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19th-20th Century Miscellaneous
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Material in folders 1-5 came to Cushing Library in an untitled three-ring binder. Material in folders 6-24 from a binder with the handwritten spine title "Misc. Rev., P. Meurice etc. 2001," with note on verso of front cover: "Edits at back have been entered 9/01." Material in folders 25-34 from a large unsorted archival box.
24/1: Relation d'une Avanture Extraordinaire (1752).
24/2: Requete du Cure de Fontenoy, au Roy (1745); Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Aides et Finances de Dauphine, Rendu Toutes les Chambres Assemblees….(1763).
24/3: Le Ministre de la Justice aux Juges & Accusateurs public des Tribunaux criminels, Juges & Commissaires nationaux des Tribunaux de District, & Juges des Tribunaux de Commerce (1793).
24/4: N. Tresse, ed., La France Dramatique au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle, Choix des Pieces Moderns (1852); Magasin Theatral. Choix de Pieces Nouvelles, Jouees sur Tous les Theatres de Paris. Theatre de la Renaissance, L'Ecole des Jeunes Filles (circa 1841).
24/5: A Son Altesse Royale Madame Regente, possible legal counter-suit by Jean la Ralde, colonel and defendant, against Sir Pierre Guillaume Montade and Sir Nicolas Gilbert, plaintiffs, and Sir Jacques Masson, respondent, 11 May 1732.
24/6: Two letters by Roger Reboussin, artist, 1911.
24/7: Letter by Pierre Tiondaie [sic?], Undated; Letter by Louis Boylisue [sic?], 1907; Letter by Catrein Albeidnigh Thym [sic?], 1891.
24/8: Letter by Georges Herelle (b. 1848), translator, Undated
24/9: Citoyen Segur aine, "Tant pis et tant mieux," manuscript poem, Undated; "Epitre aux jeunes-gens," unsigned poem, Undated, with manuscript note signed Harcourt de Montesquiou.
24/10: Fragment diary 1751-1753, paginated 303-325!
24/11: Letter to Comte Anatole de Montesquiou, Undated; Renault to Comtesse de Montesquiou, 1835; Montguyon to Comtesse de Montesquiou, 1848; Letter by Bocher, Undated; Son or daughter to Comte Anatole de Montesquiou, 1826; Terullac [sic] to M. le Duc, Undated, mentions Anatole; Unsigned fragment, 1825; Unidentified letter, Undated, mentions Anatole de Montesquiou at bottom; Amelot to Montesquiou, 1777.
24/12: Inspector Lamarliere Items: Manuscript(s) financial statement, 1795, mentions Lamarliere, army in Italy; Blegier [sic?] to inspector Lamarliere in Nice, circa 1796; Unknown author to inspecteur de vivres [quartermaster?] Lamarliere in Nice, financial statement, 1795; Letter by Rossolin Greff [sic?], Provence, 1779?; Letter to Lamarliere, 1790s; Dubreuil, on Subsistances militaires ltrhd, to Lamarliere in Nice, circa 1795.
24/13: Maret (sic?) to a baron, Wurzen, [1813]; Cambon (sic?) to Virmes [sic?], Undated
24/14: Francois Paul Meurice(1818-1905, French dramatist and Victor Hugo editor) to Catulle Mendes, 8 ltrs, 1902-1905.
24/15: Poems: "La desolation en balance avec la consolation ain: on doit soixante mille francs [sic?]," unsigned poem, Undated; "Bouquet a ma femme," unsigned poem, Undated; "Sonnetae [sic?]," unsigned poem, Undated; E. Fetie [sic?], "Un matinee de printemps," poem, Undated; "aire [sic?]: de la reine de golconde [sic?]," unsigned poem, Undated; "Stances," unsigned poem, Undated; "Mon coeur d'est pris, dans le Beseau," unsigned poem, Undated; "Carmen," unsigned poem, Undated; "Le Berger constant," with motto [?] "air: dio confiteor," unsigned poem, Undated; "Carmen," unsigned poem, Undated; "air: l'om [sic?] de moi," unsigned poem, Undated
24/16: "Mss. Noels sur les particuliers de la place Royale," manuscript poetry volume, unsigned, Undated
24/17: "Avis," unsigned manuscript, 1778? 13 pp.
24/18: "Adieux d'un Davois aun franeves" [sic?], unsigned poem, Undated
24/19: "Traduction libre de la fin du 1ev chaus de Thompson," [sic] unsigned manuscript volume, Undated
24/20: Letter to or from Lidia Board, 3/13/1819, unsigned; Letter to or from Canning, 1798, unsigned, possibly on translations, war; Letter to Dávalu, signed, 1793; Letter to Mme. Durfort, veuve Prastin, signed, circa 1793.
24/21: Thierry to M. Bouchereau, circa 1793-1798, 6 letters.
