She was awarded a PhD in history (2000) on defending her thesis, "The Paris National Guard under the July Monarchy, power at the end of the rifle?

In 2017 and 2018, she was a columnist on the websites Arrêt sur images and Mediapart co-writing a column entitled "Les détricoteuses" with Laurence De Cock.

The CVUH is an association of historians founded to monitor the public use of history for collective memory purposes, particularly by politicians.

[1][8] and gained notoriety by criticising some of Manuel Valls' positions, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron concerning various aspects of French history such as colonisation or the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts.

[8] She co-founded a collective that wanted to renew the left, Le Temps des Lilas, and participated in the Nuit debout movement.

[8] She is a member of the lecturer's branch of the left-wing public officials' union, FSU (Fédération Syndicale Unitaire), SNESUP-FSU.