https://www.laviezine.com/550145/100-fascinating-facts-about-france-unveiling-the-wonders-of-a-captivating-nation/ 100 Fascinating Facts About France! Unveiling the Wonders of a Captivating Nation! #EiffelTower #FactsAboutFrance #France #FrenchArt #FrenchCountryside #FrenchCuisine #FrenchCulture #FrenchFashion #FrenchHistory #FrenchLandmarks #FrenchLanguage #FrenchRevolution #FrenchRiviera #FrenchTraditions #FrenchWine #LouvreMuseum #Monet #Notre-DameCathedral #PalaceOfVersailles #Paris #PlacesToTravel #Renoir #VanGogh #WesternEuropeDestinations

Interesting juxtaposition of everyday life, revolution, and state violence in an early 20th-century short by film pioneer Alice Guy. Gender, class, and respectability also figure in this tale, which features a nonchalant summary execution.
#barricades #revolution #FrenchHistory #OldFilms #history #gender #stateviolence
https://youtu.be/jALA_G6n5-E

Had so much fun presenting on this yesterday at the University of Auckland. Great group, great questions. #histodons #Frenchhistory #history

This talk next week (April 26, 6-7 UK time) should be of interest to many #histodons!

Amy Livingstone will give her Inaugural Lecture as Head of the Lincoln School of Humanities on "Finding Ermengarde: Researching the Life of a Medieval Countess."

Although she was recognized by her peers as influential and important, Countess Ermengarde (c.1070-1147) has been left out of the history of medieval Europe. This lecture will explore her accomplishments, such as co-ruling Brittany with her husband and adult son, her generous patronage and support of the church, her travel to the Holy Land – where she built a church, and her friendships with some of the most influential individuals of the 12th century. As well as discussing Ermengarde and her experiences, this lecture will address the scholarly process of finding Ermengarde.

To attend (in person/online), register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-professor-amy-livingstone-tickets-598252197427

#medieval #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory

Notre Dame - work in progress. 👍

Shocking to see the extent of the damage with your own eyes. 😳

#notredame #restoration #frenchhistory

An American from 1833 commenting on how much glass there is in Paris. I love his metaphor: "the frequent glass realizes the idea of every one's carrying a window in his bosom." #FrenchHistory #nineteenthcentury #histodons

A Paris celebrity named "Jack Hankey" once owned a famous collection of erotic books.

i'll say no more.

#histsex #FrenchHistory

It's amazing to think of Book Binders years ago using this equipment to make books in this cute little town of Mantmorllion,France
#FamilyHistory
#Ancestry
#FrenchHistory
#BookBinding
#France

This beautiful Chenoncleau Chàteau was a hospital in WW1 caring for over 2,225 injured soldiers.
#history
#frenchhistory
#ww1
#chàteau

Illustrations from the magazine "L'Illustration" for the Exposition coloniale internationale 1931 in Paris.

This issue of the magazine is a great resource that I found in our library and will discuss with my students tomorrow in the seminar on the history of Morocco.

@jonathanwyrtzen has based his chapter 2 in "Making Morocco" on the structure of the Moroccan pavilion - very interesting reading, very well done! Looking forward to the discussion in the seminar!

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501704253/html?lang=de

@histodons @islamicstudies #islamicstudies #colonialhistory #moroccanhistory #frenchhistory

Illustrations from the magazine "L'Illustration" for the Exposition coloniale internationale 1931 in Paris.

This issue of the magazine is a great resource that I found in our library and will discuss with my students tomorrow in the seminar on the history of Morocco.

@jonathanwyrtzen has based his chapter 2 in "Making Morocco" on the structure of the Moroccan pavilion - very interesting reading, very well done! Looking forward to the discussion in the seminar!

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501704253/html?lang=de

@histodons @islamicstudies #islamicstudies #colonialhistory #moroccanhistory #frenchhistory

@VancityKai @fifilamoura

This is a great article from the "Le Code Noir to the New Black Codes" It describes superbly & precisely how the principles/ mechanisms of slavery/ oppression/ discrimination develop & continue. A must read!

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Blackfediverse #BlackHistory #History #BlackDispora
#USHistory #FrenchHistory

https://kaichang.typepad.com/zuky/2021/03/from-le-code-noir-to-the-new-black-codes.html

The next piece was a lot of fun to write - thinking about the relevance of the French Revolution today, while rescuing Robespierre from the stereotypes thrown his way over time. https://ageofrevolutions.com/2022/08/08/thoroughly-modern-maxie-robespierres-relevance-for-democracy-today/ #histodons #FrenchRevolution #Frenchhistory

This was one of my favorite publications of the year - esp. because I started working on this project in the 1990s & it took a lot of LIFE for me to have time and wisdom to publish it properly. "Whiteness, Gender and Slavery in Enlightenment Le Havre: Marie Le Masson Le Golft’s Self-Fashioning as a Femme des Lettres" #histodons #Frenchhistory #gender #historyofscience #historyofrace https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0048.002?view=text;rgn=main

I'm also including conference papers and talks I did that are in open access. For the Society for French Historical Studies's Annual meeting #FrenchHistory, I organized a session on #Haiti Beyond Saint-Domingue. Here's the video, recorded for H-France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWRnydnXkw #histodons

Here's a year end 🧵 of what I published this year, on topics from the #Enlightenment and #slavery, to #film from #Haiti. The first piece was in memory of my late French colleague Marcel Dorigny, in appreciation for his contributions to thinking about #race in #FrenchHistory: https://journals.openedition.org/lrf/6965 #histodons @histodons

This week’s offering with Garrett van Dyk about the development of food culture. I had a great time with this guy! #earlymodern #histodon #foodhistory #Frenchhistory #newcastleau #history https://newbooksnetwork.com/commerce-food-and-identity-in-seventeenth-century-england-and-france

RT @DrJulieHardwick@twitter.com

An immersive week of #frenchhistory for grad students - this time in Austin after Princeton and Lyon. Dates are May 7-14. Please share widely! https://twitter.com/parisnoire/status/1607814205796655112

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrJulieHardwick/status/1607985622035337220

Hey, #earlymodern, #Frenchhistory What are we reading this semester break? I’ll start.

An extraordinary important book where the long intro is a superb micro history - a don’t miss for #earlymodern #histsci #frenchhistory #histmed #c17 #genderhistory and listen to Cathy talk about it in a New Books Network interview here for a taster!
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-childbirth