Wednesday, 15 January 2025

The Revolution in Lyon (exhibition)

The Departmental Archives in Lyon currently features an exhibition on the Revolution in the Lyon area. "Ruptures et Fondations: La Révolution dans le Rhône et à Lyon" runs at from 20th September 2024 to 23rd March 2025.

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Best of all possible worlds?

 The New Yorker discusses the career of Leibniz on the occasion of two newly published English language biographies, Audrey Borowski’s Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (Princeton U.P.) and Michael Kempe’s The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days (Norton).

Monday, 13 January 2025

Hervé Leuwers on the Revolution (book)

 PUF announce the publication on 15th January of a second edition of Hervé Leuwers's 2020 book La Révolution française.

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Haiti remembers its Revolution

On 1st-2nd January Haiti celebrated its 221st Independence Day in Port-au-Prince.  Haiti is a country with many problems, but the busts of the Haitian Revolutionaries were splendid. 

Monday, 6 January 2025

400 years of the Palais-Royal (exhibtion)

 The Domaine national du Palais-Royal in Paris is currently celebrating 400 years of history with a free exhibition.