FRENCH HISTORIOGRAPHIC CONCEPTSOF THE EASTERN EUROPEAN REGION(XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY)
Analysis of the development of French historiography of the 19th - early 21st centuries shows that the orientalist approach to the study of the Eastern European region was gradually smoothed out, the concepts of Central, Central-Eastern, and Central Europe arose, which in the context of the formation of a united Europe justified the involvement of the eastern part of the region in Western European culture and its political separation from Russia.