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.