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1845-1848
(Bulk: 1847-1848)
Creator:
Agence France-presse.
Extent: 0.33 linear feet (1 box)
The international news agency Agence Havas, ancestor of Agence France-Presse (AFP) Reuters, was founded in 1832 by Charles-Louis
Havas (1783-1858), who translated reports from foreign papers and distributed them to Paris and provincial newspapers. This
collection consists of 101 lithographed news reports from 1845 to 1848, though most of the reports are from 1847. The reports
focus primarily on economic and political news of the time, specific to Spain, Italy, and France.
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1790-1809
Creator:
Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816
Extent: 0.2 linear foot (1 box)
Annales de chimie is a scientific journal that was founded in Paris, France, in 1789 by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816)
and Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794). This collection contains letters, pamphlets and manuscripts relating to Guyton de Morveau
and his work as a lead editor of the Annales de chimie. Documents include foreign language originals, copy texts, or the actual
printer's copy.
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1897-1914
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
The Belle Époque, dating from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, is described
as a period of optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, and techonological, scientific, and cultural innovations during
the French Third Republic. It is particularly known as an era in which the arts flourished in Paris and other European Francophone
centers. This collection contains programs, publications, advertisements and tickets which document classical music and operatic
performances at a variety of concert venues and music halls.
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1835-1855
Extent: 1 volume
A parchment bound volume spanning from 1835 to 1855 containing handwritten recipes and instructions for varnishes, lacquers,
and dyes.
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1870
Creator:
Brun, Alexandre, active 19th century
Thénot, J. P., (Jean Pierre), 1803-1857, Associated name Extent: 2 volumes (+ 1 envelope)
Two notebooks dated 1870 written in French by Alexandre Brun comprising a treatise on perspective with several figures and
drawings.
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1879-1921
Creator:
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. This collection
consists of letters from Camille Saint-Saëns to various correspondents. A great many of the letters are to Princess A. Bibesco.
Other addressees include Edouard Dern, Marianne Eissler, Richard Pohl, a Monsieur F. Hueffer, a Monsieur Alboize, Dandelot
and Sardou.
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circa 1824-1836
Creator:
Sallard, Claire, -1896
Extent: 0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
This collection contains 47 notebooks, dating from 1824 to 1836, written by Claire Sallard (circa 1821-1896), which provide
examples of the type of education received by prosperous young ladies in France in the 1820s and 1830s. With a focus on the
skills of literary form, the notebooks contain short stories, moral speeches, diary entries, and a “cahier de bonne conduite”
(a good conduct notebook).
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1694-1791
Creator:
Compagnie de Commerce de Lorraine.
Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Compagnie de Commerce de Lorraine was founded by Duke Leopold of Lorraine in 1724, with Regard d'Aubonne as director general
and Claude Regnault among its other directors, and dissolved by the 1760s. One purpose of the company was to protect commerce
in the duchy from the French economic crisis precipitated by the inflation and crash of the stock of John Law's Compagnie
des Indes. These 31 files include a few printed documents pertaining to the establishment of the Compagnie and numerous account
calculations and documents concerning the liquidation of the Compagnie.
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between 1770-1780
Extent: 1 volume
Volume containing lecture notes in French by an unknown student probably between the years 1770 to 1780. The lecture course
in materia medica was taught by Alphonse Vincent Louis Antoine Leroy.
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1792-1891
(Bulk: 1830-1870)
Creator:
Du Rouvenoz et Cie.
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Collection of various documents, mostly from 1830-1870, relating to a distillery located in Annecy, France.
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1838-1891
Creator:
Maindron, Ernest, 1838-1908
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Documents relating to the Académie des sciences (Paris) in the mid- to late-1800s, including letters to Ernest Maindron from
members of the Académie.
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1881-1929
(Bulk: 1899-1900)
Creator:
Kane, Florence Bayard, 1868-1943
Extent: 0.25 linear feet (1 box)
A collection of playbills and other ephemera of a young lady's travels in Europe, particularly Paris, collected by Florence
Bayard Kane, daughter of the prominent Kane family of Philadelphia, primarily between 1899 and 1900.
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1822-1880
Creator:
Millaud, Albert, 1844-1892
Mirecourt, Eugène de, 1812-1880 Raspail, F.-V. (François-Vincent), 1794-1878 Raymond, Michel Extent: 1 volume
François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878) was a French scientist and politician known for his opposition to the French monarchy
and for his scientific work in the fields of histochemistry, cellular theory and the microbial theory of disease. This volume
of Opuscules divers, dating from 1822 to 1880, consists of twenty-one items, including pamphlets, notes, and newspaper clippings
about François-Vincent Raspail.
