Abstract
This paper takes as its point of departure the multiplicity of Koselleck’s oeuvre to explain its various receptions in French historiography. Two broader receptions of his work emerge in time, albeit in a chronology different than in Germany : one better known, the meta-historical reception centered upon general historiographical and philosophical concepts ; the other less so, a reception focused upon methodology and the historiography attending to revolutions. This paper argues that François Furet acted as the main intellectual mediator in the latter historiographical transmission ; this carries political resonances absent in the meta-historical influence of Koselleck. The two branches of reception never unite in the French instance, offering a possible explanation for the more limited reception of Koselleck’s practices of conceptual history. The essay ends by asking what might be the political stakes of a split reception for Koselleck’s work.