The Flood - new film

 A new film on the end of the French monarchy, "The Flood" ("Le Deluge")  by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, opened the  Locarno Film Festival in Milan, on 7th August. 

David Andress - Videos & podcasts

The BBC's History Extra podcast and YouTube channel has published a short discussion of the guillotine by David Andress (Video of 18th July 2024).

A Rameau opera reborn

The lost opera “Samson" by Rameau, with libretto by Voltaire, has been recreated by conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Claus Guth and was performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July (video below)

Olympic reflections

In an online article in the August edition of Rare Book Monthly, Thibault Ehrengard comments on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and what it revealed about France's complex relationship with the Revolutionary past.

Saint-Aubin at the Met (Exhibition)

 The Metropolitan Museum announces an exhibition "Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin", which will run from 26th September to 4th February 2025.

Imagination in the Age of Reason (Exhibition)

 The Cleveland Museum of Art is to hold an exhibition, "Imagination in the Age of Reason", from 28th September to 2nd March 2025.

Robespierre in Britain

The ARBR Amis de Robespierre website publishes an informative and impeccably illustrated article by Marianne Gilchrist on "Robespierre in Britain" (published 06.06.2024; in French and English)

Robespierre's nose

 A video of  Marianne Gilchrist's excellent talk on Robespierre portraits, given in Cardiff in December 2022, has now been posted on the website of the ARBR Les Amis de Robespierre. Super-sleuthing Marianne!

Sèvres Extraordinaire! (Exhibition)

A press release has been published for a major new exhibition of Sèvres sculpture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, which will run from 21th September 2024 to 5th January 2025.

Remembering Alistair Laing

The death has been announced of the art historian Alistair Laing, long-time curator at the National Trust and renowned expert on  French 18th-century painting, drawing and sculpture.

Policing same-sex relations - book and website

A collection of documents on the policing of homosexuality in 18th-century Paris, is published by Penn State University Press. The editor/author is Jeffrey Merrick, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. 

Versailles celebrates the horse (Exhibition)

 A new exhibition, on the role of  horses in  history opens at Versailles to coincide with the Olympic Equestrian events.  Horse in Majesty: At the Heart of a Civilisation will run from 2nd July to 3rd November and features some 300 works displayed in various different areas of the Palace.