An alumnus of the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome, Simon Sarlin is a Non-tenured Research Fellow at the CNRS. His work looks at Mediterranean Europe and counter-revolutionary movements in the 19th century. His doctoral thesis will soon be published by the École française de Rome as Le Légitimisme en armes. Histoire d’une mobilisation internationale contre l’Unité italienne. He also contributed to the Dictionnaire de la Contre-Révolution (Jean-Clément Martin ed., Perrin, 2011).