Professor of History Christine Adams and her co-author/sister Tracy Adams, were interviewed for a New Books Network podcast about their book, "The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnes Sorel to Madame DuBarry" (Penn State Univ. Press, 2021). The podcast, recorded in September 2021, was published on Oct. 21, 2022 and can be heard at this link: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-creation-of-the-french-royal-mistress
Professor Adams also gave an invited lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 11. Her lecture, "Fashion and Politics: Elégantes and Merveilleuses under the Directory and Beyond,” stems from her current book project on the cultural and political impact of the Merveilleuses, a group of fashionable young women in late eighteenth-century France.
