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

How Lafayette loved his American friends, and how they have loved him in return!  Here are some notes and links for the major American Lafa...

In contrast to La Grange, the Château de Chavaniac in the Auvergne, Lafayette's birthplace museum, has been open to the public for m...

Château de La Grange-Bléneau La Grange-Bléneau is the foremost site in France with Lafayette associations. The 14th century manor i...

On 11th December 2007 Sotheby's in New York sold a Society of the Cincinnati medal which had  belonged to Washington and later to Lafay...

Here are some pictures of Houdon's Seated Voltaire, the beautiful centrepiece of the Musée Voltaire at Les Délices in Geneva, which I wa...

The Musée de la Préfecture de Police in Paris can be visited for free and has some interesting 18th-century material.  The museum was origi...

During his period in Paris as secretary to the English ambassador Lord Hertford  between 1763 and 1766  David Hume was lauded by fashionab...

This striking painting from the National Gallery of Scotland by Sir William Quiller Orchardson dates from 1883 and captures a dramatic...

In 1889 the tower of the Bastille once more loomed (briefly) over Paris... . The Universal Exhibition of 1889, which commemorated the...

« J. Jacob, né à Charmes, âgé de 122 ans, d’après nature en 1789 lorsqu’il fût présenté au Roi » Watercolour and gouache, 15cm x 11 cm h...