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

But I require unprejudiced witnesses, free from terror and disinterested, quite calm, who can affirm upon serious reflection, that they have...

Here is a suitable book for Halloween - the famous compendium on Apparitions and Vampires by the learned Benedictine scholar Dom Augustin Ca...

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...