Professor Colin Jones lecture: The Duchesse d'Elbeuf and the Arts of Resistance in Paris under the Terror

When: 17 October 2019, 18:00 — 20:00
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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The recent discovery of a series of private letters to a friend (1788-94) from the wealthy dowager duchess of Elbeuf in the course of the French Revolution is the starting point for a broader discussion of how, in the period of censorship and surveillance under the Terror, individuals strove to maintain freedom of expression and develop a critique of government. The lecture will be followed by questions, and a glass of wine.

Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on French cultural history, particularly on the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and the history of medicine. His many books include The Medical World of Early Modern France (with Lawrence Brockliss, 1997), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002), Paris: Biography of a City (2004: winner of the Enid MacLeod Prize) and The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2014). 

All welcome! For more information, please contact Ann Lewis: a.lewis@bbk.ac.uk

Contact name: Ann Lewis