My research interests have evolved from financial history towards the history of money, debts wars and crises (the latter two being the main cause of the former), inflation and black markets and the links between literature and economic knowledge. I specialize on French and European 19th and 20th c. history with a strong taste for Japanese history. This taste for literature, and more specifically Balzac, has been a key reason for joining Pembroke College.

I am currently aresident researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford working on three main projects: a comparative history of France and United Kingdom’s reaction to the technical and industrial evolution of gold coinage in the mid-19th c.; a history of European and world prices and black markets during WW2; a history of the legal, fiscal and financial engineering behind warehouse finance in the long 19th c.

I enjoy teaching and connecting the past and the present, and currently supervise serval PhD and master theses on various subjects related to European economic history.

I was educated at Sciences Po Paris (public law and economics) and obtained a master degree in contemporary (political and cultural) history but did not head immediately towards academia: I first created a small consultant llp with a friend before starting my PhD on the French financial discount system a few years later. After defending my PhD I became associate professor at Université Paris Nanterre / IDHE.S. I presented my habilitation (HDR) in 2018 on a social history of money in 19th c. France. Since entering academia, I’ve published over 150 articles, chapters and reviews in French, English and a few other European languages (detail: see CV).

• “Tous les droits sont dans la monnaie : l’exemple du billet dit de banque”, Monnaie, commerce, souveraineté et droit Vol. 3, DROITS Revue française de théorie, de philosophie et de culture juridiques, n° 79 PUF, 2024 [parution 2026].
• With Matéo Teixeira, “The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the Cost-of-living index in France, 1938–49”, The Economic History Review, May 2026, DOI:10.1111/ehr.70127
• “La question économique chez les Goncourt”, in Béatrice Laville et Vérane Partensky (dir.) Cahiers Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, [Online], n° 28, 2023, published online 29/10/2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/cejdg/1258 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/cejdg.1258
• “The doctor is a quack: The Delahaye brothers, or how fringe politicians framed the 1930s financial crisis narrative in the French Senate”, in Anders Ögren, Andrés Alvarez, Masato Shizume, Vincent Bignon (eds), Money Doctors Around the Globe. A Historical Perspective, Springer, Studies in Economic History, Singapore, 2024, pp. 235-255.
• “La moralisation du crédit, ou l’échec du contrôle bancaire dans l’entre-deux-guerres” in Jean-Luc Mastin (dir.), Le contrôle bancaire en France. XIXe – XXIe siècles, Lille, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2023.
• With E. Monnet, A. Riva et S. Ungaro, “Flight-to-safety and the Credit Crunch. A new history of the banking crisis in France during the Great Depression”, The Economic History Review, 74, 1, 2021, p. 223-250.
• With A. Riva, “Au prisme du scandale : crise, faillites bancaires, et régulation financière dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres”, Entreprises & Histoire, n° 101-4, 2020, p. 44-63.
• With M. Mazbouri et Th. Giddey, “Le scandale financier comme projet de recherche”, Entreprises & Histoire, n° 101-4, 2020, p. 6-13.
• “The Bank of France’s balance sheets database, 1840-1998: an introduction to 158 years of central banking”, Financial History Review, 2018, vol. 25, n° 2, p. 203-230, doi:10.1017/S0968565018000070.