French Revolution and Napoleonic Period Manuscripts,1752-1882 (bulk 1788-1815)

Collection Number: 4606

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
French Revolution and Napoleonic period manuscripts, 1752-1882 (bulk 1788-1815)
Collection Number:
4606
Quantity:
1027 items.
Forms of Material:
Original documents, mostly autograph signed letters (ALS).
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Manuscript documents and correspondence, mainly government documents, most of them covering the period 1788-1815.
Language:
Collection material in French


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A diplomat, historian, statesman, and co-founder and first president of Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) was also the first to teach French (and German) modern history at University-level in the United States -- at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Cornell. His lectures were largely based on original documents from his private collection, which form the bulk of this present set of documents. His developed summaries (see, for example, 4606 Bd. Ms. 12 ++, "Lettres de cachet") show both his mastery of the French language, and his pedagogical concerns while building his collection, not a mere private hobby.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Manuscript documents and correspondence, mainly government documents, including 6 volumes of bound manuscripts, concerning mostly the administration of the French government throughout the Revolution, be it at the national level (especially the Comité de Salut Public and the Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance in 1793-5), at the "département" level, or at the local level (esp. Paris and Toulon in 1793-4).
Also included are a 1789 letter by Brissot to the English Abolitionist Society expressing his views on slavery; a contemporary Italian translation of the Testament of Louis XVI (guillotined in January 1793); and the first two drafts of Gracchus Babeuf's "Précis d'un projet de cadastre perpétuel", a technical essay that he wrote in 1787 in response to Calonne's proposal for a general land tax.
Post-revolutionary documents cover a wide range of subjects, such as military and naval history, or the education and sociability of the French elites. Noticeable here are: a letter concerning Menou, a French general who had converted to Islam and married an Egyptian (veiled) woman, 1802; a letter from Napoleon to Berthier containing strategic instructions for the battle of Wagram, 1809; a letter from Fontanes, then "grand master of the University," deriding the idea of a Professorship of Poetry in France (c.1810); a letter from four Napoleon's marshals trying to negotiate a deal on their income-providing "dotations" with the great powers assembled in Vienna, in late September 1814; a letter from Richelieu on "the White Terror," 1815; a statement by Grégoire (1820); and a letter by Nesselrode, given and annotated by A.D. White.
Autograph manuscripts followed by a * come from the Bowe Collection #4624, "Miscellaneous French Correspondence and Documents," given to Cornell by Arthur and Mary M. Dean in April 1976, and now merged with #4606. A couple of documents were purchased and added to the collection in 2008-9 (box 3, folder 31, and box 5, folder 14).
SUBJECTS

Names:
Babeuf, Gracchus, 1760-1797.
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 1736-1793.
Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de, 1745-1837.
Barras, Paul, 1755-1829.
Bonaparte family.
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.
Campan, Mme (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette), 1752-1822.
Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823.
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
Clauzel, Bertrand, comte, 1772-1842.
Custine, Adam Philippe de, 1740-1793.
Dampierre, Auguste Henri Marie de, 1756-1793.
Daru, Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno, comte, 1767-1829.
Dillon, Arthur, 1750-1794.
Fontanes, Jean Pierre Louis de, 1758-1821.
Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otrante, 1763-1820.
Gouges, Olympe de, 1748-1793.
Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831.
Kellermann, François Christophe, 1735-1820.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Menou, Jacques, 1750-1810.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Ney, Michel, 1769-1815.
Pétion, Jérôme, 1756-1794.
Poniatowski, Jo´zef, ksiaze, 1816-1873.
Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de, 1766-1822.
Robespierre, Maximilien de, 1758-1794.
Ségur, Louis-Philippe, comte de, 1753-1830.
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, 1748-1836.
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.

Subjects:
Abolitionists--France.
Abolitionists--Great Britain.
Catholic Church--France.
Finance, Public--France.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Jews--France--History--18th century.
Local government--France.
Military history, Modern--19th century.
Slavery.
France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.

Places:
Egypt--History.
France--Foreign relations--United States.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France--Politics and government--1789-1799.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Economic aspects.
Italy--History.
Paris (France)--History--1789-1799.
Bastille.
Paris (France)--History.
Poland--History--1795-1815.
Provence (France)--History.
Toulon (France)--History.
United States--Foreign relations--France.

Form and Genre Terms:
Caricatures.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Letterheads.
Lettres de cachet.
Seals.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
French Revolution and Napoleonic period manuscripts, #4606. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Many items have interesting allegorical letterheads. NB: the authenticity of a couple of documents (signaled by [?]) is dubious. In addition to the letters (some of them annotated by the collectors or by librarians), many folders contain engraved and lithographed portraits, as well as notes written by collectors or archivists.
