The Flood - new film

 A new film on the end of the French monarchy, "The Flood" ("Le Deluge")  by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, opened the  Locarno Film Festival in Milan, on 7th August. 

David Andress - Videos & podcasts

The BBC's History Extra podcast and YouTube channel has published a short discussion of the guillotine by David Andress (Video of 18th July 2024).

A Rameau opera reborn

The lost opera “Samson" by Rameau, with libretto by Voltaire, has been recreated by conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Claus Guth and was performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July (video below)

Olympic reflections

In an online article in the August edition of Rare Book Monthly, Thibault Ehrengard comments on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and what it revealed about France's complex relationship with the Revolutionary past.

Saint-Aubin at the Met (Exhibition)

 The Metropolitan Museum announces an exhibition "Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin", which will run from 26th September to 4th February 2025.

Imagination in the Age of Reason (Exhibition)

 The Cleveland Museum of Art is to hold an exhibition, "Imagination in the Age of Reason", from 28th September to 2nd March 2025.