Portrait of Marie-Antoinette on display at Versailles

The Connexion reports that Joseph-Siffred Duplessis's portrait of Marie-Antoinette, bought for the Palace of Versailles in  November 2021, is now on display.

Marie-Antoinette Salon series (video lectures)

Now available on YouTube: Three lectures delivered in in April and June to accompany the Opera Lafayette's 2022 season, which celebrates the musical legacy of Marie-Antoinette. Includes Caroline Weber on "M-A Queen of Fashion".
Marie Antoinette Salon Series — Opera Lafayette

Letting Nature in - The Wallace Collection (video)

Curatorial Assistant Félix Zorzo explores how decorative art pieces at the Wallace Collection reflect an interest in the natural world:

How to cheat, the 17th-century way

Newly released on Steam:  Card Shark, a video game based on 17th-century French card games - fiendish!

Lavoisier's laboratory (video)

RFI has posted a short video featuring Lavoisier's scientific instruments in the Musée des Arts et Métiers.  Introduced by Dr Peter Reinhardt.

Fashion exhibition at Dijon (video)

France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté presents a short video showcasing the exhibition À la mode:  L'art de paraître au XVIIIe siècle, currently running in Dijon. (see post of 13th May). 

Michel Gauchet on Robespierre (review)

 The New York Review of Books (June 23rd) publishes an essay by Lynn Hunt on Michel Gauchet's  Robespierre:  the Man who Divides Us Most, which has just been published in English translation by Princeton U.P.

I, the People | Lynn Hunt | The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com)

Leo Damrosch on Casanova (podcast)

 Leon Damrosch's new biography of Casanova was published on 24th May. There are loads of reviews, but you can currently hear Leo Damrosch himself discuss the work on an Princeton Alumni Weekly podcast (31st May)

Revolutionary woman artist "in focus"

The latest in the Washington Post's series "Great Works, In Focus" features Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter by Marie-Victoire Lemoine, painted in 1789.