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Box 5

 Container

Contains 54 Results:

Jean Louis Catherine FRERON, 1719-1776 - 2 ALs, one to his cousin, Mme. Penanreux, and one to "Monsieur"

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 52
Scope and Content From the Collection: Letters, notes, documents, signed fair copies, etc.; approximately 800 items from more than 500 notable individuals, mostly from France, all items in French. All were prominent figures in their fields: literature, archeology, physics, chemistry, the church, theater, music, medicine, politics, and history (the container list has a complete list). While the inclusive dates cover four centuries, much of the material is dated between 1740-1900, many in the style used during the French...
Dates: 1500-1923
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Charles H. Livingston French autograph collection

Eugène FROMANTIN, 1820-1876 - 2 ALs

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 53
Scope and Content From the Collection: Letters, notes, documents, signed fair copies, etc.; approximately 800 items from more than 500 notable individuals, mostly from France, all items in French. All were prominent figures in their fields: literature, archeology, physics, chemistry, the church, theater, music, medicine, politics, and history (the container list has a complete list). While the inclusive dates cover four centuries, much of the material is dated between 1740-1900, many in the style used during the French...
Dates: 1500-1923
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Charles H. Livingston French autograph collection

François de Salignac de la Motte FENELON archevêque de Cambrai, one signed "quittance"

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Receipt for "trois mille livres," payment for three months (January - March, 1694) as tutor to the Duc de Bourgogne, heir to Louis XIV. On vellum. 1 item (2 p.); 18 x 24 cm. 1694.

Dates: 1500-1923
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Charles H. Livingston French autograph collection

Valentin Esprit FLECHIER, evêque de Nimes. 1632-1710 - ALs to Monseigneur (Evêque de St Pons)

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents

Letter dated "Nismes," December 11, 1688, concerning a translation of the New Testament. On paper. 1 item (4 p.); 19 x 26 cm. folded 19 x 13 cm. 1688.

Dates: 1500-1923
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Charles H. Livingston French autograph collection