Paris Gay Pride 1982 A selection of four films from the years of gay liberation from the...
France
Explore France through its monarchies, revolutions, empires, republics, wars, art, political conflicts, and cultural influence. These histories follow the people and institutions that shaped the country while tracing its changing place in Europe and the world.
The Wanderings of a Comet, from Another World, 1844 / Internet Archive With its dreamlike inversions and kaleidoscopic...
Portrait of Edgar Quinet by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu / National Portrait Gallery Examining the connections Quinet made between...
Liberty leads the people / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the artistic expressions of the French Revolution. Edited by...
Marianne is the embodiment of the French Republic. Marianne represents the permanent values that found her citizens’...
The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495, reaching Scotland in 1497 and Russia in 1499. By...
The start of the 19th century was a time of hostility between France and England, marked by...
Considering how Britain’s intellectual, political and creative circles responded to the French Revolution. By Dr. Ruth MatherPostdoctoral Research...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
The archives of American artistic production, letters, journals, and their contemporary circles in France can be brought...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against...
Scenes of July 1830, a painting by Léon Cogniet alluding to the July revolution of 1830 / Wikimedia Commons...
Medieval teaching scene. gallica.bnf.fr / BnF Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living inBritain also...
Detail from depiction of a Formosan funeral, featured in George Psalmanazar’s An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704)...
“We should make sure that the revolution is transmitted!” /Â CC-BY-NC 2.0Â doc(q)man By Dr. Frederick C. Schneid /...
Departure of the Conscripts in 1807, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808 / Musée Carnavalet via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ambrogio...
Queen Marie-Antoinette, about 1789, Pierre-Michel Alix after Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun. Etching and wash manner, printed in...
Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Jacques-Louis David, 1804. Oil on canvas, 23 2/4 x 19 1/2 in....
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas, 165 x 64.96 cm (Royal Museum of Fine Arts...
Sainte-Cecile Cathedral overlooking the Tarn River, Albi, France. Midi- Pyrénées / Encyclopedia Britannica By Dr. Friedrich Edelmayer...
Etruscan and Massalian amphorae excavated at Lattes, France. Photo: Michael Dietler A look at wine’s integral role in culture and...
Writing table, about 1670–75, French. Oak veneered with ivory, blue-painted horn, ebony, rosewood, and amaranth, with drawer...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Horses disembarking from Norman longships, Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, embroidered wool on linen, 20 inches high (Bayeux...
Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c.1790, oil on fabric / Carnavalet Museum Lecture by Dr. John Merriman...
Prise du Palais des Tulleries, by Jacques_Bertaux, 1793 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Robert Schwartz E. Nevius...