Related collections at Cornell include the Ben Grauer, Charles X, Lafayette, Laforte, Lavoisier, and Maurepas Collections, and the Pamphlets, Graphics, Newspapers, and Books components of the French Revolution Collection.

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Autograph manuscripts
Box 1
A-Ber
Box 1 Folder 1
Abrantès, Laure Pernon Junot, Duchesse d' , ALS to [Soult?]
23 Nov. 1834
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves + 8 leaves
ALS with translation plus a second letter with translation. Included are 3 portraits of the Duchesse plus photograph of the house where she lived and 4 leaves of miscellaneous material.
Box 1 Folder 2
Abrial, Comte Andre Joseph ALS to the Prefet of Finistere
3 Sept. 1802
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 3
Ameilhon, Hubert Pascal, to Suard
10 July 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French mentioning Mme de Genlis
Box 1 Folder 4
Andréossy, Comte Antoine, to Barbier du Bocage
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 5
General d'Anglemont, to Alexandre Berthier
19 June 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 6
Angoulême , Louis Antoine, Duc d', to the French Ambassador in London
26 April 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 7
Anthoine, François , to ?
20 Oct. 1777
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 8
Aubernon, Commissaire Ordonnateur des Guerres in Milan, to Latrieux
2 Sept. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 9
Aubert-Dubayet, General Francois, to Lauchere
10 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French plus a second letter with translation. Included is a portrait of Aubert-Dubayet
Box 1 Folder 10
Aubry, Francois
14 Sept. 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French, annotated and signed by Barras, Carnot, La Revellière-Lepeaux, and Reubell
Box 1 Folder 11
Audouin, Xavier, to ?
2 Sept. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 12
Auguereau, Pierre Francois, to the Commissioners of the Executive Directory in Charge of the Department of the Pyrenées Orientales
25 April 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French +a second letter [1796] + a translation + four portraits of Auguereau
Box 1 Folder 14
Aultanne, General d', to Commissaire Ordonnateur en Chef Chambon
14 June 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French plus translation
Box 1 Folder 15
Babad, Father Peter [of the Society of St. Sulpice in Baltimore], to Payne Todd [the man charged with the care of the Madisons' estate in Montpelier, Vt.]
14 February 1819
1 leaf
ALS in French. NB: Babad was the first scholar to teach a Portuguese course in an American University. In 1819 he was trying to raise funds to publish the first Portuguese grammar in the USA.
Box 1 Folder 16
Babeuf, Francois Noël dit Gracchus, to Antoine Lamy
21 Febr. 1791
1 leaf
[Roye] ALS in French: "J'ai la satisfaction de voir que l'Assemblee nationale a adopte la plus forte partie de mon systeme et de mes idees [sur] la contribution fonciere et la contribution personnelle."
Box 1 Folder 17
Babeuf, Francois Noël dit Gracchus, to ?
n.d. [1794?]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 1 Folder 18
Babeuf, Francois Noël dit Gracchus
2 Sept. 1800
1 bd. ms. + 1 bd. ms.
The manuscripts are the first two drafts of a technical essay entitled "Précis d'un projet de cadastre perpétuel", written in 1787 by Babeuf, then a "feudist" in Picardy, in response to Minister Calonne's proposal for a general land tax. The first draft is in the hand of Babeuf but lacks about fourteen pages in the middle of the text. The second draft is in secraterial hand with additions by the author, and it is complete. A greatly expanded version of the work was published in late 1789, the year Babeuf drafted the cahier de doléances for the electors of the bailliage of Roye, demanding the abolition of feudal rights.
Box 1 Folder 19
Bachelu, Gilbert, to Prince Louis Bonaparte
2 Sept. 1800
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, a portrait, and notes
Box 1 Folder 20
Bailly, Jean Sylvain, to the Dames de la Communauté de la Providence
31 Dec. 1789
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and portraits of Bailly
Box 1 Folder 21
Baird, David, , to [Evans?]
May 1817
1 leaf
ALS in English
Box 1 Folder 22
Balland, General, to General Chabran
23 April 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 23
Baraguey d'Hilliers, Louis, to Clarke, Duc de Feltre
2 Sept. 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 24
Barante, Baron Prosper [in his capacity as Préfet of Vendée], to Bigot de Préameneu
12 March 1814
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes on the religious situation in the Vendée
Box 1 Folder 25
Barbaroux, Charles, to a Lady
2 Sept. 1800
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Manuscript in French [2 p.of light verses, for a lady], plus translation
Box 1 Folder 26a
Barbé-Marbois, François de, to "le citoyen Burnel, agent du Directoire executif"*
October 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French. B-M. is requesting a three-months extension of his "sojourn" in Cayenne, where he had been deported on a trumped charge after the "royalist coup d'Etat" of the 18th Fructidor year V (4 September 1797), and where he is now a member of the local government.
