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

   Roques,  Mort de Marat  (1793) 163.2 cm x 128 cm . Musée des Augustins, Toulouse This striking rendition of the death of Marat by...

David's Death of Marat is one of the most iconic pictures in Western art,  but there is much uncertainty surrounding its concept...

Was the great Newton himself attracted to the French Prophets? The natural contact between Newton and the Prophets would have been Fat...

[Yes, I know I am straying from the theme of French  trivia....] The most prominent Englishman among the French Prophets, John Lacy, w...

This account of the Prophetess Elizabeth Gray (sometimes "Grey") is taken from a pamphet of 1707 by Richard Kingston, a vituperati...

The French Prophets and their followers were a Millenarian group which for a short time caused a considerable stir in early 18th-century L...