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[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

s.l., s.n., [v.1750].

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2500 €

Original manuscript in French.
This anonymous manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684 -1766), the holder of the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
The teaching of the Montpellier doctor was very successful. Astruc dictated his courses and on several occasions these texts were published without the author's name and, poorly copied, distorted the thinking of the learned doctor. I
t was only at the end of his life that Astruc considered it necessary to write down his courses to avoid forgeries.
However, his teaching on children's diseases was never published. Only a "pirate" edition had appeared in English in 1746.
Our course reproduces the structure of the few manuscript copies that we know of, notably that of the Kottek manuscript of 1747, which had been the subject of a modern facsimile (Stalkine, 1980).
However, we will note some differences in the text; for example, in our manuscript, Astruc proposes the end of the first age of childhood at two and a half years (instead of three and a half years in the Kottek manuscript).

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

[Nancy], [Buc'Hoz], [1762-1770].

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7000 €

Original manuscript of an unpublished botanical treatise by a learned scholar from Nantes.
It presents botanical concepts as well as the classifications of Linnaeus and Tournefort. This manuscript, nearly 200 pages long, is written on the verso of the plates from Buc'hoz’s Flore Lorraine.
All plates are also annotated with details on plant names, their classification according to Linnaeus and Tournefort, and their medicinal uses—together forming a true pharmacopoeia.
These 187 plates were intended to illustrate Buc'hoz’s Traité historique des plantes qui croissent dans la Lorraine et les Trois-Évêchés, published in ten octavo volumes between 1762 and 1770. The plates, originally issued separately in installments and designed to be folded and bound in octavo, are gathered here in a single folio volume.
Buc'hoz, known for the beauty of his plates, had solicited financial support from fellow countrymen and botany enthusiasts for the production of these engravings. Thus, at the bottom of almost every plate, one finds the coat of arms and name of the sponsor who funded it.
Maurice Mahot, the author of this manuscript, sponsored plate 152.
While biographical information on Maurice Mahot “the elder” (1745–1810), a royal counselor, civil and criminal judge at the présidial, alderman (1777), and deputy mayor of Nantes (1779), offers little indication of an interest in natural sciences and botany, the same cannot be said of his son, Maurice Mahot “the younger” (1774–1842), a doctor of medicine and scholar who published several books on medicine and lexicography.
The annotations by the son—a physician—on the plates funded by the father—a botany enthusiast—explain the numerous pharmaceutical and medical recipes found in the work.
Another collector has left his name on the title page: Silas Boucher de la Ville Jossy, a member of a prominent Nantes family in the mid-19th century.
A fascinating manuscript, still largely unexplored, of exceptional character, both for the beauty of its annotated plates and for its content, which intertwines botanical classification and pharmacopoeia.

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest (de).

Nouveau cours de mathématique à l'usage des ingénieurs officiers d'artillerie.

s.l., s.n., 1730.

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700 €

Handwritten copy of Bélidor's Nouveau cours de mathématiques published in 1725.
Our copy, in very legible handwriting, is dated 1730.
It is accompanied by the 34 plates that illustrated the printed edition of this course. At that time, Belidor was a mathematics professor at the artillery school in La Fère, and this course was intended for student officers. The work was a great success in artillery school circles.

[MANUSCRIT].

Physicae Institutiones.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].

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600 €

Handwritten course in Latin probably given in a Jesuit college (the patronage of St. Louis de Gonzague is repeated many times), in the first half of the 18th century. The manuscript is part of the tradition of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy which was taught in seminaries and theological faculties in the form of a Compendium mixing physics and metaphysics. The first volume is devoted to metaphysics and logic, including the schemata of Aristotelian categories. The second volume, devoted to physics, is divided into four treatises (on the senses, bodies, movement, gravity) and finally a chapter on meteors.

[MANUSCRIT].

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet.

s.l., s.n., [1750].

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200 €

Handwritten copy of Volume II of Madame Fouquet's "Collection of Domestic Remedies," one of the most famous domestic medicine manuals of the 18th century.
It contains various recipes that immerse us in popular pharmacopoeia under the Ancien Régime.

A note on the last page: "Ad usum Adriani Lenglé 1816".

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Histoire des maladies du bas ventre.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1740].