Box 1 Folder 26b
Barbé-Marbois, François de, to a forest administrator in Noyon
18 August 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 26c
Barbé-Marbois, François de, to M. ... Portalis
[between 1807 &1815]
1 leaf
ALS in French, making an appointment to see him; plus a portrait of Barbé-Marbois
Box 1 Folder 27
Barentin, Charles de [in his capacity as Président de la Cour des Aides] to the Comte d'Artois
8 May 1788
1 leaf
Document in French [incomplete copy]
Box 1 Folder 28
Baudelaire, François
n.d.
1 leaf
[Paris, Senat] ALS in French. N.B.: A high-ranking civil-servant, François Baudelaire was the poet's father.
Box 1 Folder 29
Beaufort, General, to the Citoyen Dufresnoy
s.d. [1796/97]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 30
Beauharnais, Eugene de, to Clarke, Duc de Feltre
16 January 1814
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 1 Folder 31
Beauharnais, Augusta-Amelie, to Mme Lefebvre
12 August 1829
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 32
Belliard, General Augustin {French Governor of Madrid], to ?
12 June 1809
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 1 Folder 33
Belliard, General Augustin, to Clarke, Duc de Feltre
1813
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter and a portrait of Belliard
Box 1 Folder 34
Benezech, Pierre [Minister of the Interior], to Labarthe
15 August 1796
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter and biographical notes
Box 1 Folder 35
Béranger, Pierre Jean de, to ?
s.d. [1844]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait of Béranger
Box 1 Folder 36
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste, to General Girardon
n.d. [1801]
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Bernadotte, also known as King John XIV of Sweden.
Box 1 Folder 37
Bernard, General, to Mr. King
1829
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 9 leaves
[Washington] ALS in French, plus a second letter, plus biographical notes
Box 1 Folder 38
Berthier, General Alexandre, to General Dumas
1799-1809
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 4 leaves + 6 leaves
ALS in French, plus four other letters, plus portraits of Berthier and biographical information
Box 1 Folder 39
Bertrand, General Henri Gratien, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Bertrand
Box 1 Folder 40
Bertrand de Molleville, Antoine François, to Napoleon I
n.d. [1814?]
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French [petition asking the Emperor to provide him financial support; with an autograph note by the Count de Las Cases] , with a full translation.
Box 2
Bes-Cd
Box 2 Folder 1
Bessières, Jean-Baptiste, to the Préfet de la Seine
31 August 1809
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 2
Beurnonville, Marquis de, to M. d'Hauterive
20 August 1818
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a portrait of Beurnonville and biographical notes
Box 2 Folder 3
Bézard
1794
1 leaf
[Nantes] Document in French
Box 2 Folder 4a
Bigarré, Baron Auguste, to ?
28 May 1814
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 4b
Bignon, Louis Pierre Edouard, to XXX*
2 Oct. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French requesting payment to General Beurnonville and to himself
Box 2 Folder 4c
Bignon, Louis Pierre Edouard [French representative/"chargé d'affaires" in Cracow, Poland] to Maret*
22 April 1813
3 leaves
ALS in French about the military and diplomatic situation in Poland: in particular, Bignon explains the necessity for Prince Jósef Antoni Poniatowski, War Minister of the Great-Duchy of Warsaw and ally of the French, to evacuate Cracow "le 28 de ce mois, [car] les vivres et les munitions lui manquent, l'infanterie n'a pas plus de 60 cartouches par homme, et l'artillerie n'est approvisionnée encore que dans une proportion inférieure" (P. left Krakow on 5th May 1813 and crossed the Polish/Austrian border on 9 May 1813). He writes about the incorporation of the Lithuanian guard into the 1st regiment of Polish lancers, which caused "une sensation défavorable, comme une indication que S.M. ne voulait plus prendre d'intérêt à rien de ce qui concerne la Lithuanie"; finally, Bignon comments on a visit of Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwill to Vienna, and mentions "la réception que nous lui avons faite à Cracovie".
Box 2 Folder 4d
Bigot de Préameneu, Félix Julien Jean, to the "citoyen Guillon d'Assas, ancien jurisconsulte"*
n.d. [1802]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 4e
Bigot de Préameneu, Félix Julien Jean [Minister of Cults] [copy of a circular to the bishops]*
7 December 1808
2 leaves
ALS in French: a solemn Te Deum will be sung in churches after the French victory in Madrid, "sauvée des mains des brigands."
Box 2 Folder 5
Biron, Armand Louis, Duc de Lauzun
22 June 1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves
Document in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 6
Biron, Armand Louis, Duc de Lauzun, to M. de Sartine [Minister of the Navy]
20 July1779
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French [asks permission to cut a tree owned by and destined for the French Navy], plus translation and a portrait of Biron.
Box 2 Folder 7
Blumenstein, C.M.. to the Mayor of Vienne [France]
8 June 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 8
Bochart de Saron, Jean Baptiste, to M. de Villedeuil
28 May 1814
1 leaf + 1 leaf +2 leaves
ALS in French [about the death of the Dauphin], plus translation, and biographical notes
Box 2 Folder 9
Boissy d'Anglas, Francois de, to ?
16 August 1822
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Boissy d'Anglas
Box 2 Folder 10
Bonaparte, Lucien
19 August 1797
1 leaf + 5 leaves
Document in French, plus portraits of Lucien Bonaparte and his wife.
Box 2 Folder 11
Bonaparte, Lucien [in his capacity as Minister of the Interior]
5 May 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 12
Bondy, Comte Pierre de, to the Préfet de la Seine
2 June 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 13
Borghèse, Pauline [née Bonaparte], to the Comte de Lavalette
10 Nov. 1813
1 leaf + 2 leaves + 6 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and portraits of the Princess
Box 2 Folder 14
Bouchotte, Jean-Baptiste
29 July 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Satisfecit delivered to Caporal Philibert in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 15
Bouchotte, Jean-Baptiste
15 September1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Document in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 16
Bouchotte, Jean-Baptiste
29 July 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Satisfecit delivered to Caporal Lefevre in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 17
Botta, Carlo, to his wife Antonietta
13 May 1816
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus biographical notes and a portrait
Box 2 Folder 18
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine, Comte de, to Fontanes
29 August 1808
1 leaf + 3 leaves + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Bougainville and notes
Box 2 Folder 19a
Bouillé, Comte de, to M. de La Tour-Maubourg
5 July 1818
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 19b
Boulay de La Meurthe, Antoine, to M. de Montesquiou*
25 September 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French about "domaines nationaux"
Box 2 Folder 20
Bourdon de Vatry, Marc Antoine, to the "Président de la Commune"
11 March 1793
1 leaf+ 4 leaves + 2 leaves
ALS in French [about a victim of the Terror, Prince Wittgenstein], plus translation, and notes
Box 2 Folder 21
Bourguignon-Dumolard [Juge au Tribunal Criminel], to Lhermine
21 April 1803
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 2 Folder 22
Bourrienne, Louis, to the Director of the Imprimerie Nationale
14 June 1799
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 23
Brissac, Duc de, to M. de Saint-James
2 Febr.1782
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 2 Folder 24
Brissot dit de Warville, Jacques, to James Philips [English Abolitionist Society]
27 June 1789
1 leaf
ALS in English about the necessity to "raise the spirits of your countrymen [with regards to] the abolition of negro trade"; mentions Henry Thornton, Lavallée's novel "Le Nègre comme il y a peu de blancs", and two pamphlets by Brissot enclosed in the letter.
Box 2 Folder 25
Bretagne/Brittany, Remontrances de la Noblesse de
26 May 1788
1 cahier
Document in French [copy]
Box 2 Folder 26
Broussier, General Comte Jean-Baptiste, to Berthier
11 October 1804
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait of Broussier
Box 2 Folder 27
Bruix, Eustache, to the "Citoyen Pottier, negociant"
9 August 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a portrait and notes
Box 2 Folder 28
Brune, General, to the Payeur-général de l'Armée d'Italie
5 March 1801
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Brune
Box 2 Folder 29
Buniva, Inspecteur General de la Santé Publique in Piemont, to the Members of the Institut in Paris
30 Dec. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French [sends 61 volumes containing the minutes of the Société subalpine d'agriculture.]
Box 2 Folder 30
Cabanis, Pierre, to M. Suard
8 June 1803
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 31
Cacault, Adjudant Commissaire, to the Payeur-Général de l'Armee d'Italie
n.d. [1801]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 32
Cadet-Gassicourt, Charles-Louis, to the Commandant de la Force Armée de la Section du Mont-Blanc
16 February 1795
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and note
Box 2 Folder 33
Calon, General Etienne, to the Directeur du Dépôt Général de la Guerre
3 June 1795
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 2 Folder 34
Calonne, Charles de, to the Comtesse de Lowendal
March 1785
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 34a
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis, to Robert*
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 34b
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis, to Lavalette *
30 Oct. 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French re: the delivery and pick-up of the government mail in the absence of the Emperor
Box 2 Folder 34b
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis de, to Clarke, Duc de Feltre*
3 April 1812
1 leaf: "Monsieur le Duc, voici une dépêche télégraphique qui annonce un débarquement [britannique, a Corfou?]sans dire en quoi il consiste. Je prie Votre Excellence de me faire savoir quelle est son opinion... et si nous avons dans les isles des moiens suffisans de résistance."
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 35
Cambon, Auguste, to General Paillard
30 June 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 36
Cambon, Pierre Joseph, to the Procureur-Syndic of Paris
30 May 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 37
Campan, Madame, to Mademoiselle Cochelet, Lectrice to the Princess Louis Bonaparte
4 Februray 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf+ 2 leaves
ALS in French (about one of the Princess' young protegée, and her admission into Mme Campan's school), plus translation.
Box 2 Folder 38
Campan, Madame, to Mme Hottinguer
28 May 1814
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French (about one of the Hottinguers's young protegée, schooled in Mme Campan's institution), plus translation.
Box 2 Folder 39
Canclaux, General Comte, to the Administrateurs des Hôpitaux militaires de Paris
11 July 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 40
Carnot, Lazare, to the Commissaire Ordonnateur en Chef de l'Armée d'Italie
28 May 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 2 Folder 41a
Carnot, Lazare, to ?
1796
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Carnot
Box 2 Folder 41b
Carnot, Lazare, to Fontanes
August 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French: endorsement for a position of medical doctor in the Lycée militaire d'Autun
Box 2 Folder 42
Caroline Bonaparte, former Queen of Naples, to Elisa-Napoléon Bonaparte-Baciocchi, Duchess of Lucca and Princess of Piombino
7 April 1836
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait
Box 2 Folder 43
Carteaux, Jean-Francois, to the Directeurs des Transports in Montpellier
14 July 1793
1 leaf
Document in French
Box 2 Folder 44
Castries, Marquis Charles de la Croix de [Minister of the French Navy], to M. de Crèvecoeur, a.k.a. Hector St. John [First French Consul General in New York]
2 May 1784
1 leaf
ALS in French, about commerce issues, especially the facilities for French boats in New York City, and the French wine exports to the United States of America.
Box 2 Folder 45
Castries, Marquis Charles de la Croix de [Minister of the French Navy], to M. de Roquefort
7 July 1782
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 2 Folder 46a
Caulaincourt, Baron
28 May 1814
1 leaf + 4 leaves
Passport delivered for M. Barral, plus portraits of Caulaincourt
Box 2 Folder 46b
Caulaincourt, Baron, to Baron Bignon*
23 March 1819
1 leaf
ALS in French: Writing from Paris on behalf of Napoleon, whom he still refers to as "l'Empereur," Caulaincourt thanks Baron Bignon for sending him a copy of a work Bignon recently published ("Des proscriptions") containing an homage to Napoleon, and gives him the assurance that Napoleon will get it.
Box 3
Ce-Del
Box 3 Folder 1
General Cervoni, to the Prefet Maritime de Toulon
23 Jan. 1801
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter [also 1801], plus translation
Box 3 Folder 2
General Cervoni, to the Minister of Finance
15 October 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 3a
Champagny, Jean Baptiste de, to Senator Lemercier*
21 March 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French: about the export to Spain of handkerchiefs made in Vendée ("mouchoirs de Cholet")and Bassses-Pyrénées ("mouchoirs de Béarn").
Box 3 Folder 3b
Champagny, Jean Baptiste de*
19 February 1812
1 leaf
Two notes in French dictated by Napoleon and related to the special revenues of the State (domaine extraordinaire, "ce que les Américains ont [r]apporté" [cotton supplies], "ventes de denrées coloniales [colonial goods] qui ont eu lieu en Allemagne", "produits des mines d'Idria [quicksilver mines] qui sont à Venise" etc.) needed to fund the French invasion of Russia (June 1812).
Box 3 Folder 3c
Champagny, Jean Baptiste de, to ?
n.d. [1823?]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 4
General Championnet
1799
1 leaf
Brevet in French
Box 3 Folder 3
Champagny, Jean Baptiste de, to ?
n.d. [1823?]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 4
Championnet, General Jean-Antoine
1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 5
Champollion-Figeac, Jean-Jacques, to M. Delafontaine
n.d. [1820s]
1 leaf
[Bibliothèque du Roi/Ecole royale des chartes] ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 6a
Chaptal, Antoine, to Gaudin*
28 december 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French: a plan to halting the illicit commerce of grain was approved
Box 3 Folder 6b
Chaptal, Antoine {Minister of the Interior], to the Minister of War
25 Oct. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 6c
Chaptal, Antoine {Minister of the Interior], to M. de Salver (?)
