Jean-Clément Martin - the Great Fear (new book)

Jean-Clément Martin's new book, La Grande Peur de Juillet 1789, is published by Tallandier on 21st March.

Age of Revolutions

 The open-access journal "Age of Revolutions" publishes an interview with historian Nathan Perl-Posenthal whose book The Age of Revolutions and the Generations who made it was published on 14th March.

Women at the Chapelle expiatoire

On Friday, 8th March, to mark International Women's Day, flowers from the President of the Republic were left at the tomb of Olympe de Gouges at the Chapelle expiatoire in Paris.

Snapchat the 18th century!

Snapchat has launched "8th of March, 8 Women", a new augmented reality experience for International Women’s Day. 

Measuring the Earth

 History Today publishes a free article by Patricia Fara on the French geodesic expeditions in the 1730s, by La Condamine to Ecuador and Maupertius to the Arctic Circle.

Flour wars

 JStor Daily posts an open-access article on the Flour War of 1775 and its relation to the French Revolution.  The research articles cited are also made available free-to-view.