Friday, 11 July 2025

We the Revolution (game)

 The 2019 video game We. The Revolution is currently available on GOG for the bargain price of £6.59.  Hours of entertainment ...(well, sort of!)

Thursday, 10 July 2025

New Revolutionary Paris app.

 The City of Paris has recently launched an English version of its"Parcours Révolution" app., a self-guided walking tour of the Revolutionary sites of the capital, with text by Guillaume Mazeau and Jean-Claude Caron.  

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Tourzel snuffbox acquired for Versailles

 The Société des Amis de Versailles confirms its acquisition of the snuffbox containing a portrait of Marie-Antoinette taken by Louis XVI with him on the flight to Varennes.

Monday, 7 July 2025

David exhibition at the Louvre

The Louvre announces a forthcoming major exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of Jacques-Louis David's death. The exhibition will run from 15th October to 26th January 2026.

Sunday, 6 July 2025

Robert Darnton podcast

A new Brussels Signal podcast (1st July) features a discussion by Robert Darnton on "The French Revolution and the Information Age".

Saturday, 5 July 2025

Versailles acquires Vigée Le Brun portrait

 On 16th June 2025 the Palace of Versailles exercised its right of pre-emption to acquire a pastel portrait of the Count of Provence, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, dated 1776.

Friday, 4 July 2025

Lafayette (article)

 The Collector website celebrates the 4th July with a feature article (by Kassandre Dwyer) on the life of Lafayette.

Commemorating Franco-American friendship

4th July 2025: This year it is particularly well to remember the joint legacy of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" which unites France and the US!

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Comte de Rochambeau's 300th birthday

 The America Revolutionary Institute  hosted an event to mark the 300th birthday of the comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French's 1780 expeditionary force sent to aid the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Black history in France

The Nogi media channel website publishes an informative summary article by  Mathieu N'Diaye on "Black people in France before abolition", 23rd June 2025 (for the English version).