The preparation of the RIIG (Recueil informatisé des inscriptions gauloises) aims to produce a critical and commented edition of the Gaulish texts known to date, in order to constitute a complete synthesis of knowledge on Gaulish epigraphy and language. The work carried out on the inscriptions aims to place them in an archaeological, historical and social context in order to study the place of writing and to question the modalities of self-representation of the Gaulish populations through their language, in the public domain of the city capitals but also of the secondary agglomerations, an approach that has never been taken until now. Our approach will be fully epigraphic, i.e. it will closely link archaeological and linguistic data in order to have as complete a picture as possible for the socio-linguistic analysis of the texts studied.

The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to study the roughly one hundred ground-floor latrines in the city of Ostia, one of the main cities of the Roman Empire, port and image of Rome, as well as the fifty or so downpipes considered to be evacuations of upper storey latrines. Their study will allow us to understand, through archaeology, all aspects of their architecture. The archaeometric analysis of the samples taken from the stercoral concretions formed at the bottom of the pipes will provide a reliable picture of the sanitary state of the population, but also of its diet and environment. This project is in the continuity of the researches performed on the ancient latrines, which have been revived for the last 20 years. The paleoparasitological analyses, by revealing the presence of digestive parasites, will offer the possibility of discussing the effectiveness of the hygiene measures, implemented by such structures, on the parasitic infections circulating within the population. Palaeomicrobiological analyses will track bacterial and viral pathogens. The filling of latrines will allow the study of the spectra of animal and plant species consumed in different parts of the city as well as their natural environment. The project associates 7 partners with complementary and multidisciplinary skills under the direction of A. Bouet: Ecole française de Rome (E. Bukowiecki), Parco archeologico d'Ostia antica (C. Tempesta), Ausonius (A. Bouet), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement de Besançon (M. Le Bailly), PACEA (O. Dutour), ISYEB (T. Wirth) as well as CReAAH of Rennes (B. Ephrem). Palynology will be performed as service provided by the ARPA Laboratory (J. Argant). This innovative approach carried out on the whole of the Ostia latrines will be a first at the level of a Roman city of the imperial period in the western Mediterranean.

The ASPROCLER project aims to find, analyse and make available to researchers all the documentation produced by the Provincial Assemblies of the Clergy, convened in France between 1579 and 1788 to prepare for the General Assemblies. Their powers – nomination of agents general, appointment of deputies, management of local ecclesiastical affairs – made them privileged intermediaries between the dioceses and the court. Approximately a thousand minutes of deliberations were drawn up by these ecclesiastical assemblies, along with various manuscripts: convocations, proxies, lists of grievances and wishes, memoirs, etc. These sources, which have never been published before, bear witness to an original form of democracy. They shed light on many aspects of religious, political and social life in the French provinces under the Ancien Régime.