Rodama: a blog of 18th-century & Revolutionary France

 [For International Women's Day] By an odd quirk of history, whereas Marie Curie has been awarded the honours of the Pantheon, the body ...

From the Wallace Collection: a beautiful  gold and cornelian sn uffbox dating from about 1775, probably made by the Dresden goldsmith Jo...

Gambling was another of Emilie's passions.  Her quick mind enabled her to calculate chances effectively (though it did not save her from...

Émilie du  Châtelet was well known for her love of fashion, jewellery and pretty things. Voltaire nicknamed her "Madame Pompon-Newto...

I do like waxworks (apart from those guillotined heads). The Château de Breteuil has loads, supplied by the Musée Grévin, including various...

What did Madame du Châtelet look like?  The article on French Wikipedia conveniently gathers together a set of comments on her appearance an...

Lot 16:  Exposition abrégée du système...de Newton On 29th October 2012 there was much excitement when a host of scientific manuscripts...

. http://aura.u-pec.fr/duchatelet/int4.3.html Voltaire's "Petit  théâtre " at the Ch â teau de Cirey looks like ...