Maurice Dommanget played an essential role in the Société des études robespierristes, and in the writing of the Annales révolutionnaires, then the AHRF from 1913 to 1964. Close to Albert Mathiez, he was essentially a primary school teacher, militant union member, socialist, then communist (until 1929), anti-militarist, who animated the SER until 1926, and after his retirement in 1948. He was among the most assiduous editors of the Annales, with more than 140 contributions to his name; the author of the fi rst table decennale in 1919 ; the historian of the journal in 1958. He issued an appeal in 1964 to enlarge the public for the AHRF, and to pursue the mission of transmitting the scholarly history of the French Revolution by recalling the meaning and the critical issues involved for the creation of the SER. A historian of social confl ict, political no less than religious, Maurice Dommanget, a « proletarian in a suit » deserves special recognition at the commemoration of the centennial of the organization, and of the journal for which he did so much.