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

Pierre Bouillon, The trial of Marie-Antoinette , 1793, Musée Carnavalet Chauveau-Lagarde can be recognised seated at the table behind th...

The Musée du Barreau de Paris is a museum dedicated to the Paris bar and its lawyers. It features historical exhibits from the library of t...

Illustration from La Religieuse ( 1804 )   The "Préface-Annexe" to La Religieuse famously explains how Diderot's work was...

T he abbey at Longchamp, the setting for Diderot's  La Religieuse,  had a reputation for laxity. The convent was at the sam...

Lanhydrock -  urn in situ These splendid - and well-travelled -  Baroque bronze garden urns, which now adorn the National Trust gar...

"Longchamp sous Louis XIV" .From  L'Illustration, Journal Universel , 30 April 1859 The "Promenade of Longchamp...