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Dear colleagues, I am the organizer of a new history workshop at Reid Hall, the seat of Columbia’s Global Center in Paris, and I am writing to you today because one or both of the participants in the seminar this week—Clare Crowston and Claire Lemercier—suggested that you might be particularly interested in attending. I have posted the details of this event on the H-France listserv; in this message (whith Clare Crowston’s permission) I am extending a particular welcome and circulating the paper we will be discussing.On Thursday 5 June 2014 at 6pm Clare Crowston (University of Illinois) will present a paper entitled How to Make an Old Regime Society: Apprenticeship, Guilds, and the Lessons of the Life Course. Claire Lemercier (CNRS/Sciences Po) will comment. Reid Hall is located at 4 rue de Chevreuse 75006 (metro Vavin on line 4). There is a vélib station outside the center.Clare Crowston is the author of numerous articles and of two monographs. Her first book, Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (Duke, 2001), won the Berkshire Prize for the best first book in history by a woman in North America and the Hagley Prize in business history. Her second monograph, Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France was published by Duke in fall 2013. For a podcast about the book, see http://ift.tt/1l0O9Nk. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).Claire Lemercier is an historian of capitalism who focuses on the development of economic and legal institutions. Her books include Un si discret pouvoir: aux origines de la Chambre de commerce de Paris, 1803-1853 (La Découverte, 2003) and, with Claire Zalc, Méthodes quantitatives pour l'historien (La Découverte, 2008). Her articles have appeared in journals including Enterprise and Society, Génèses, and Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine. She is chargée de recherche at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CNRS and Science-Po).mspieler@aup.edu