News from Port-Royal des Champs

 A article by Alexandre Marque on Actu.fr ,17.08.2025, features the National Museum of Port-Royal des Champs, at Magny-les-Hameau (Yvelines) which reopened in July of this year.

Politics and history at Puy du Fou

The Right-wing vision of French history represented by the Puy du Fou theme park  is discussed by Hélène de Lauzun in an article published in The European Conservative on 18th August.

Revolutionary music and song

The Library of Congress blog publishes a  guest blog post from Case Western University doctoral student Ellen Sauer Tanyeri on the musical background of the French Revolution with reference to material from the Library of Congress collections.

Jean-Joseph Mounier - Revolutionary

Posted on Age of Revolutions on 11th August:  Francesco Giosuè explores the career and reputation of the Revolutionary Jean-Joseph Mounier.

Historical Association French Revolution course

The Historical Association advertises a new short course, "The French Revoluton - not just a revolution in France" to begin in September-December 2025.

Voltaire translated - the Lisbon earthquake

Clive Scott publishes a new critical translation of Voltaire's  "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (1756),  reviewed by Nicholas Cronk on the Voltaire Foundation blog, (post of 01.08/2025)

"Aux armes citoyennes!"

"Aux armes citoyennes!",  a new documentary by Émilie Valentin and Mathieu Schwartz on the place of women in the French Revolution, was broadcast on Arte on 5th July. 

Greuze at the Petit Palais

The exhibition "Painting Childhood", dedicated to the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, will run at the Petit Palais this autumn, from 16th September to 25th January 2026.

The French Revolution - by John Hardman

John Hardman's new book The French Revolution: a political history is published by Yale University Press on 12th August.

Secret Paris

The website "Paris Secret" has some well-illustrated features in English on less-known Parisian haunts, among them the Passage Saint-André (07/07) and the Café Procope (25/07)