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

As the hagiographies begin to appear on the internet, I wondered how much it is actually possible to discover about the death of Madame Él...

On 22 November last year the Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of France meeting in Lourdes gave the go-ahead to begin proceedings for the...

La Reine en Gaulle by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783.  Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.1 cm. Private collection of Hessische Hausstiftung,...

John Goldworth Alger's  Paris in 1789-94, published in 1902, is one of those old books which is a treasure trove of forgotten trivi...

In September 1794 the acquittal of the "132 Nantais" by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris set in train the indictment of the Nan...

Carrier "during his trial" by Vivant Denon.  Sold at auction in 2013. http://paris.boisgirard-antonini.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=354...