This paper focuses on the relationships between the French artists in Rome and the artistic society of the papal capital from the reopening of the French Academy at the Villa Medici in 1803 to the early 1840s. A census of French art exhibitions in Rome and a study of reviews of them that appeared in the local art press reveal a level of integration of the French artists that has been often underestimated by the historians. This study offers a new reading of the documents necessary to understanding the relationships between the French milieu and Roman artistic circles during the nineteenth century.