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

Here are a few biographical notes concerning one of the lesser known of David's prison companions, the deputy Jean-Baptiste Gabriel-Loui...

Here, collected from different websites, are images of David's medallion portraits depicting the former Montagnard deputies who were imp...

? David, Portrait of an unknown man, presumed to be his gaoler, c.1794 1794 Oil on canvas.  55.5cm x 46cm  This striking portrait attributed...

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, Portrait of David , 88cm x 74.5cm Louvre https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE001674 This reproductio...

Antoine Gros, portrait of David, c.1790, Oil on canvas 63cm x 52cm, Pushkin Museum Moscow. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-L...

Here is another famous medical affliction, the growth which disfigured the face of the painter Jacques-Louis David.  Maquette of a posthumou...

  I can't believe I managed to miss this story!!!  Here is yet another quest in historical anthropology from "France's most ...

The skull of Charlotte Corday is among the most resonant relics of the French Revolution.  In recent times it has inspired both the cr...

Strange how it is possible to normalise the most extreme and macabre situations!  Here is a translation of two forgotten documents from a 19...

To replace the Madeleine Cemetery the Commune of Paris chose a more discreet location, at the far end of the district of Petite-Pologne.  Th...