Joseph Chalier lived here....

 In Lyon, rue de la Bourse, "at the sign of the Grand Tambour", Joseph Chalier once resided - imaged posted on X by Paul Chopelin  26.02.2025.

Marie-Antoinette biopic - Season 2

 The second season of the blockbuster TV series Marie-Antoinette, written by Deborah Davis, and staring  Emilia Schüle and British actor Louis Cunningham, airs on Canal+ on February 17, 2025, and on PBS on March 23, 2025.  Promised soon on the BBC.

Dumas - "Black Devil" (film)

 French director Helmer Ladj Ly is to write and direct a new film Dumas: Black  Devil.

Art Institute of Chicago acquires Horvitz collection

Art Institute of Chicago announces the gift of the Horvitz Collection of French Old Master paintings and drawings, the subject of a recent exhibition.

Fashion victims (Video)

The National Arts Club in New York presents a talk by Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (2015).  

Fifty years of the "Voltaire Room"

This January the Voltaire Foundation blog marks the 50-year anniversary  of the "Voltaire Room", in the basement of the Taylor Institution in Oxford, which houses the collection of 18th-century books bequeathed by Theodore Besterman.

New UK Puy du Fou theme park

Puy du Fou has launched a consultation for a new £600m UK theme park to be sited near Bicester in Oxfordshire. The planning application is to be submitted in the summer, and if approved, the park could be built by 2028/29.

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.

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).

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.

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. 

400 years of the Palais-Royal (exhibition)

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