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Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… Abstract Jacques Necker, finance minister of France under the Old Regime (1777-1781) and then the revolution (1788-1790), was known for much more than his keen ability to mobilise credit. Thought to be an unwavering … opinion to show how the revolution ultimately shifted the terms of public opinion as a form of political sociability in French politics. People > Politics Concepts > Publicity Keywords Public opinion Third Estate French Revolution Public sphere revolutionary politics Political sociability Jacques Necker, a protestant banker from the …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed … American Revolution ( An American Tale , 1786) and, after learning about the absolutist policies of the Bourbons from a French couple who had been victims of that regime, for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… public meetings, and political dinners. A description of the contested reputation of taverns in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Tavern Sex trade Prostitution Public meeting French Revolution Radicalism Taverns provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Keywords Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats … Britain: he wrote, but did not publish, the vitriolic Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), in which he defended the French Revolution in the wake of the Terror; in the same year, he wrote Adventures on Salisbury Plain , a poem of social …

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Travel / Art and Literature ]

… son autobiographie. People > Travel People > Art and Literature Keywords Women portrait studio Salon Travel aristocracy French Revolution emigration England napoleonic era Fille du peintre de pastels Louis Vigée, sœur aînée d’un littérateur … britanniques qu’elle livre dans son autobiographie. … Women … portrait … studio … Salon … Travel … aristocracy … French Revolution … emigration … England … napoleonic era … Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun …