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Marie Antoinette on Trial: A Contemporary English Account to Read Online
If there’s one thing everyone knows about Marie Antoinette, it’s that unfortunate cake remark (which, of course, there’s no reason at all to believe she ever said). If there’s a second thing, it’s...
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Marie Antoinette on Trial: Your Cut-Out-and-Keep Guide to Reading the Trial,...
To coincide with the English account of Marie Antoinette’s trial I uploaded last time, today I begin a guide to reading what can be a confusing and obscure document, and understanding this fascinating...
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Strange Meetings: The Royal Menagerie at Versailles – an Extract from Vintage...
This month, you’ll find a piece I’ve written in Vintage Script, a new magazine dedicated to all things vintage, historical and retro. What’s most delightful about it is the range of different...
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Marie Antoinette on Trial: Your Cut-Out-and-Keep Guide to Reading the Trial,...
In the first part of this guide to Marie Antoinette’s trial (the account of which you can read in full here) we looked at the course of events that took the royal family from being an essential, if...
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Marie Antoinette on Trial: Your Cut-Out-and-Keep Guide to Reading the Trial,...
There aren’t many things I’m good at doing if I’m suddenly woken up from sleeping. Operating a pair of trousers is a challenge, walking in a straight line a chore, and conducting a meaningful...
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Marie Antoinette on Trial: Your Cut-Out-and-Keep Guide to Reading the Trial,...
In the last part of the guide to Marie Antoinette’s trial, I looked at the way she dealt with the completely unexpected and totally secret interrogation which was sprung upon her two nights before the...
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Théroigne de Méricourt: ‘The fatal beauty of the revolution’. Part One.
If the Austrian Emperor’s interrogator, François de Blanc, hadn’t already heard so much about the revolutionary prisoner, Théroigne de Méricourt, it’s unlikely a man like him would have believed much...
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Théroigne de Méricourt: ‘The fatal beauty of the revolution’. Part Two.
When we left Théroigne de Méricourt at the end of part one, she was beginning to sense a new energy in the streets of Paris in the spring of 1789. Like so much of social and political life at the...
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How the Revolution exposed the dark side of the art of Johann Zoffany
A few weekends ago I went to the Royal Academy of Art’s exhibition (sadly now closed) on 18th century painter Johann Zoffany (1733-1810). Zoffany is largely known for his ‘conversation pieces’,...
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Film Review: A Royal Affair
Film producers, as a species, are notoriously risk averse creatures, which is why it's always a special joy when a film that doesn't have dollar signs written all over it slips through the net. This...
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