Fashion of the Enlightenment expo.

 The Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Montmorency is holding an exhibition on Enlightenment fashion, which runs from 5th April to 26th October.

The Choiseul snuffbox - unpacked

A lecture by American historian Meredith Martin, posted on Youtube on 12th May, explores  wider themes suggested by the "Choiseul Snuffbox" (acquired by the Louvre in 2023).

Watteau at the British Museum

The  British Museum is currently holding a free exhibition of its extensive collection of Watteau drawings. The exhibition runs from 15th May to 14th September.

À la table de Voltaire (Exhibition)

 The exhibition  "À la table de Voltaire" runs at the Château de Voltaire at Ferney, from 8th May 2025 to 4th January 2026.

The Martyrs of Orange

 On 11th May Avignon's Archbishop François Fonlupt and neighboring bishops will mark the 100th anniversary of the beatification of the Martyrs of Orange — 32 religious sisters guillotined in July 1794  for refusing to renounce their faith.

Napoleon letter auctioned

 A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 was sold by Osenat on 27th April for €26,360.

Remembering the abolition of slavery in the Grand Est

An exhibition at the Musée Schoelcher in Fessenheim, running from 27th April to 11th May 2025, commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Grand Est regional initiative which forms part of the UNESCO sponsored Memories of the Abolition of Slavery (Mémoires des Abolitions de l'Esclavage).

New Biography of Maria-Theresa

Richard Bassett's Maria Theresa Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment is published by Yale University Press is on 25th February.

Maisons de plaisance (exhibition)

 The exhibition "Pleasure houses in the Parisian countryside from Louis XIV to Napoleon III" runs at the  Museum of the Royal Domain of Marly, from 11th April to 31st August.  

Artists and Models - BBC vintage docu-drama

BBC4 is currently repeating the classic 1986 series Artists and Models, directed by Leslie Megahey, which dramatises the careers of David, Ingres and Gericault.

Comte d'Angiviller (book)

A study  of Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller (1730–1809),  director of the Batîments du Roi under Louis XVI  is published on 15th April.  The authors are by Monelle Hayot and Antoine Maës (in French)

The Revolutionary press

The Communist for 27th March features an article by Jonathan Hinckley on French Revolutionary journalism, one of a series which discusses the development revolutionary press.