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Antoine Lilti is a professor at the Collège de France and director of studies at the EHESS, attached to the Centre for Historical Research (CRH) and the Study Group of Modern Historiographies (GEHM). His work focuses on the social and cultural history of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Europe and its intellectual legacies.

Lilti has published on the sociability of Parisian salons (Le monde des salons, Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Fayard, 2005), then on the history of celebrity as a modern form of notoriety (Figures publiques, l'invention de la célèbre, 1750-1850) and on the history of the notion of Europe (Penser l'Europe. Commerce, civilisation, empire. Penser l'Europe au XVIIIe siècle , Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2014, edited with Céline Spector). His most recent works are L'héritage des Lumières, Ambivalences de la modernité (Editions de l'EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil), 2019 and Actualité des Lumières. Une histoire plurielle (Fayard, Collège de France, 2023).