Thomas Fouilleron
Administrator
Born in 1975, Thomas Fouilleron, Ph.D. in History, is the Director of the Archives and Library of the Prince's Palace of Monaco since 2012. An associate researcher at the Centre for the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (UPR 1193), he was formerly a teacher at the Lycée Albert Ier of Monaco and a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nice. His research focuses on the relationship between the nobility and the monarchy, political rituals and cultural practices in Monaco, France and Mediterranean Europe from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. He is the author of some thirty studies, published in conference proceedings, collective volumes, scientific journals and exhibition catalogues (including Princes and Princesses of Monaco. A European dynasty. XIIIe-XXIe siècle, at the Forbidden City in Beijing) and two books: his thesis, published in 2012 by Honoré Champion, entitled « Des princes en Europe ». « The Grimaldis of Monaco », « Lights in the springtime of peoples », and a textbook, « Monaco’s History », published in 2010 and again in 2016.