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1711-1714
Creator:
Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1665-1746
Extent: 2 boxes
The collection comprises 169 items dating from 1711 to 1714, with one item from 1702. Most of the correspondence consists
of letters addressed to or drafts written by the abbé François Gaultier, a French diplomatic agent stationed in London who
moved in the circles of the Tory opposition. Of 88 letters by Torcy in the collection, 79 are addressed to Gaultier. Most
of these are entirely or partially in cipher. Original keys for coding and decoding are in the collection.
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1667-1678
Creator:
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 1619-1683
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)
Jean Baptiste Colbert served as the French minister of finance under King Louis XIV and achieved a reputation for his work
of improving French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from bankruptcy. The letters deal with a variety of subjects
ranging from trade regulations, licensing, taxes, and imprisonment to simple requests for the expedition of certain orders.
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1775-1824
Creator:
Lingaud, Jean-Baptiste, b. 1760
Extent: 4 boxes (+ map case drawer)
The collection comprises 492 items dating from 1775 to 1824: among these are letters, municipal documents, police records,
trial transcripts, and some of Lingaud’s personal papers. The pre-Revolutionary documents mainly include bureaucratic correspondence
between Limoges and the court in Versailles and Paris. After 1792 there emerges a vast number of name lists and secret surveillance
records as well as arrest warrants for aristocrats and their sympathizers. Most notable in this part of the collection are
letters and documents from the Revolutionary Committee and the Surveillance Committee.
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circa 1810
Liqueurs spiritueuses pour la table, ou d'agrément, dout l'aromate ou parfum se prend dans les matières végétables odorantes
qui suivent
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Oversize volume written in French comprising a treatise on making liquors. The detailed and densely written volume was created
by an unknown compiler around 1810.
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circa 1920-1930
Creator:
Cowette, Demerise, 1877-1853, Compiler
Extent: 1 volume (+ 11 leaves)
A volume of eighteenth-century French songs from the Acadian region of Kennebec, Maine compiled by Demerise Cowette between
the years 1920 to 1930.
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circa 1806
Memoire sur l'Inde: memoire sur l'insurrection de l'Inde angloise, rédigé par le révérand Père Benoît, missionarire à la résidence
de Poonah ...
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Lévis, Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de, 1764-1830
Extent: 1 volume
A volume comprising a manuscript portion from volume 2 of Lévis work entitled Les voyages de Kang-Hi, ou nouvelles lettres
chinoises. The manuscript was written in French around 1806 and is probably in Lévis hand.
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1840-1879
Creator:
Delavault, Herminie, 1824-, Author
Extent: 2 volumes
This collection contains two volumes of poems and ballads titled Mes vers by Herminie Delavault spanning the years 1840 to
1879. Written in French, the works also include verse created for the musical compositions by Delavault's husband Germain-Eugène
Delavault (1814-1892). In addition, volume two contains a French translation of John Gay's libretto for Handel's Acis and
Galatea.
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circa 1918
Creator:
Cazes, J. E., Artist
Extent: 1 box (9 folders + 1 oversize folder)
A portfolio of fifty-three architectural and interior decoration drawings by J. E. Cazes of Vincennes, France.
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before 1987
Creator:
La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676, Author
Extent: 1 box
Copy of a manuscript work regarding the theological status of the Jewish people.
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before 1786
Recueil de quelques préparations, galeniques et chimiques: avec quelque recettes utiles et curieuses, pour servir aux pharmaciens,
chirurgiens, aux personnes charitables, et aux curieux. Le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs, taut anciens que modernes, [?]
en 1758, augmenté ... corrigé et transcris à Huningue en haute Alsace; relie à Basel en Suisse, chez M. Samuel Haag, dans
le courant du mois de Mars 1786
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An eighteenth century, leather-bound volume with a fish scale pattern spine stamped in gold and a label that reads "recettes
diverses." The volume contains a collection of pharmaceutical recipes providing remedies for various ailments on 140 pages.
Each page has a black ink double ruled border. A majority of the recipes have explanations for usage and dosage
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1827-1843
Extent: 1 volume
A sketchbook by an unknown artist containing sketches and drawings of buildings, monuments, and architectural elements around
Paris and Northern France spanning from 1827 to 1843.
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1832-1845
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