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

  Claude Jacquart, Marriage cortège of the prince de Lixheim in the courtyard of the palace of Lunéville, on 19th August 1721. Oil on canvas...

LIFE OF THE COURT Grand ceremonies and festivals In addition to the splendour of his palace, and his imposition of courtly ritual, Leopold s...

One would not believe one had changed location when one passes from Versailles to Lunéville   Voltaire. Un peu d'histoire... ... For 18t...

"Like a phoenix, our château is reborn from its ashes" Marie-Danièle Closse, president of the association Lunéville château des Lu...

How do modern historians view relationship between Danton and Robespierre?   Here is a translation/ summary of Hervé Leuwers's article, ...

In March of last year an iconic piece of Revolutionary history went under the hammer when the Versailles auction house Osenat offered for sa...

May 2022 saw the publication   of Volume 12 of the critical edition of the works of Robespierre , containing - among other items - the long ...

It is a curious footnote to the story of Désilles to discover that a second person was credited with heroism the "Nancy Affair" - ...

Le Barbier,  Heroic courage of the young Désilles  (1794) - detail The making of an artist The career of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier is...

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738, Rouen - 1826, Paris) Le Courage héroïque du jeune Désilles, le 30 août 1790, à l’affaire de Nancy 17...