Revolution-themed video game

Newly released:  Steelrising - "French Revolution action game" from the French developers Spider.

Editing Voltaire

The University of Oxford has published reflections (and a video) from the Voltaire Foundation, following the completion of the critical edition of Voltaire's Complete Works.
50-year project reveals new insights about the evolution and influence of Voltaire's thought | University of Oxford

Andrew Graham Dixon - Lecture on David announced

On 29th June 2022:  Evening lecture by Andrew Graham Dixon, broadcast on Zoom;  Price £12.

Andrew Graham-Dixon presents The Life and Work of Jacques-Louis David at Online event tickets from TicketSource

Hubert de Givenchy - upcoming auction

Christie's has released a full list of lots for the sale of the late Hubert de Givenchy, which will take place 8-23rd June.

Exhibition - Plates from the Encyclopédie

 Les Planches de l’Encyclopédie: Sources et Polémiques, opens this month at the  Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, 21 May – 3 September 2022

Revolutionary letters auctioned

 Sotheby's London has published sale prices for the auction History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection, held on 13th April.

Fashion exhibition opens in Dijon

The exhibition À la mode: L'art de paraître au 18e siècle runs at the Musée des beaux-arts in Dijon, 13th May-22nd August. 

David exhibition catalogue (review)

The exhibition, Jacques-Louis David:  radical draftsman runa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from  17th February to 15th May  2022. The accompanying catalogue is reviewed by Colin Bailey, NYRB, 12.05.2022. 

Works of Robespierre - volume 12

The Société des Études Robespierristes blog gives details of volume 12 of the Works of Robespierre which has just been published.

Chardin's Strawberries to remain in France

 In March, Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) sold at auction for a record $26.8 million.  It has now been announced that the Louvre intends to exercise its right of pre-emption. 

Robert Darnton lecture

 Liverpool University Press announces the publication as an open-access book of Robert Darnton's public lecture, Theatricality and Violence in Paris, 1788.  

Louis Gauffier exhibition at the Musée Fabre

 Le Voyage en Italie de Louis Gauffier, opens at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, from 7th May to 4th September 2022, and in Poitiers, October 2022 to February 2023

18c skeletons discovered in Béthune

Archaeologists have excavated 13 skeletons, thought to be from the cemetery of the collegiate church of Béthune-Bruay,  demolished in the early 19th century.

From the Maison Robespierre

From La Voix du Nord, 3rd May: Hervé Leuwers and colleagues gather at the Maison Robespierre in Arras to mark the publication of Vol 12 of the Works of Robespierre.