Bob Blackman
@1789revolution.bsky.social
Historian of the French Revolution. Currently interested in rumors circulating in Paris in June 1789.
Hear me out: What if Marie-Antoinette refused to associate with Mme. du Barry at the court of Louis XV because the young princess didn't want to get caught up in a kingdom-wide sex-trafficking ring?
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Hear me out: What if Marie-Antoinette refused to associate with Mme. du Barry at the court of Louis XV because the young princess didn't want to get caught up in a kingdom-wide sex-trafficking ring?
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Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
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[FETE DES MORTS] Aujourd'hui c'est la fête des morts... Auguste Comte avait lui aussi envisagé une "fête universelle des morts" - prévue quant à elle le dernier jour de l'année - dans son système public de commémoration.💀
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
[FETE DES MORTS] Aujourd'hui c'est la fête des morts... Auguste Comte avait lui aussi envisagé une "fête universelle des morts" - prévue quant à elle le dernier jour de l'année - dans son système public de commémoration.💀
Seen one day in Paris:
September 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Seen one day in Paris:
My first attempt to cut a 17,000-word chapter draft for an edited volume resulted in me adding 529 more words. The contractual limit on the chapter's length is 8,000 words. Help!
September 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
My first attempt to cut a 17,000-word chapter draft for an edited volume resulted in me adding 529 more words. The contractual limit on the chapter's length is 8,000 words. Help!
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1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
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2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
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Delighted to share vol. 12 of French History & Culture is now published!
Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons.
All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons.
All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
French History and Culture. Volume 12
2025 Volume Editor: Briony Neilson Title Page Table of Contents David Garrioch, Immigrant clockmakers in eighteenth-century ParisLeon Hughes, “There will no longer be a woman as concierge”: Female …
h-france.net
July 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Delighted to share vol. 12 of French History & Culture is now published!
Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons.
All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons.
All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
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Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️
June 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️
20 June 1789 was a magical day. Defying the king's order that they not meet, deputies of the Third Estate walked to a convenient indoor tennis court and swore an oath to meet wherever they had to so they could fulfill their mission: writing a proper constitution for France.
June 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
20 June 1789 was a magical day. Defying the king's order that they not meet, deputies of the Third Estate walked to a convenient indoor tennis court and swore an oath to meet wherever they had to so they could fulfill their mission: writing a proper constitution for France.
For some reason, I can't help but think of the Réveillon affair of April 1789. How did that work out for the king, anyway?
June 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
For some reason, I can't help but think of the Réveillon affair of April 1789. How did that work out for the king, anyway?
June 9, 1789 was a relatively quiet day in Versailles. Jacques Necker had proposed a compromise to reconcile the Third Estate and Noble deputies who had blocked the Estates General from doing business. The Nobles had flatly rejected it. Some Third Estate deputies saw an opportunity.
June 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
June 9, 1789 was a relatively quiet day in Versailles. Jacques Necker had proposed a compromise to reconcile the Third Estate and Noble deputies who had blocked the Estates General from doing business. The Nobles had flatly rejected it. Some Third Estate deputies saw an opportunity.
I've been away for a few months. Did I miss anything?
February 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I've been away for a few months. Did I miss anything?
I've been thinking about how to increase my book sales. What if I write a joint biography of Robert E. Lee and Marie Antoinette, in which I reveal their secret love affair and how Abraham Lincoln ruined it by informing Louis XVI, which led to Lee's defeat at Gettysburg?
May 28, 2024 at 5:06 PM
I've been thinking about how to increase my book sales. What if I write a joint biography of Robert E. Lee and Marie Antoinette, in which I reveal their secret love affair and how Abraham Lincoln ruined it by informing Louis XVI, which led to Lee's defeat at Gettysburg?
Yes, I was late to work this morning. The cat had jumped into my lap. What was I supposed to do?
April 12, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Yes, I was late to work this morning. The cat had jumped into my lap. What was I supposed to do?
I know this is a bit late. I wanted to say how much I enjoyed seeing everyone at the SFHS at Hofstra University in mid-March. Such a wonderful conference. Many thanks to everyone involved in putting that gem together.
April 2, 2024 at 12:54 AM
I know this is a bit late. I wanted to say how much I enjoyed seeing everyone at the SFHS at Hofstra University in mid-March. Such a wonderful conference. Many thanks to everyone involved in putting that gem together.
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Interested in Haiti, slavery, film or video games? I have a zoom talk coming up at the LSU Center for French/Francophone Studies, March 8, 12 pm CST, on Slave Revolt on Screen. Open to the public! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 9, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Interested in Haiti, slavery, film or video games? I have a zoom talk coming up at the LSU Center for French/Francophone Studies, March 8, 12 pm CST, on Slave Revolt on Screen. Open to the public! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Coming up to spotlight the work of grad students in French history - hosted by yours truly! Please spread the word - proposals due by 2/25.
February 8, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Coming up to spotlight the work of grad students in French history - hosted by yours truly! Please spread the word - proposals due by 2/25.
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Hey, French historians! The @sfhs.bsky.social will have a virtual Grad Student Research Showcase before the annual meeting & I'll be hosting! Send a proposal to sfhs2024hofstra@gmail.com by 2/25. The event will take place 3/3. Grad students, pls consider submitting - & advisors, share with students!
February 5, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Hey, French historians! The @sfhs.bsky.social will have a virtual Grad Student Research Showcase before the annual meeting & I'll be hosting! Send a proposal to sfhs2024hofstra@gmail.com by 2/25. The event will take place 3/3. Grad students, pls consider submitting - & advisors, share with students!
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SFHS Supports our Colleagues at Manhattan College.
To find out more, read our announcement: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
To find out more, read our announcement: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
January 31, 2024 at 7:30 PM
SFHS Supports our Colleagues at Manhattan College.
To find out more, read our announcement: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
To find out more, read our announcement: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
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Le fou rire m'a pris... 😂
January 24, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Le fou rire m'a pris... 😂
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grim news as devastating as it is scandalous, shared by @davidavrombell.bsky.social on the other site
Jeff Horn -- a leading historian of 18th c/Revolutionary France, economic history and industrialization -- has been laid off by Manhattan College
Jeff Horn -- a leading historian of 18th c/Revolutionary France, economic history and industrialization -- has been laid off by Manhattan College
January 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
grim news as devastating as it is scandalous, shared by @davidavrombell.bsky.social on the other site
Jeff Horn -- a leading historian of 18th c/Revolutionary France, economic history and industrialization -- has been laid off by Manhattan College
Jeff Horn -- a leading historian of 18th c/Revolutionary France, economic history and industrialization -- has been laid off by Manhattan College
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It's Epiphany, which means it's time for Cuddling Kings in Medieval art
January 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
It's Epiphany, which means it's time for Cuddling Kings in Medieval art
Send a French historian to Legoland…
December 28, 2023 at 2:54 AM
Send a French historian to Legoland…
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The Routledge Handbook of French History is published TODAY...
Here: taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Or here: routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Here: taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Or here: routledge.com/The-Routledg...
December 22, 2023 at 2:49 PM
The Routledge Handbook of French History is published TODAY...
Here: taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Or here: routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Here: taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Or here: routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Wow, just had a negative experience with Harry & David. Did you know their Blueberry Pancake Mix has IMITATION blueberries in it, with natural and artificial flavoring? I'm only taking to the internet because their customer service was so terrible--and there's no email address!
December 10, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Wow, just had a negative experience with Harry & David. Did you know their Blueberry Pancake Mix has IMITATION blueberries in it, with natural and artificial flavoring? I'm only taking to the internet because their customer service was so terrible--and there's no email address!