François Cadilhon is University Professor at the Université de Bordeaux 3--Michel de Montaigne. He is a member of the scientific board of the Center for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Worlds and of the national scientific committee on postal history. His research has centered on cultural and religious history in France and Hungary in the 18th century, on Montesquieu and his times, and on the history of education in France from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
