French historian Paul Veyne's Writing History(Comment on ecrit l'histoire), published in 1971, is one of important historical texts in late 20th century. This theoretical text on historiography brought about many arguments on historical epistemology in France. These arguments became international after a article of Lawrence Stone, “The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History”(1979) and a text of Hayden White, Metahistory(1979). There are many different interpretations of Writing History. Someone explains that the theory of history of Paul Veyne is a sort of empiricism. Others expounds it in the trace of french relativism. So far as some interpretation regard it as a precursor of postmodernism. These different interpretations are produced from defects of his theory of history. Paul Veyne separates ‘intrigue’ from the history of structure; study of history from the present time; subjectivity from objectivity of the historiography. Paul Veyne's Writing History has nevertheless an important meaning, because his text emphasizes a importance of narrative in the study of history, and attempts to elucidate the concept of intrigue for the first time in the tradition of modern historiography. Paul Veyne opened a field for rich arguments on the theory of history, and on the historical epistemology.