25 Oct. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French re: a payment by the Banque de France
Box 3 Folder 7
Charbonnel, Comte Joseph, to Marshall Ney
January 1811
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 8
Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 9a
Chasset, to the Minister of Finance
23 Nov. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 9b
Chateaubriand, vicomte de, to "Madame la comtesse [del Drago?]"*
14 December 1826
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 10
Chaumette, Procureur de la Commune
6 May 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 11
Chaumette, Procureur de la Commune
2 Oct. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 12
Chemineau, Colonel
1811
1 leaf
Document in French
Box 3 Folder 13a
General Clarke, Directeur du cabinet historique et topographique militaire du Directoire
1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 13b
General Clarke, to the "Commission des Petitions"
14 March 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 14a
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre
1810-1815
3 leaves
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 14b
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre, to vice-amiral comte Decrès*
6 September 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French about the geopolitical situation in Europe: "L'Impératrice est arrivée hier [à la Malmaison] à deux heures du matin, fatiguée à ce qu'on m'a dit. Les sentiments qu'elle a fait voir depuis cette guerre avec son Père ont été tels que l'Empereur doit être content. Je ne puis comprendre que l'Autriche, qui désirait l'alliance avec la France à l'époque déjà ancienne du traité de Campo-Formio, puisse s'en départir en ce moment où il doit lui être facile de s'entendre avec nous. On loue ici la modération de l'Empereur avec son beau-père et ses égards délicats envers son épouse... J'aurais bien désiré pouvoir donner à l'Empereur de bonnes nouvelles de l'Espagne..."
Box 3 Folder 14c
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre*
12 Dec. 1816
1 leaf
ALS in French: promotion of Jacques Guilhaumond to the rank of lieutenant
Box 3 Folder 14d
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre*
23 January 1839
1 leaf
"Etat des services [official record of the military service] du Maréchal Duc de Feltre, 1765-1818" [Printed]
Box 3 Folder 14e
Clauzel, Bertrand, comte
April and August 1817
4 leaves
2 ALS in French to William Lee, with typewritten English translations added
Box 3 Folder 15
Clavière, Etienne, aux Directeurs des Postes
1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 16
Cochon [de Lapparent], Charles, to Merean [or Mereau]
1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 3 Folder 17
Cochon [de Lapparent], Charles, to Merle d'Aubigné
1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 3 Folder 18
Colbert(-Chabanais), General Edouard de, to Clarke
16 Febr. 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 19
Colli, General, to "his friend Luciano"
2 Nov. 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 20
Collin de Sussy, Jean-Baptiste, to "the Directeur général des Douanes"
17 June 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 21
Collin de Sussy, Jean-Baptiste, to "the Directeur général des Douanes"
14 Febr. 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 22
Commissaires de la Comptabilité, to Regardin
16 Jan. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 23
Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin, to Bossange, Libraire
May [1824?]
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 3 Folder 24
Cornu, to ?
12 Sept. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 25
Cornudet, Senateur, to the Secrétaire Général du Ministere des Finances
n.d. [1803]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 26
Coussaud, J., to the Payeur Général
1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 27
Couthon, Georges, to the Minister of War
25 August 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation. Couthon recommends the Citizen Pepin, "one of the four brave patriots who denounced the evil-doers [malveillants] of [his] batallion" to the attention of the Minister.
Box 3 Folder 28
Couthon, Georges, to the Commission Générale des Monnaies
4 January 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French. Recommends the Citizen Faucheur.
Box 3 Folder 29a
Craon, Princess of Beauvau-, to Jean-Henri Nederman (Music Instrument Maker and Publisher)
1793?
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 29b
Emmanuel Cretet, Conseiller d'Etat*
17 July 1805
1 leaf
ALS in French: note about "la Caisse d'amortissement"
Box 3 Folder 30
Custine, Adam Philippe de
10 June 1772
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French [certificate, with a significant seal of the Régiment de Rouergue], plus translation, and a portrait of Custine.
Box 3 Folder 31
Custine, Adam Philippe de, to Rochambeau
n.d. (circa 1780)
4 leaves
ALS in French titled "Etats des objets à traiter au conseil d'Administration", containing a long list of supplies, clothing, weapons and equipment, with their estimated cost, for the Régiment de Saintonge, which was selected in 1780 by the Count de Rochambeau to participate in the French expeditionary force to America.
Box 3 Folder 32
Cuvier, Baron Georges, to Mr. Dubernard de la Villette, Pierre
31 August, 1820
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Diplôme de Bachelier ès-lettres, plus a portrait of Cuvier
Box 3 Folder 33
Dabadie, Jean Melchior, to Reverony
2 April 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 34
Daendels, General Herman, to General Van Dam[me]
15 Nov. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 35
Dalberg, Emmerich, to Mr. Bréguet
March 1828
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 36
Dampierre, Marquis de, to the Minister of War
March 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 37
Dampierre, Marquis de, to General Dumouriez
20 August 1792
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, plus portraits and notes
Box 3 Folder 38
Dampierre, Marquis de, to ?
21 Febr. 1788
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 39
Danton, Georges
n.d. [1792]
1 leaf + 5 leaves
Signature, plus portraits of Danton
Box 3 Folder 40
Daru, Pierre Antoine, to General Canelaux
1 Nov. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 41a
Daru, Comte Pierre Antoine, to Joseph Defermon
30 August 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French [endorsed by Defermon], plus a portrait of Daru and biographical notes on Defermon
Box 3 Folder 41b
Daru, Pierre Antoine, to Roger, conseiller de l'Université Impériale*
27 August 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 42
Dauberval, to the Administrateurs de la Gironde
15 Sept. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 43
Dauphiné, Représentants des Trois Ordres de la Province de, to King Louis XVI.
