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

Cenotaph of King Stanislas, Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Nancy Death and autopsy It had taken King Stanislas eighteen long days to die. ...

"Tout ce qui est humain ne fait espérer de bon " (All that is human gives no hope for good) King   Stanislas  to  Marie Leszczyńsk...

Saint-Dié was rebuilt without delay on the best conceived of plans, with the wide, clean, spacious, strictly aligned streets that we see tod...

Une Favorite - " a woman who costs a lot, but gives great pleasure" This photo and the those below are from Wikimedia , taken in ...

Here are some notes from another of Pierre Boyé's evocative studies, this time concerning King Stanislas's relationship with his gra...

Since the devastating fire of 2003 at Lunéville, there has been a renewed academic interest not only in re-imagining but also in re-conceptu...

  La Malgrange André Joly, Château de La Malgrange, seen from des Goulottes , Musée Lorrain, Nancy.  Wikimedia The"Tableau Gillet"...

How could he have all these houses built? He must have the philosopher's stone.    Comment of Louis XV, reported to Montesquieu (quoted ...

[continued from previous post] The Bas Bosquets and the Chartreuses The Chartreuses were a series of garden structures built between 1741 an...

The Park of Duke Leopold   At Lunéville, Stanislas also inherited the Park of "Les Bosquets" to the rear of the palace, which he e...