Appel de Blois is an initiative in 2008[1] by Liberté pour l’Histoire to work against legislative authorities criminalizing the past through the legislative,[2] thus putting more and more obstacles in the way of historical research. It was signed by historians such as Carlo Ginzburg, Eric Hobsbawn, and Jacques Le Goff.[3] The appeal, which was directed at the European public, particularly scholars, historians, and academics, called for the rejection of "moralisation" and "judicialisation" of history through the codification of the so-called memory laws.[4]
The initiative asks people to sign up under this: