John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches French and Modern European History. Among his many books are Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (2005) and The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002).

In the XXI century of Spain we have the Massacre of him. Life and death in the Paris Commune of 1871 (2017) and The Dynamite Club. How a bomb in fin de siècle Paris was the trigger for the era of modern terrorism (2020).