24/22: Chaurand Freres & Co., Bureaux de Roulage & Entrepot in Lyon to M. Aptet, 1809; Receipt, 1732; Letter by Frere Lefebvre aine, revolutionary era 1790s.
24/23: Local revolutionary decrees, Ain department, 6 printed pieces.
24/24: Arrests of royal and other officials, printed announcements, [1693]-1755, 6 pieces.
24/25: Typescripts: "Declaration du Roy", doubling the toll of ferries, canals, bridges, paths, etc, for seven years. 1709; Typescript(s) "Edit du Roy," authorizing financial officers to collect specific sums of money, 1709; "Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Aydes et Finances de Dauphine. Qui ordonne aux chatelains et procureurs d'Office du Ressort de la Cour de tenir un Etat des crimes dignes de mort ou de peines afflictives...." 7 September 1750; "Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Aides et Finances de Dauphine," 1764; "Lettres-Patentes du Roi, donnees a Versailles le 30 Octobre 1766. Sur une convention conclue entre le Roi & l'Imperatrice Douairiere, Reine de Hongri & de Boheme, pour l'aboliton reciproque du Droit d'Aubaine & de celui de Retorsion, entre les Sujets respectifs de France & d'Autriche." Agreement between Maria Theresa of Austria (mother of Marie Antoinette) and Louis XV, reciprocally ending the practice of Droit d'Aubaine, by which property of foreigners, upon their deaths, went into government hands and not to their heirs. The year before the proxy marriage of their children, Maria Antonia and Louis Auguste, 30 October 1766; "Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Aides et Finances de Dauphine." Regarding the banning of a religious book, 21 April 1768.
24/26: "Resultat des Memoires de la Demoiselle Cadiere, et Adherands Contre le P. Girard Jesuite," 1731.
24/27: "Lettre Familiere et Raisonnee, a Madame de - sur les principaux Ecrits qui ont paru au sujet de la Bataille de Fontenoy," 1745.
24/28: Certificate appointing a new member of the Swiss Regiment. Signed by Louis-Charles de Bourbon, Count of Eu, grandson of Louis XIV, 24 February, 1760.
24/29: "Quatrieme Memoire a Consulter, pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Ecuyer...." by Beaumarchais. Memoire of legal issues. 1774.
24/30: "Eloge Historique de Parlement de Normandie, depuis Louis XII, jusqu'a nos jours." With Xerox of same, 1777.
24/31: Items originally packed together in one sleeve from the collector: Manuscripts: To Monseigneur from Paradei. 7 October, 1780; To Monseigneur from Paradei. 9 March 1781; List of articles, bound with blue ribbon, written by de Paradei at the Bastille. 15 March, 1781; "Etat General des dettes du S de Paradei." Imprisoned in the Bastille for a debt of 280,000 livres. Also included are listings of his goods, properties, and possessions, itemized, with their value. 15 March, 1781; "Societe Populaire des sans Culottes de la Manche, (ci-devant Gerville)." Blank diploma for the certification of members of the society, with blanks for physical description (nose, eyes, mouth, etc). Signeed by the president and secretary of the society. Undated; "Certificat". Certificate of the Society of Friends of the Constitution, affilliated with the Jacobins. Filled in with member's name and signed by the president and secretary. 19 March, 1792.
24/32: "Second Memoire Justificatif de la Comtesse de Valois de la Motte. Ecrit par elle-meme." 1790.
24/33: "Le Reveil de M. Suleau, suivi du Prospectus du Journal politique que le Public lui demande." By Francis-Louis Suleau, 1791.
24/34: Items originally packed together in one sleeve from the collector: Typescripts: "Analise des Travaux du Departement du Nord, Relatifs aux Dangers de la Patrie...." 1792?; "L'Administrateur remplacant le Commissaire du Gouvernement, pres l'Administration centrale du...." Public notice regarding an escaped murderer, Henri Peyrottes, with details of the circumstances and a physical description. 22 November, 1799; "Extrait des Registres du Directoire Executif". Regarding the military. 9 June, 1799; "Instruction. Adressee par le Directoire Executif, a ses Commissaires pres les Administrations et les Tribunaux...." Highly patriotic revolutionary publication. 30 December, 1795; "Aux Republicains, Composant les Corps administratifs et les Societes populaires." Calling to the public attention the danger that the troops and the country are in, and the ineptitude of those in charge. From Prosper Sijah. 22 May, 1793; "Decret de la Convention Nationale...." Requisition order for horses and equipment for the national calvary. 25 July, 1793; To Le Ministre de la Guerre, Aux Administrateurs des Departemens, from Petiet. Regarding communes who have acted without permission in regard to workers and money. 14 February, 1796; To Le Ministre de la Guerre from Bernadotte. 24 July, 1799.