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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Box
Title
Mercure de France Weekly Periodical and Proof Sheets, Decrees, Proclamations and Other Official Documents
Date(s)
- 1725-1792 (Creation)
Extent
36 folders
Name of creator
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Scope and content
Material in folders 9-33 came to Cushing Library in a three-ring binder with the handwritten spine title "Arrets, Revolution, class material," with the accompanying note "Entered," possibly meaning that RLD entered descriptions of this material in one of his computer-file bibliographies. Material in folders 34-36 came from one binder titled "Decrees," with the accompanying note "Entered."
32/1-7: Mercure de France, weekly periodical, 1787, with gaps (1 issue per folder).
32/8: Pierre Louys, 21 galley proof sheets for Mercure de France, in a special container with annotation.
32/9-33: 25 printed decrees, laws and other official documents, 1725-1792, in collector's original chronological order.
32/34: Royal proclamation, 1786, 12 pp.
32/35: 10 decrees and royal proclamations, 1768-1792, each printed on one folded sheet.
32/36: 2 decrees, 1791-1792, each printed on one folded sheet.