Rodama: a blog of 18th-century & Revolutionary France

Just over sixty years ago the so-called "Branche Verte" was  a conspicuous landmark on the D878  between La Prévière and Juigné-de...

It is the suffering,  finally,  of this young woman of 1796 which has been erected into a sacred phenomenon. Françoise Gründ,  ethnoscénogra...

Woodcut by Pierre-François Godard, engraved in Alençon and dated 1796. From a popular edition of the  Complaintes en l'honneur de Perrin...

To enjoy for Christmas.... These gorgeous, beautifully re-imagined, rococo interiors are by Vicente García de Paredes, a Spanish artist who ...

Cenotaph of King Stanislas, Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Nancy Death and autopsy It had taken King Stanislas eighteen long days to die. ...

"Tout ce qui est humain ne fait espérer de bon " (All that is human gives no hope for good) King   Stanislas  to  Marie Leszczyńsk...

Saint-Dié was rebuilt without delay on the best conceived of plans, with the wide, clean, spacious, strictly aligned streets that we see tod...

Une Favorite - " a woman who costs a lot, but gives great pleasure" This photo and the those below are from Wikimedia , taken in ...

Here are some notes from another of Pierre Boyé's evocative studies, this time concerning King Stanislas's relationship with his gra...

Since the devastating fire of 2003 at Lunéville, there has been a renewed academic interest not only in re-imagining but also in re-conceptu...