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1000 €

Original manuscript in French.
This manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), who held the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
This teaching on abdominal diseases, from hiccups to hemorrhoids, was never published by Astruc. However, several manuscript copies are known under the title Traité des Maladies du bas ventre.
The medical content of our manuscript is identical to the digitized copies of the BIU Santé (Ms 2116) and the Collège de France (XV 8° 375). Most of the chapter headings are similar, although there are some differences in the structure (some chapters are grouped together, others are separated).
Finally, our copy extends to the question of hemorrhoids, which is absent from the Ms2116 manuscript (present in that of the Collège de France), but omits the question of intestinal worms, which are usually found in this course (present in both aforementioned manuscripts).
On the front flyleaf, the following handwritten ex libris is found: "hic liber attinet ad me Lagilardo" (or Lagilardie?).

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[Dijon], s.n., An 9 [1800].

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500 €

Handwritten course on Mineralogy.
A note at the end of the document tells us that the course was taken under dictation by Vallot in the year 9. At that date Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) was a professor of natural sciences at the central school of Dijon. A naturalist, he touched on all sorts of subjects: botany, zoology, mineralogy, antiquities...
Vallot reviews the different minerals and gives their main characteristics: jasper, chalcedony, gold, petroleum, carbonates, etc.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

s.l., s.n., 1775.

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200 €

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

[MANUSCRIT].

Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].

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500 €

Handwritten copy of a work published anonymously by Pierre Marteau in 1688. Barbier attributes the book to Gratien de Courtilz but adds: "Dubious".

The content is rather discourteous towards the monarchs, of whom inglorious episodes are recounted: the lack of merit of Louis XIII (Richelieu having governed for him), Louis XIV preferring the beds of his mistresses to the battlefields... This doubtless explains why handwritten copies were able to circulate under the cloak of the laughers. In fact, two other similar handwritten copies can be found in public libraries.

What remains is a very pretty manuscript, in a perfectly legible late 17th century handwriting.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

s.l., s.n., [1907].

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4000 €

Original Manuscript by Henri Becquerel.

An interesting manuscript in which the discoverer of radioactivity ponders the nature of matter at the end of his life.
This manuscript, with corrections for printing, was published at the Institut de France after a reading at the session of October 25, 1907.

One of Henri Becquerel’s final works, this manuscript reflects on the revolutionary discoveries that had upended the traditional understanding of matter: the electron (discovered by Thomson in 1897), radioactivity (discovered by Becquerel himself in 1896), and radioactive decay (discovered by Rutherford in 1902).

The long-held notion of the atom as an indivisible, stable particle, as proposed by Democritus, was challenged by these groundbreaking findings. Becquerel pondered this new reality, suggesting that atoms, rather than being eternally stable, might undergo modifications over time. However, the slow pace of these transformations or the rarity of conducive conditions could create the illusion of stability.

The 15 pages offprint will be joined (covers detached).

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].

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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

s.l., s.n., 1886.

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2000 €

Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS.

Lettre à Mr Courtomer.

s.l., s.n., 17 octobre 1733.

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200 €

Letter signed "Louis" (secretary) and countersigned "Maurepas" addressed to Mr Courtomer to notify him of the appointment of Mr Dourville to the position of first brand in his company.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.

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350 €

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1944.

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350 €

First edition.
Work by the very influential editor-in-chief of the NRF in which he proposes "to finally identify some method or key, which will allow us to separate the true from the false".

Pasted on the guard is a handwritten letter signed by Jean Paulhan addressed to Aimé Blanc-Dufour.
Aimé Blanc-Dufour had signed an article "Reflections on Jean Paulhan and rhetoric" in September 1946 in Cahiers du sud, Jean Paulhan responded to it on his relationship to rhetoric.
“Secret society, no doubt. And I believe, in this sense also, that Rhéto holds a secret, touching the relationships between language and thought…”.

CHARLET, Nicolas-Toussaint.

Lettre autographe signée adressé à Regnier.

Viroflay, s.n., 23 juillet 1844.

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150 €

Handwritten autograph letter from Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845) French painter and lithographer to Mr. Regnier Maison de Tableaux at 20 Boulevard des Italians.
Written in July 1844, Charlet says she is weakened but on the road to recovery. There he concluded an agreement on honor with Regnier, a gallery owner, for the distribution of his paintings and drawings but did not want to commit himself to a contract.
This letter does not appear in the correspondence published by La Combe.

[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

s.l., s.n., 1831.

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1200 €

Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)

Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.

GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?].

Cours de géométrie et de trigonométrie rectiligne suivant Mr Genty.

s.l., s.n., 1800.

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600 €

Original Manuscript.
Geometry course certainly given by Louis Genty, who was then professor of Mathematics at the Ecole centrale du Loiret in Orléans. Louis Genty became known in his field for having written a book on Fermat's contributions to geometry and he became a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences in the geometry section shortly before his death in 1817.

