La Folie XVIIIe

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Un forum de discussion (2005 - 2021) qui réunissait des passionnés du Siècle des Lumières. Ancien Régime - Révolution

@benoitmelancon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:10 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

XVIIIe siècle : bibliographie • 725e livraison • 9 octobre 2026 • benoitmelancon.quebec/xviii/biblio... • #lumières #bibliographie • cc @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @alexandreklein.bsky.social @msonnet.bsky.social

@fabula.org Sep 11, 2026, 12:50 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Francesca Saggini, Dan Poston and Adam Schoene (ed.), Silence in Eighteenth Century Arts, History, and Philosophy https://www.fabula.org/actualites/136396/francesca-saggini-dan-poston-and-adam-schoene-ed-silence-in.html

@lafoliexviiie.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:03 PM

Exposition "Liotard et Marie-Antoinette. Visages sous enquête", au Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève (Suisse), du 3 octobre 2026 au 7 février 2027.
Catalogue aux éditions Scheidegger & Spiess (49 CHF)

www.mahmah.ch/expositions/...

Catalogue de l'exposition "Liotard et Marie-Antoinette. Visages sous enquête" (éditions Scheidegger & Spiess, 49 CHF).
Une étude minutieuse a permis de corriger l'identité attribuée à un portrait. On pensait que le portrait représentait Marie-Antoinette mais c'était en fait sa soeur, Marie-Caroline.

@alicemarples.bsky.social Aug 13, 2026, 3:52 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Genuinely chuffed to discover my book is being stocked by Waterstones and Foyles!

Preorder now - only £43 and released 8th December:

www.waterstones.com/book/the-tra...

www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-tra...

@muddyyork.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:24 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

On this date in 1757, the Toronto shoreline was first detailed on a French map. It identifies the Credit River (Rivière au Credit), the Humber River (R. Toronto), Fort Rouillé on the Exhibition Grounds, and the Scarborough Bluffs (Les Grandes Ecores).

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:19 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Wish I could get to this! URL in the alt #c18 #c18th #18thc

Poster for Lewis Walpole Library symposium on Hogarth: His Art, Life and Times - A Tribute to Ronald Paulson

https://walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/hogarth-symposium-2026

@drgrr.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:33 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

(oui je suis dans une colère noire, alors autant le dire en chansons)

@isecs-sieds.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:42 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Il n'est pas trop tard pour soumettre une proposition de session thématique ou de table ronde pour le Congrès de la SIEDS 2027 à Saragosse. La date limite a été déplacée au 30 novembre!

www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/fr/appel-a-c...

@isecs-sieds.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:40 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

It is not too late to submit proposals for thematic sessions and roundtables for the 2027 ISECS Congress in Zaragoza. The deadline has been extended to November 30!

www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/calls/

@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:12 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Excited to speak about *Gulliver’s Travels* and scotomaphobia (fear of sight loss) at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century-Studies Research Seminar, University of York. I look forward to being among eighteenth-centuryists en masse! Thanks for the invitation CECS colleagues.

The Fear You Had for Your Eyes: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver's Travels
1726)
Dr Declan Kavanagh
University of Kent, D.Kavanagh@kent.ac.uk|slide

@funkyplaid.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:42 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Our new JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series launches Tue, 13 Oct at 5pm UKT with a discussion about academic publishing with @dparrish0.bsky.social (JST) and @siobhanmup.bsky.social (MUP). Make sure to bring your questions, tips, and anecdotes!

Full programme: jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

@drgrr.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 10:35 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

#HistoireMixte #RVH2026 L’atelier pédagogique de @assomnemosyne.bsky.social propose de réfléchir à la place des femmes dans le commerce maritime européen au XVIIIe s.
@lsilmelda.bsky.social @rdvhistoire.bsky.social @ulkrampl.bsky.social @pemorel.bsky.social @osasica.bsky.social

« JE M'EN VA BIENTÔT DEVENIR NEGOSIENTE ».
LES FEMMES DANS LE COMMERCE MARITIME
EUROPÉEN AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Marie-Lise FIEYRE Professeure d'histoire-géographie, docteure en histoire
Véronique GARRIGUES Professeure d'histoire-géographie, docteure en histoire
Vendredi 9 octobre
17H45 - 19H
INSPÉ - Salle 23

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 6:19 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Hubert Robert, fantasy landscape (1775), Musées royaux, Brussels #c18 #c18th #18thc

View of a fountain and elevated colonnade with trees and figures

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 9:33 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

That painting you’ve always assumed is in the Louvre but isn’t! Jacques-Louis David’s Assassinat de Marat (1793) in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels #c18 #c18th #18thc

Marat, naked in his bath holding a letter from his assassin, Charlotte Corday. There is a single life-wound in his chest; the weapon lies beneath Marat on the floor

Detail of the letter: ‘du 13. juillet, 1793. Marie anne Charlotte Corday au citoyen Marat. il suffit que je sois bien malheureuse pour avoir Droit a votre bienveillance’

Detail of the letter and the box that stands beside the tub, on the top of which there is an inkwell and quill pen and an assignat. On the side of the box: À MARAT / DAVID. /L’AN DEUX’

@londonmikmaq.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:37 PMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

A poster for my October lecture in Toronto!

Poster for “Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History” lecture, featuring a painting of Joseph Brant in regalia, event info, and speaker Dr. Robbie Richardson, University of Glasgow.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:17 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Sir William Beechey, The children of Sir Francis Ford giving a coin to a beggar (1793), Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc

A thin young beggar takes a coin from the rather nervous-looking daughter, dressed in pink and white with a matching bonnet. Her brother , in a red suit with trousers and a large black hat with a black ostrich plume, stands between them with a questioning gaze at the beggar. A spaniel looks up at the poor boy

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:17 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Turner, self-portrait (1799), Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc

The young artist portrays himself with a steady gaze. His hair is short and looks quite grey. He wears a dark coat, loosely fastened grey waistcoat, white chief and loosely tied cravat. Too-shiny gilt wood frame, purple wall.

@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:04 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour.

@alaintruong.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:27 AMReposted by @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social

Vase à décor d’étoffe nouée, Chine, dynastie des Qing (1644-1911), règne et marque de Qianlong (1736-1795). Porcelaine à décor d’émaux famille rose ; 20,6 × 10 cm. Paris, musée Guimet © GrandPalaisRmn (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier

www.alaintruong.com/2026/10/le-s...

@lafoliexviiie.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:02 PM

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