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A round-up from 18th-century and Revolutionary France

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Friday, 5 June 2026

Voltaire's heart investigated

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A new TV documentary starring historical anthropologist Philippe Charlier  follows the conservation in 2024 of Voltaire's heart,  which ...
Saturday, 30 May 2026

Abolition of slavery in Revolutionary France

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  In The Conversation ,  28th May: Jeremy D. Popkin discusses his new book, The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Re...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

Noble beasts: hunting in 18th-century French art (book)

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 Noble Beast: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art by Amy Freund is published by Yale University Press, in UK on 9th May
Monday, 27 April 2026

Rothchild porcelain exhibition

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A new exhibition at the Mobilier National (42 Avenue des Gobelins, Paris) showcases 18th-century Sèvres porcelain from the Rothschild family...
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

The duc d'Orléans and the coming of Revolution (article)

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A new open-access article by Damien Tricoire in the Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, dated 26th March, takes an in-...
Saturday, 4 April 2026

Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette at Versailles

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An exhibition marking the twentieth anniversary of Sofia Coppola's film "Marie Antoinette" will run at the Trianon estate from...
Friday, 3 April 2026

The Rest is silence

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 The Voltaire Foundation publishes a post by Joanna Stalnaker, Professor of French at Columbia University on her book  The Rest Is Silence: ...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Louisville's Louis XVI preserved

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After some to-ing and fro-ing, it looks like Louisville Kentucky has finally found someone to give that statue of Louis XVI a makeover (and ...
Friday, 20 March 2026

Marie-Antoinette chocs

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Sortir à Paris  for 18th March has a feature on the Marie-Antoinette "pistoles" one of the first solid chocolates sweets, which wa...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Louis's bedroom at Versailles

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 This spring the Château de Versailles unveils the reconstruction of Louis XVI's bedchamber.
Friday, 6 March 2026

A Day in the 18th century

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A new exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratif s in Paris, running   18th February to 5th July,   recreates "a day in the 18th-centur...
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Marie-Antoinette at the Wallace Collection

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 Marie-Antoinette: An Eye for Beauty is an installation/event at the Wallace Collection, London which runs from 2nd February to 31st March ...
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