Cet article se concentre sur l'échange continu et réciproque d'idées et de personnes qui a existé tout au long de l'ère révolutionnaire entre la Hollande et les États-Unis. Nous soutenons tout d'abord que l'influence américaine aux Pays-Bas ne se limitait pas au Parti Patriote, mais incluait également les partisans du stathouder. Deuxièmement, l'influence de la Révolution américaine sur les penseurs politiques néerlandais ne s'est pas arrêtée au tournant du siècle. Ces deux phénomènes sont le résultat de connexions transatlantiques qui semblent étranges d'un point de vue idéologique mais font sens lorsque le véhicule d'échange est pris en compte. Nous démontrons, troisièmement, que l'accent mis sur les rencontres et les expériences personnelles permet de saisir le caractère transnational de l'ère révolutionnaire.On August 1st, 1816 Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams a letter which discussed poetry, as well as the pleasures and woes of old age. In an aside, Jefferson asked "there is a mr Vanderkemp of N.Y. a correspondent I believe of yours, with whom I have exchanged some letters, without knowing who he is. Will you tell me?" Adams' response a week later was telling: "The Biography of Mr Vander Kemp would require a Volume which I could not write if a Million were offered me as a Reward for the Work". After summing up the most important facts about Van der Kemp-a Dutch revolutionary who fled to America in 1788-Adams concluded: "His head is deeply learned and his heart is pure. I scarcely know a more amiable Character" (Cleave, 2014 1; TJ to JA, 1 Aug. 1816). 1 1. Correspondence by the American Founding Fathers and Van der Kemp is published on Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov. Letters of Van 78 N o 173 4 e TRIMESTRE 2022 Hogendorp (GKH) are published in Hogendorp 1866, letters of Van der Capellen tot den Poll (VDC) are published in Capellen 1879. Revue Française d'Études Américaines

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On footnotesFootnotes are a crucial part of the historian’s craft. Yet, they are often construed as no more than tools, used by historians, and scientists, to refer to sources and relevant literature. By looking at several student handbooks on history writing and recent studies on annotation practices, we argue in this discussion article that footnotes are more than simple references to other people’s work and that historians would do well to reflect on this. Footnotes can help historians construct historiographical and scientific discussions, and are therefore inextricably linked to politics of representation, inclusion and exclusion. Footnotes, we argue, fulfill a social and political function as knowledge brokers. With the rise of citation indexes problems of self-citation and gender misattribution have recently received more attention. Research into the uses and misuses of footnotes can shine a light on citation practices that reflect inequalities within academia. Therefore, it is worth considering more closely what happens in the literal margins of history writing.

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