A Reconsideration of the Meaning of Royal Ritual in Eighteenth-Century France

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Christine Adams

Christine Adams

Christine Adams is professor of history at St Mary’s College of Maryland. Her most recent book, with Tracy Adams, is The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry (Penn State University Press, 2020). She is a 2020–21 American Council of Learned Societies fellow, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Newberry Library fellow (Spring 2021), where she worked on her latest project, ‘The Merveilleuses and their Impact on the French Social Imaginary, 1794–1799 and Beyond’.