[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ].

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris.

s.l., s.n., [circa 1420].

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33000 €

From a follower of the Boucicaut Master.

The painter uses an extensive palette with sharp contrasts, and does not hesitate to use a bright minium red that he contrasts with the blues and greens in the happiest of ways.
The abstract backgrounds and the systematic use of a grassy ground, give to the whole manuscript a beautiful coherence and a great elegance.

Some of the preserved paintings, such as those of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Crucifixion, and St. Margaret, bear witness to the artist's talent and the high quality of this manuscript.

It should be noted that the composition of the The Flight into Egypt is closely mirrors of a Boucicaut composition.

Complete video on request.

[POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée.

Recueils d'Epures.

s.l., s.n., 1837-1839.

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650 €

Collection of drawings, by Jules Thimothé Chauvisé (X 1837 ; 1817-????).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

s.l., s.n., 23 juin 1913.

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20 €

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

s.l., s.n., 15 mai 1929.

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20 €

Autograph letter signed by the Duchess of Uzès (1826-1933) about a charity sale (unidentified recipient).

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace.

s.l., s.n., 22 juin 1848.

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450 €

Rare document signed by Lamartine and Arago.
Draft decree to allocate 10,000 fr to continue the reprint of the Works of Laplace. This had been allocated 40,000 fr in 1842 but the initial estimate having been exceeded, money had to be added to the project.

The document is drafted by the Secretary of the Executive Power Commission and is signed by all the members of this commission: François Arago, Alphonse de Lamartine, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Pierre Marie de St Georges.
Rare testimony of this commission which lasted only for the months of May and June 1848 and which saw the Scientist and the Poet at the top of the French State.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Epures de Géométrie descriptive.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1847].

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200 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

s.l., s.n., 1880.

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300 €

Collection of drawings, by H. Bardonnaut.
For a long time, the Forestry School has depended on the Polytechnic School; it has retained the particularity of having its engineering students draw sketches: Development of maps and architectural models oriented towards the management of water and forests.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1847-49 (2vols).

s.l., s.n., 1847-1849.

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600 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis.

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge.

s.l., s.n., 1 février 1960.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Louis Martin Chauffier (1894-1980) addressed to François Berge (grandsons of President Félix Faure and director of "Cahiers du mois") about a controversy over a film on deportation which will give rise to a chronicle by Louis Martin Chauffier in the Figaro.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 16 septembre 1938.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Georges Goyau (1862-1939) on letterhead from the French Academy addressed to René Berge (his ex-brother-in-law) asking to fill out a form.
We are on the eve of the Second World War and the academician writes:
"The institute was invited to crate its precious objects, to send them far away, at the first alert!".

DANIEL ROPS.

Carte postale autographe signée à François Berge.

s.l., s.n., 18 juillet 1947.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Daniel-Rops (1901-1965) addressed to François Berge (director of "Cahiers du mois") about the proofreading of an article (Daniel Rops must delete a page!).

MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 7 juillet 1924.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

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Manuscripts

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest (de).

Nouveau cours de mathématique à l'usage des ingénieurs officiers d'artillerie.

[MANUSCRIT].

Physicae Institutiones.

[MANUSCRIT].

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Histoire des maladies du bas ventre.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

Original manuscript.Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

[MANUSCRIT].

Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS.

Lettre à Mr Courtomer.

Letter signed "Louis" (secretary) and countersigned "Maurepas" addressed to Mr Courtomer to notify him of the appointment of Mr Dourville to the position of first brand in his company.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

CHARLET, Nicolas-Toussaint.

Lettre autographe signée adressé à Regnier.

[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?].

Cours de géométrie et de trigonométrie rectiligne suivant Mr Genty.

[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ].

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris.

[POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée.

Recueils d'Epures.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

Autograph letter signed by the Duchess of Uzès (1826-1933) about a charity sale (unidentified recipient).

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Epures de Géométrie descriptive.

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1847-49 (2vols).

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis.

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge.

Autograph letter from Louis Martin Chauffier (1894-1980) addressed to François Berge (grandsons of President Félix Faure and director of "Cahiers du mois") about a controversy over a film on deportation which will give rise to a chronicle by Louis Martin Chauffier in the Figaro.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

DANIEL ROPS.

Carte postale autographe signée à François Berge.

Autograph letter from Daniel-Rops (1901-1965) addressed to François Berge (director of "Cahiers du mois") about the proofreading of an article (Daniel Rops must delete a page!).

MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.