Due to the success of the exhibition, Caumont will close exceptionally at 7 p.m. on Saturdays 7, 14 and 21 March.
Conference
Parisian celebrations in the 19th century
Saturday, May 23, 2026Conference presented by Sophie Doudet
From revolutionary celebrations to national holidays, from celebrations of life's major milestones to popular or aristocratic entertainment, from opera to café concerts, from balls to country outings, painting reflects the festivities and celebrations of 19th-century men and women. What does the pictorial representation of celebrations tell us about the major political, social, and aesthetic changes of the century? How does it reveal the tensions that ran through it between order and disorder, liberating orgies and codified social rituals, tradition and modernity?
Introduction of the speaker
Sophie Doudet
Sophie Doudet is a lecturer in French literature at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, where she has been teaching general culture, literature, and the history of arts and ideas since 2001. She has written biographies of Winston Churchill, André Malraux, Madame de Staël, and Abbé Pierre in Gallimard's “Folio biographie” collection. She is the author of young adult novels published by Scrineo on Rimbaud, Churchill, Michelangelo, and Da Vinci. Finally, she participated in the creation of the exhibition “Camus Citoyen du monde” in Aix-en-Provence in 2013.
