Iris de Rode

Iris de Rode (born in the Netherlands) is a Dutch historian, specialised in the French aid in the US War of Independence. She won the Prix Guizot . She studied at University of Paris 8, and taught at Sciences Po in Paris, from 2013 to 2022.

She was a fellow at the University of Virginia, Mount Vernon, and the American Philosophical Society.

Discovery In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, Iris de Rode uncovered previously private archives containing the correspondence of a pivotal figure in the US War of Independence: the Marquis de Chastellux.

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