#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 2018, Geneviève Callerot finally accepts the légion d'honneur for her and her family's wartime efforts in the French Resistance.

She and her family helped over 200 people escape occupied France. She had previously refused the honour until it included her family.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 #FrenchHistory #ThrowbackThursday

#OnThisDay, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better. She doesn't.

The painting was done in the hours before her execution by guillotine on 17 July.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #FrenchHistory #ThrowbackThursday

A little #FrenchHistory as background during the riots: (edited from #Wikipedia)

Did you know that 1200 years ago as #Rome fell, the #Christian world was nearly conquered by the #Islam World?

The Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large #Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe during the #EarlyMiddleAges.

In #AD800, the #Frankish king #Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by #PopeLeoIII in an effort to transfer the #RomanEmpire from the #ByzantineEmpire to western Europe.

Sadly, not a complete list ...

10 Evil People In #FrenchHistory 🇫🇷
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8VWUKqogT4

#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Learn more about her rise, and fall, here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons @histodons

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time. Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #FrenchHistory #VotesForWomen

My latest blog post:
Observe The Absinthe Drinkers
https://reginakammer.com/absinthe-drinkers/
#ArtHistory #Absinthe #Painting #19thCenturyHistory #FrenchHistory

#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament, demanding the right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions, that the education of girls be based on the same principles as those of boys, that women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.

Her demands are refused.

#WomenInHistory #FrenchHistory #Histodons #LibertéÉgalitéFraternité

Grey Eminence by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1873.

Context: depiction of François Leclerc du Tremblay, right-hand man of Cardinal Richelieu.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #FrenchArtist #19thCentury #19thCenturyArt #Academicism #AcademicArt #HistoryPainting #FrenchHistory #GreyEminence #Palace #Staircase

Reception of Le Grand Condé at Versailles by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1878.

#ClassicArt #Art #PublicDomain #FrenchArtist #19thCentury #19thCenturyArt #Academicism #AcademicArt #Painting #HistoryPainting #FrenchHistory #LouisXIV #Versailles #Palace #RoyalCourt

#TodayInHistory The Battle of Eylau begins in 1807 between Napoleon's Grand Armee and the Imperial Russian Army at Bagrationovsk, as the French army initially smashed the Russian defenses, however the arrival of the Prussian corps, managed to salvage the situation.

#frenchhistory #france

#TodayInHistory The Royal Navy under Alexander Cochrane, seizes the island of Guadeloupe in 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars, the final French colony in the Americas, as the British take control over the Carribean.

These colonies were often the refuge for privateers who preyed on British trade routes.

#frenchhistory

This is cute. The army of Saint Louis (Louis IX of France) departing from Aigues-Mortes escorted by angels (1248), Seventh Crusade, engraving by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) from History of the Crusades by Joseph-Francois Michaud (1767-1839), 1888 edition.

#History #Mastodon #Funny #FrenchHistory #France #Weird #Cute #Funny #Histodons #Histodon #Historical #Art #Photography #ArtHistory #Thursday #Friday #Historian #WeirdHistory #Metal #MetalHistory #Book

#TodayInHistory Napoleon Bonaparte leads the French army to victory over a combined force of Russia-Prussia at the Battle of Brienne in 1814, though he narrowly escaped being captured by the Cossacks, in one bloody battle, that saw 6000 casualties on either side.
#frenchhistory #napoleon

#TodayInHistory Louis XVI, the last king of France, before the Revolution is executed by guillotine in 1793, after being accused of treason by the National Convention, at what is now called the Place de la Concorde in Paris, effectively ending the monarchy.

#france #frenchhistory #frenchrevolution

#TodayInHistory The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process in 1839, so named after Louis Daguerre, where a sheet of silver plated copper was polished to mirror finish, treated with fumes to make it light sensitive and exposed to camera.

#daguerrotype #frenchhistory

If you are interested in French history, I recommend you read this article on the history of the Paris Commune (1871):
"Women at the barricades"
https://flip.it/XKA0XA

#FrenchHistory #FrenchGenealogy

The chants of "Kill the Jew" during the trial, was what led a journalist Theodor Herzl to establish the Zionist Congress, where the demand for an independent Jewish state, was raised for the first time.

Till the Dreyfus Affair, France was seen as a refuge for Jews, with it's more liberal, tolerant outlook,compared to the prevailing antisemitism in most of Europe then. The event brutally exposed the racial fault lines in France.

#frenchhistory #zionism

#TodayInHistory Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his military rank, after being accused of treason in 1895 and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Devil's Island. The incident known as the Dreyfus Affair, would in a way lead to the rise of Zionism.

Dreyfus was a senior Jewish officer in the French army accused of selling secrets to the German Army. The trial, bought into fore, the prevailing anti- Semite sentiment in France, as the fault lines came out in the open.

#frenchhistory

#TodayInHistory Charles the Bold is defeated and killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, as the state of Burgundy, one of the most prosperous in Europe, is dissolved and becomes part of France, while the Low Countries would become part of the Habsburg Empire.

#frenchhistory