[22 July 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, copy
Box 3 Folder 44
Daure, Jean
23 Sept. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 45
David, Jacques Louis, to ?
14 Oct 1776
1 leaf
ALS in French [authentic?]
Box 3 Folder 46
David, Mme Jacques Louis, to Lemercier
n.d. [early 1800s]
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus sealed envelop, plus translation
Box 3 Folder 47a
Davout, Louis, to Berthier
August 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 47b
Davout, Louis, to his mother*
February 1809
1 leaf
ALS in French: "Ma femme n'a jamais douté que vous ne lui rendiez justice, vous êtes trop attachée au bonheur de votre fils ainé..." signed "le maréchal duc d'Auerstaedt"
Box 3 Folder 47c
Davout, Louis, to Clarke, duc de Feltre*
16 may 1811
1 leaf
ALS in French: placement of officers
Box 3 Folder 48
Debelle, General, to ?
n.d. [1800]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 49
Debry, Jean Antoine, to Charles ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus note
Box 3 Folder 50
Decazes, Elie, to the Minister of Finance
17 October 1817
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 3 Folder 51
Decrès, Denis, to Napoleon I
17 May 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 3 Folder 52a
Decrès, Denis, to the Minister of Finance*
6 April 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French concerning the maritime trade between France and England, and esp. English smugglers. "Le rétablissement de la paix entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne exige une réciprocité d'égards et de bons procédés dont c'est en quelque sorte s'écarter que d'exciter les sujets de cette puissance a des spéculations frauduleuses et prohibées par ses loix... il serait dangereux que le Gouvernement britannique fût informé de la faveur que la République acorde aux fraudeurs anglais. "
Box 3 Folder 52b
Decrès, Denis, to the Préfet of Finistère
9 December 1802
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus a portrait and biographical notes
Box 3 Folder 52c
Decrès, Denis, to the mathematician and astronomer Delambre*
23 April 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French about aerostatic balloons
Box 3 Folder 53
Defermon, to the Minister of Finance
14 June 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 54a
Dejean, Directeur de l'Administration de la Guerre, to Louis Bonaparte
20 Sept. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 54a
Dejean, Directeur de l'Administration de la Guerre, to Louis Bonaparte
20 Sept. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 54b
Dejean, Directeur de l'Administration de la Guerre*
29 March 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French about General Philibert Fressinet "[qui] a tenu dans plusieurs sociétés des propos plus qu'indiscrets et sur l'état de la Grande Armée en Pologne et sur les projets de l'Empereur." Fressinet was declared persona non grata and banned from Paris « pour des propos faits dans un lieu public mais qu’il nia avec beaucoup de constance » (28 avril 1807).
Box 3 Folder 54c
Dejean, Grand-Trésorier de la Légion d'honneur, to the writer Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre*
30 April 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French about the schooling of Virginie de Saint-Pierre at the Maison de la Légion d'honneur
Box 3 Folder 55
Delaborde, General Henri, to General Lecourbe
31 Oct. 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and a note
Box 3 Folder 56
Delacroix, Charles, to the Citoyen Rocquesante
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 57
Delacroix, Charles
1794-1809
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
4 ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 58
Delaunay [topographer], to the Commission des Travaux Publics
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 59
Delessart [?], to the Administrators of the Dpt. of Finistere
9 Jan. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 3 Folder 60
Delessert, Gabriel, to Mr. Galignani
n.d. [1857?]
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and note
Box 3 Folder 61
Deleneufcour, Pierre, to the Minister of Police
1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a biographical note
Box 4
Dem-E
Box 4 Folder 1
Dembarrere, Jean, to Lemercier
20 Aug. 1809
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and notes
Box 4 Folder 2
General Demont, to his Sister
1794
1 leaf + 3 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus full translation, and biographical note
Box 4 Folder 3
Denon, Vivant, to a Lady
n.d.
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus two portraits of Denon
Box 4 Folder 4
General Desaix, to Barras
18 May 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 7 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and portraits of Desaix
Box 4 Folder 5
General Desaix, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and a note
Box 4 Folder 6
Desgenettes, Nicolas, to savary, Duc de Rovigo
27 Dec. 1810
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Desgenettes
Box 4 Folder 7
General Dessole to General Lecourbe
1 May 1800
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 4 Folder 8
Dillon, Arthur, to mr. Gorsy
5 Oct. 1792
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 9
Dillon, Arthur, to Duportail
18 June 1791
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 10
Doubs, Department of the
25 Jan. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 11
Drouet d'Erlon, Jean Baptiste, to the Minister of War
10 Nov. 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 12
Drouet de Santerre, Marie, to her Daughter
June 1847
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 13
Drouhard, Lieutenant, to the National Convention
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 14
Drouot, general, to Mr. Hersant
20 Aug. 1809
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and notes. Documents the Bonapartist emigration in the USA after 1815.
