Under the guidance of Professor Sylvaine Guyot and in collaboration with faculty and students from the École W, Paris 8, and Université Paris Nanterre, six Harvard graduate students participated in a laboratory-workshop during March 2017 in Paris, France.

Focusing on Pierre-Laurent de Belloy's Le Siège de Calais, students researched the play's historical and mythological sources and its iconography, analyzed the text, worked with the Comédie-Française's archives to consider the play's reception, and explored the ideological debate between patriotism and...