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

The lifelong enmity between Voltaire and the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau began on a carriage-ride in Brussels in 1722..... The personalit...

Chaulieu's Epicurean vision, as expressed in his poetry and those of his companions, had a number of standard themes: preference for p...

Part drinking club, part haven for Epicurean poets, the "Society of the Temple" occupies a largely forgotten place in the history ...

In the autumn of 1704 François de Castagnères, abbé de Châteauneuf introduced his young godson to a living legend, the famous courtesan, sal...

According to the caption, this photograph, published on a Belgian blog, represents a bust of Robespierre by Houdon which has been "...

At the time of the Terror model guillotines were a popular source of (somewhat nervous) amusement. Curtius made quarter-sized guillotines t...

Chalier - 19c bust from the  Mus ée Gagagne,Lyon Following the fall of Lyon Chalier rapidly gained the status of secular saint.  O...

In Lyon in  September 1792 food shortages and price rises combined with sharpened fears of counter-revolution to produce the first consider...