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

Description  This magnificent wheelchair, upholstered in lemon-coloured velvet, once belonged to Robepierre's ally on the ...

William Henry Fisk (1827-1884) Robespierre Receiving Letters from  Friends of his Victims with Assassination Threats, 1863 Oil o...

Well, eating frogs legs always seemed a pretty naff idea to me! The sophistications of French cuisine were certainly beyond 18th-century A...

Adrienne Lecouvreur  as Cornelia,  widow of  Pompey  in Corneille's Mort de Pompée. Pastel portrait by Charles-Antoine Coypel, C...

The story of the suffering, death and humiliating clandestine burial of Adrienne Lecouvreur highlights very effectively the peculiar combina...

Oil, Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, Château de Versaille s  The Voltaire who first encountered Adrienne Lecouvreur in 1719 was st...

Chevalier d'Éon by  Thomas Stewart, after Jean Laurent Mosnier oil on canvas, 1792 NPG 6937 This beautiful and wistful portra...