Following the 25 April Revolution, Silbert’s work exerted a profound influence on the programmes and bibliographies of history courses created or restructured in Portugal after this transformative period. His analysis of Portuguese feudalism, including his exploration of the issue of charters, left a lasting mark on generations of young scholars studying Portuguese rural society at the end of the Ancien Régime and during the first half of the 19th century. This influence, it can be assumed, extended beyond history into geography, sociology, and anthropology courses, where interest in the evolution of agrarian structures and rural Portuguese society flourished, particularly from the late 1970s into the following decade. In the meantime, Albert Silbert had attempted to study another region that had intrigued him from an early age: Trás-os-Montes. This area offered fertile ground for exploring one of his most cherished topics—agrarian collectivism. However, lacking sufficient resources to continue his research there, he turned his attention to French agrarian history, focusing on the study of tithes in the Beaune region from the 16th to the 18th centuries. This work culminated in a contribution to a collective volume edited by Joseph Goy and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie on the fluctuations of tithe production from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century, published in 1972. ("Les relations franco-portugaises à la fin du XIXe siècle" [Franco-Portuguese relations at the end of the 19th century]. Histoire du Portugal, Histoire Européenne [Portuguese History, European History], 1987, pp. 237-252). Later, after taking up a position at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, Silbert felt compelled to specialise in contemporary Auvergne. This sense of obligation resulted in “ La région Auvergne pendant le gouvernement Daladier” [The Auvergne region during the Daladier government], published in 1978, marking his second venture into 20th-century history. Despite these diversions, Silbert’s interest in Portugal remained steadfast. He continued to publish studies on its 19th-century history, increasingly focusing on foreign relations—particularly with France—and extending his scope to the latter half of the century. This shift is evidenced by works such as Les relations franco-portugaises à la fin du XIXe siècle and A crise portuguesa de 1890-91 vista de França [The Portuguese Crisis of 1890-91 as Seen from France]. These were respectively published in the volume Histoire du Portugal, Histoire Européenne, and in the journal Análise Social ( “A crise portuguesa de 1890-91 vista de França,” Análise Social , Issues 123-124, (1994) pp. 1093-1115). This broader focus on diplomatic and foreign relations, which began in the 1950s, gained traction with earlier texts such as La France et la politique portugaise de 1825 à 1830 [France and Portuguese politics from 1825 to 1830] and Révolution française et tradition nationale: le cas portugais [The French Revolution and national tradition: the Portuguese case] . These works were published in O Liberalismo na Península Ibérica… (1982, vol. 1, pp. 41–61).

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