Romain Rolland in Clamecy, Nièvre (58)

The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Romain Rolland is in Clamecy.

And this plaque.

A room in the musée is dedicated to Romain Rolland.

An old photo shows, from left to right, Rolland's grandfather Edme Courot's house, Rolland's birthplace, and the former Hôtel de Bellegarde. In 1990 Clamecy acquired Edme Courot's house and his birthplace – the house in which Romain's solicitor father Émile lived with his wife Marie; the Romain Rolland room occupies the original second floor of Edme Courot's house.

Romain Rolland's daughter Marie Romain Rolland donated these items of furniture from Romain's parents and grandparents.

A display of a children's edition of Rolland's major set of novels, the roman-fleuve Jean-Christophe, which ran to ten volumes from 1904 to 1910.

This sketch doesn't even come from the museum, but from an information plaque near Claude Tillier's statue.  Rolland's most famous character Colas Breugnon doesn't even need an introduction to French people.

The novel Colas Breugnon was published in 1919, and is about a ficticious master carpenter from Clamecy in the seventeenth century. Rolland based the short novel on historical researches he made.

The property here comes from Romain Rolland's period in Villeneuve, Switzerland, and they are donations from Marie Romain Rolland. The photo is of Rolland with Gandhi.

Bust by Carlos Velasquez-Espino (1965).

Romain Rolland in Brèves, Nièvre (58)

I think this is the first time that I've come across a church plaque directing me to a grave: in this case that of Romain Rolland, who had family roots in Brèves, and to whose grave against the church there are precise directions.

'ROMAIN ROLLAND

ET SA FEMME MARIE'

Edme Courot in Clamecy, Nièvre (58)

Romain Rolland's grandfather, Edme Courot (1815–1900, was a solicitor in Clamecy on Rue de l'Hospice, the present Rue Romain Rolland. In 1865 Émile Rolland married Edme's daughter, Marie Courot, and his son-in-law started a solicitor's office adjoining that of his grandfather's at 4 Rue de l'Hospice, which is where Romain Rolland was born in 1866. Edme Courot wrote a substantial book, Annales de Clamecy jusqu'en 1852, and formed the Société Scientifique et Artistique in 1876.