Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2002-3 No 49-3, 2002/3 - pagesPages 7 to 25Between Loyalty and Rebellion: City General Assemblies in Grenoble (1588 – 1598)By Stéphane GalPages 26 to 53Neighborhood Politics: Rights, Duties, and Conflicts in Ghent (17th–18th Centuries)By Harald Deceulaer, Marc JacobsPages 54 to 68“Liberal Arts” and “Free Arts” in Paris in the Eighteenth Century: Artists Between the Guild and the Royal AcademyBy Charlotte GuichardPages 69 to 88The Second Reading Revolution in 18th-Century ItalyBy Brendan DooleyPages 89 to 118Theater and Its Audiences: Practices and Representations of the Parterre in Paris in the 18th CenturyBy Jeffrey S. RavelPages 119 to 139The Music Culture of a Capital: The Days of the Beau Monde in London, 1700 – 1870By William WeberPages 140 to 167Female Painters at Work: Self-Portraits as Political Manifestos (18th - 19th Centuries)By Marie-Jo BonnetPages 168 to 175The Modernization of Art: Introduction of Oil Painting in Republican ChinaBy Éric JanicotPages 176 to 194Religious Symbols or Decontextualized Forms of Art: Transforming the Role of Images (15th–18th Centuries)By Olivier ChristinPages 195 to 208Arts as an Element of Anxiety in HistoryBy Jean-Philippe ChimotPages 209 to 250ReviewsBy Florence Alazard