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Illusions of Power: The Diorama and the Royalist Press in Restoration Paris

Following the restoration of the French monarchy in 1815, Paris became the focus of a symbolic struggle among competing political factions. When it opened in 1822, the Diorama—a new and immensely popular form of visual spectacle—assumed an important but ambiguous place in this contested cultural environment. In this article, it is argued that writers in the royalist press, often thought to be uninterested in modern visual culture, came to see the new attraction as a flexible viewing space that could be used to shore up monarchical authority in the city. The article also explores the strategies these writers used to appropriate the Diorama, which included linking it to royal ritual, and generating royalist readings of its pictures and technological effects.