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

Here is an analysis of Robespierre's career and the events of Thermidor taken from P.-F. Tissot's history of the Revolution, publish...

It is always satisfying to be able to put a picture in context. Here, is a portrait auctioned in 2012 of Madame Goujon, née Jeanne Marguerit...

You will see how two young and ardent minds who throw themselves into a career without counting the obstacles, may change the face of the wo...

Louis Coquelet. Mort des derniers montagnards., Musée National de l'Éducation (reseau-canope.fr) Always, in defeat there is hope....howe...

Although my body is subject to the law, my soul remains independent and cannot be crushed.  Defence of Gilbert Romme, deputy to the Conventi...

Portrait by Bonneville. Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon File:Roland de la Platière.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Yet another sorry end from the annals ...

Of all the many personal tragedies of the Revolutionary epoch, none seems more poignant than the death of Condorcet, the great exponent of h...

 Radio 4 Things We Forgot to Remember - The French Revolution  Podcast: (On Internet Archive) https://ia803108.us.archive.org/9/items/rss_tw...

The following is a translation/summary of an interview with Jean-Clément Martin on the theme of "the Terror", which was published ...

Here are some notes from a TV documentary broadcast on 15th February on  France 5  in which Philippe Charlier outline his latest researches ...