Juliette Reboul
Is the French Revolution really over? Since the beginning of the political campaign for the 2012 Presidential Elections in France, Eva Joly, candidate for Europe Ecologie-les Verts, brought up the theme twice in public debate. [1] On the 14 of July 2011, she created a scandal, by arguing against the militarisation of the National Fest. She then proposed the creation of a Maison de la Revolution Francaise in Paris. Continue reading
Juliette Reboul
Writing about the exhibition Visions romantiques des Cotes de la Manche (Romantic visions of the French northern coastline) in a blog focusing on the eighteenth century is not such a paradox. After all, the Bourbon Restoration to the throne of France in 1815 appears in many respects to be an anachronism. Eighty paintings are displayed in this travelling exhibition (see dates and places below). Few masterpieces, many Pompiers (official art), even though the exhibition’s curators affirmed their deliberate choice of excluding academic painters. Continue reading
