Jacques Guilhaumou is researcher in history and linguistics (UMR ‘Triangle’, Lyon University, CNRS/ENS-LSH). He works on discourse analysis, gender history and history of concepts, principally with regard to the eighteenth century and the French Revolution. His latest book is Discours et événement. L’histoire langagière des concepts (Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2006).