedicated to Fluxus · Blois • Fondation du doute
• 14:15 — Book Merchants Facing Cultural Revolutions, from the Invention of Writing to the Digital Age (Round Table) · Blois • Campus de la CCI, Amphi rouge
• 14:15 — Writers and Money: From Aristophanes to Annie Ernaux (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 14:15 — Paris: An Ordinary City? (Round Table) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle Malfray
• 14:15 — HENRI KRASUCKI - We Wanted to Live, But Not at Any Price (Round Table) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des Conférences
• 14:15 — ATHENS AT THE ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY BY FLORENCE TRAN (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 2
• 14:15 — Diving into the Odyssey: Grand Interview with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Grand Interview) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 2
• 14:15 — The Gauls Do Not Exist! Celtic Civilization: A European Reflection (Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle des États Généraux
• 14:15 — Cultural History of Artificial Intelligence (Round Table) · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire, Salle du tribunal correctionnel
• 14:15 — Quiz: The Incredible History of Humanity (Quiz) · Blois • Université Site Jaurès, Amphi 1
• 14:15 — History of the Civic Enterprise: Decathlon or the Tactics of Virtue (Round Table) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 14:30 — Prehistory: What Lessons for the Present? (Interview) · Blois • Hôtel de ville, Salle des Mariages
• 14:30 — New Forms of Climate Disinformation (Grand Interview) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Gaston d'Orléans
• 14:30 — At the Gates of the World: Merchants and Ports in the Middle Ages (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 2
• 14:30 — Writing the History of One's Own (Round Table) · Blois • Maison de la magie, Salle de spectacle
• 14:30 — Loir-et-Cher in Transition: 1883-1935 (Dual Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Capitulaire
• 14:30 — Our History: The Stars of a World Champion (Interview) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 14:30 — History of the Bicycle During the Occupation (Interview) · Blois • Conservatoire de Musique, Auditorium Hector Berlioz
• 14:30 — Gramsci: A Political Life (Meet the Author) · Blois • Maison de la BD, Salle Tom-Tom et Nana
• 15:00 — Titanic: The Night That Changed Everything (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 15:30 — Bourgeoisie 1900 by Bernard Georges and Jean-Noël Jeanneney (Screening & Discussion) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty
• 15:30 — BESIEGED: When Comics Tell the Story of Sieges (Interview) · Blois • Café littéraire
• 15:30 — Lili, 11 Years Old, Deported to Ravensbrück and Then Bergen-Belsen (Meet the Author) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Kleber-Loustau
• 15:45 — The Expansion of Venetian Trade in the 13th and 14th Centuries (Lecture) · Blois • Château Royal de Blois, Salle Mansart
• 16:00 — Selling the Dream: Promoting Aviation in the 20th Century (Round Table) · Blois • Site Chocolaterie de l'IUT, Amphi 1
• 16:15 — Art Dealers in Search of the Grail (Dual Lecture) · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Salle Pierre de Ronsard
• 16:15 — Embark with Pierre Gemme to the Time of the Pyramids! (Youth Encounters) · Blois • Salon du livre, Espace Jeunesse
• 16:45 — The Wing or the Thigh by Claude ZIDI (Screening) · Blois • Les Lobis, Salle 1
• 17:00 — Getting France Out of the Drug Trafficking Trap / The Strategy of the National Anti-Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office (Lecture) · Blois • Halle aux grains, Hémicycle
• 17:30 — Steel Flowed in Our Veins by Thierry MICHEL and Christine PIREAU (Screening) · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, Auditorium Samuel Paty

Exhibitions (running throughout the festival)

• The Nameless War in Comics · Tuesday, September 8 – Saturday, October 31 · Blois • Maison de la BD
• Portraits of an Era: Studio Harcourt photos during the Occupation - Exhibition · Wednesday, September 16 – Sunday, October 25 · Blois • Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire
• Reflections of the Distant: The Asia Dreamed by Collectors · Saturday, September 19 – Sunday, May 16
• Watching TV: 25 years of public television in the National Audiovisual Institute's photographic archives, 1949-1974 · Monday, September 21 – Sunday, November 15 · Blois • Le Capitole
• The Feasts of Chambord · Thursday, September 24 – Sunday, January 24 · Domaine de Chambord
• Face to Face: Street views, archival views · Monday, September 28 – Thursday, October 29 · Blois • Grilles de l'Évêché
• ECONOMIX: History of French Capitalism · Tuesday, September 29 – Monday, November 23 · Jardin de l'Évêché
• Audiovisual archives of justice: four decades of trials filmed for history (1985-2025) · Saturday, October 3 – Sunday, October 18 · Blois • La Fabrique
• Autochromes of the Great War · Monday, October 5 – Thursday, October 29 · Blois • Grilles de la préfecture
• Merchants on the Eastern Front (1915-1919) · Monday, October 5 – Thursday, October 29 · Blois • Tribunal Judiciaire
• Merchant Navy (1939-1940) · Monday, October 5 – Thursday, October 29 · Blois • Conseil Départemental, Cloître de l'hôtel du Département
• Clément Courgeon, aka Triboulet, presents The Xtreme Show · Wednesday, October 7 · Blois • Fondation du doute, Pavillon d'exposition temporaire
• The Fondation du doute: a permanent exhibition dedicated to Fluxus · Wednesday, October 7 · Blois • Fondation du doute
• For a Split Second by Guy Delisle · Thursday, October 8 · Blois • Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire
• Together Let's Dialogue · Friday, October 9 · Blois • Banque de France
• Historical Atlas of the Sea · Friday, October 9 · Blois • Café littéraire