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

On 19th October this year, the manuscript was auctioned of Cléry's famous journal of the last days of the French royal family. It w...

Michèle Lorin : la passion de Marie-Antoinette (francetvinfo.fr)

The French art world has recently been rocked by a series of scandals concerning the marketing of fake 18th-century chairs.  In June 2015...

Yes I've finally found another one!  Not perhaps the most interesting, but certainly the most valuable.... T his armchair was sold...

At the end of September 2015 the sale took place at Christie's in Paris of over a thousand pieces from the collection of the author...

The ritual torture of cats was an element of popular festivities throughout the Medieval and Early Modern period, possibly with roots in pa...

More 18th-century cats: it has to be said that the works of the High Enlightenment were arid reading for cat lovers! The Encyclopédie T...

Born in Paris in 1687, Paradis de Moncrif, author of Les Chats , was ten years older that Voltaire, who was a familiar correspondent. His...

Quite apart from arcane details of cat history, Moncrif's Les Chats  preserves for us many splendid  titbits concerning contemporary pe...

Rest assured, Madame:  one day the merit of Cats will be generally recognised.  In a nation as enlightened as ours, prejudice cannot hold ...