Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 14-31-2150

Collection consists of notes and early material concerning medieval French literature, Italian literature, Le Philosophe and the early 18th century, Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4636

Documents, manuscripts, letters, chapbooks, engravings, photographs, drawings, offprints, and clippings providing detailed documentation of French political, legal, economic, and social history from the 16th to early 20th century, especially focussing on local government administration and civil law from ca. 1790-1810.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 29-2-3679

Includes correspondence, publications, reviews and subject files concerning Habicht's international work in nutrition and epidemiology and with the World Health Organization.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 3481

Personal and official correspondence; autobiographical notes and diaries; medical reports concerning French Navy personnel; photographs; diplomatic reports; archaeological, botanical, and ethnographic accounts concerning Southeast Asia and its people; and documents pertaining to the Tonkin expedition (1873) led by Francis Garnier, in which Harmand participated, including numerous maps and drawings, some by Harmand, reports and journals, and a genealogical table of the Vietnamese royal family Nguyêñ. Speeches, military intelligence reports and maps, and contemporary copies of the Annamite Proclamation of June 8, 1883, and the Ultimatum of the Convention of Hué (1883) with Harmand's commentary; also included are reports concerning political, economic, and social conditions and a proposal for establishing a French telegraphic line; letters, which Harmand acquired while consul in Bangkok, to M. Blancheton, an earlier French consul to Siam, from the French trader and explorer, Jean Dupuis, who was also a member of the Garnier expedition, and notes detailing the development of French interest and influence in Southeast Asia (author, unknown, n.d.) are included. Additional diplomatic documents consist of photographs and dispatches concerning military affairs and cultural traditions in India (1885-1890); a photograph album and dispatches both sent and received while Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan (1894-1906);

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 6460

Printing equipment and supplies.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4711

Letters, receipts, and other documents addressed to or received from officials in the Régie des poudres et salpêtres in Paris and the departments and districts of France, and saltpeter manufacturers, chiefly relating to gunpowder production. Other topics covered include Parisian politics, the state of the French economy, the shift to paper currency, and dissatisfaction among the workers.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4611

The Lafayette Collection contains materials by, to or about Lafayette and his family, with family documents extending back to 1245 and through the death of Georges Washington Lafayette in 1849. The series "Medals and Coins" covers a century and a half, up to 1931. The collection includes the oldest existing letter from Lafayette (1772), long missives he sent to his wife from America during the Revolution, other letters he wrote while imprisoned in Austria (1792-1797) and during his 1824-5 trip to the USA; texts of Lafayette's speeches, his commentary on public events, material compiled for inclusion in his memoirs, financial statements ; many letters from foreign correspondents on the progress of liberal causes in their countries, including letters from leaders of the Italian revolutionary movement; notes concerning the Belgian revolution, letters and documents on his involvement in the Italian and Polish revolutions, and documents concerning the management of family business affairs, including the management of the family estates. Some of the more remarkable documents were put on display for the exhibition "Lafayette, Citizen of Two Worlds" (October 2007-May 2008), whose electronic version is accessible online at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4712

The Lavoisier Collection contains materials by, to or about Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier, née Paulze, with documents extending back to 1598 and through the death of Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier in 1836. These documents, dating mostly from 1766-1834, relate to Lavoisier's scientific work, and the Académie des Sciences, but also to his involvement in Old Regime taxation in France's Ferme Générale, and in the Régie des Poudres et Salpêtres. Also included are notes and correspondence by Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier. Many documents relate to Lavoisier's estates, mostly about Lavoisier's acquisitions of "Biens Nationaux", in Taillefontaine (France).

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 6957

Letters to Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius, covering the period 1841-1956

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Collection Number: 6532

Various Medieval manuscript fragments and objects.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4616

Papers of Charles Nodier, a French librarian and author who was associated with the Romantic movement.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 8552

French Revolution period caricatures mainly concerning the three estates of France, the nationalization of church property, privileges of the clergy and nobility, despotism, the constitution of 1791, and the political process.

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Collection Number: 4603

Business correspondence, accounts, statements, receipts, vouchers, deeds, transcripts of transactions, and notes, mainly written or collected by the personal or family treasurers of the Comte d'Artois (including his reign as King Charles X) and of his grandson, the count of Chambord and duke of Bordeaux. The collection documents the management of the Comte d'Artois's personal and household finances from 1773 until his permanent exile following the July Revolution of 1830, with documents concerning some family estates extending back to 1535. It also documents the management of the Comte de Chambord's personal and household finances through 1855. Most items are from the pre-Revolutionary period (1773-1789), the Restoration (1814-1830), or items concerning the Comte de Chambord (from 1828-1855), including expenses for his education and begging letters received by him or his tutors. Materials from Restoration period include a complete set of annual accounts of the Comte d'Artois's household from 1815-1830.