Judith Miller discusses a series of scandals that linked French politics to the arts in the 1770's and 1780's. As the monarchy weakened, audiences at theater, opera, and painting exhibitions seized on each innuendo. One of the Louvre's paintings on display at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia was involved.
Judith A. Miller (Associate Professor, Department of History, Emory University) is the author of Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and the coeditor of Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (Manchester University Press, 2002) with Howard G. Brown; and Gender, War and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation