October at the Academe
A quick look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
We all know what the heir of a Regency gentleman or nobleman will do when they grow up: take over the responsibility of leading the family, tending to the estate, and in time, siring his own heirs. But what’s a younger son to do?
If you’ve ever wondered:
- How many sons is too many?
- What counts as ‘work’ for a gentlemen?
- When is an investment not an investment?
- What are the options for a third or fourth son?
Then this is the course for you.
Over two weeks, USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch will take you through this informative course designed specifically to explore the rules that Regency Society had for its men (yes, it wasn’t only the ladies curtailed!), and the expectations upon gentlemen for their adult lives. We explore the four main options available to second sons, and dive deep into real historical examples of how Regency gentlemen navigated this complexity.
Registration closes October 11, 2026
Paris of today is a gorgeous combination of creative civic planning, geography and reverence for history. To visit is to imbibe the freshness of fine architecture mixed with the greenery so vital to a thriving city. To visit also imbues one with devotion so many had to maintaining the necessities to keep people in the metropolitan area fed, clothed, moving, working and living well.
It was not always so.
The transformation of a medieval hub of civilization into a metropolis of beauty and renown occurred over centuries. Sometimes that happened in spurts; others over decades. Sometimes it happened with prudent planning; others by accident.
This course gives you a background in Paris and Parisians from the changes of the first French Revolution’s most violent period from approximately 1791-92 through the upheavals to the end of the Second Occupation of Paris in 1818. Over the decades as politicians changed and mobs attacked people and places, the French changed the looks of the city. The population shifted, shrank and then grew again. Citizens also changed the economy, infrastructure and support services.
Before it was the City of Light, Paris was many other towns. It was a Roman village, the city in the first European union, the city of religious war, the capital of filth and fashion, the city of the Le Rasoir National (the national razor of the guillotine), the city of imperial glory and the city occupied by her enemies in disgrace.
Registration closes October 25, 2026
