ABSTRACT
Hlne Metzger always remained at the margins of academia, despite the value of her publications and her numerous scholarly activities. Metzger's gender played an important role in making her a perennial junior member of her intellectual community. Her difficult relationship with the philosopher Emile Meyerson is a case in point. The problems between Metzger and Meyerson probably originated in their incompatible personalities and the difficult position that she, as a woman, had in an overwhelmingly masculine world. Metzger mentioned Ernst Mach and, closer to their', Pierre Duhem, her colleague' Abel Rey and Lon Brunschvicg. Metzger's comments shed an interesting light on how these scholars regarded one another's projects. Metzger was not interested either in the history of great men or in the history of events, and she opposed to the latter her history of scientific thought'. The historian Metzger was indeed among those who employed Lucien Lvy-Bruhl's theory of mentality.