Box 4 Folder 15
Dubail, Priest, to [the Republican Authorities]
1800?
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 16
Dubois, Louis Nicolas [Préfet de Police de Paris]
16 Aug. 1802
1 leaf
Passport delivered to Mr. Laborde, allowing him to travel to St. Domingue
Box 4 Folder 17
Dubois, Dieudonné [Préfet de la Gironde], to Legrand [Administration des Finances]
1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 18
Dubois-Crancé, to the Administrators of Finistère
3 Oct. 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and notes
Box 4 Folder 19
Dubois-Crancé, to the Administrators of Loire-Inférieure
9 March 1794
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits and notes
Box 4 Folder 20
Du Bois du Bais, Louis
2 Sept. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and note
Box 4 Folder 21
Dubreton, Commissaire Ordonnateur de la 1ere Division militaire, to Mr. Bainville
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 22
Duchâtel, Charles, to the Minister of Finance
24 May 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 23
Duchâtel, Charles, to the Minister of Finance
26 Sept. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 24
Duchâtel and Rennesson
10 Dec. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 25
Duclaux, Adjudant Major de la Place de Milan (Italy), to Perillier
1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 26
Dugommier, Jacques-Coquille, to Ajudant-General Miquel
22 Sept. 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf +1 leaf (4.26 bis)
ALS in French with translation, plus another ALS
Box 4 Folder 27
Dugua, General, to the Intendant Général de l'Armée d'Egypte
13 Nov. 1799
1 leaf
[Cairo, Egypt] ALS in French and Arabic
Box 4 Folder 28
Duhesme, General, to General Marmont
27 April 1807
1 leaf
[Padova, Italy] ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 29
Duhesme, General, to the Préfet du Rhône
12ay 1802
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 4 Folder 30
Dulaure, Jacques, tio Baron Cuvillers
7 Oct. 1824
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 31
Dumas, Alexandre, to the Gazette Musicale de Paris
20 May 1840
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French annotated byAlexandre Dumas Fils, plus translation and portraits of Dumas père
Box 4 Folder 32
Dumas, Matthieu (Conseiller d'Etat), to Mr. Villemanzy
17 Sept. 1810
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 33
Dumouriez, General
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 34
Dumouriez, Charles
1782
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 35a
Dupin, Préfet des Deux-Sèvres
1. March 1809
1 leaf + 2 leaves
Certificate in French, plus a portrait and notes
Box 4 Folder 35b
Duplaine, teacher of French in Philadelphia, to the French consul in Charleston*
15 May 1794
2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a translation: about French expatriates suspected of false patriotism, and about the hostile embargo decided by the US Congress against Great-Britain on March 1794.
Box 4 Folder 35b
Duplaine, teacher of French in Philadelphia, to the French consul in Charleston*
1 June 1794
4 leaves
ALS in French (with translation) reflecting the plots of rival French factions in America, and mentioning the lifting of the American embargo; the activities of “Citizen Genêt” who issued privateering commissions that authorized the bearers, regardless of their country of origin, to seize British merchant ships and their cargo for personal profit, with the approval and protection of the French Government, and then even allowed the so-called Little Democrat to sail and begin attacking British shipping, in direct violation of US neutrality.
Box 4 Folder 35c
Duplaine, teacher of French in Philadelphia, to the French consul in Charleston*
12 June 1794
2 leaves
ALS in French (with translation)about the attempts made by a French diplomat, Fauchet, to obtain a million dollars instalment payment of the debt from the US: "His request was granted in the House [but] refused in the Senate... A bit more knowledge of the country would have saved him from this unpleasantness." Also, about the fact that Moissonnier, the French consul in Baltimore, is going to be replaced.
Box 4 Folder 36
Dupont, Cour des Compte, to ?
26 April 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 4 Folder 37
Duportail, Louis, to the Regimental Officers in Charge of the Supplies
1st October 1791
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 38
Duquesnoy, Ernest
7 Jan. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, endorsed by Joseph Lebon, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 39
Durand-Maillane, Pierre Toussaint, to the Administrators of the Var
15 Sept. 1793
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 40
Duroc, General [in his capacity as Gouverneur du Palais Impérial]
1804, 1811
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter, plus portraits and notes
Box 4 Folder 41
Durutte, General, to ?
1806
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portrait and notes
Box 4 Folder 42
Duval, Capitaine, and Chauvot, Chirurgien
31 Oct. 1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 4 Folder 43
École de Mars
[June /October] 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, signed by Billaut-Varenne, Prieur, and Barère, members of the Comité de Salut Public, about the hospital of the school
Box 4 Folder 44
Estaing, Admiral d'
4 May 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French; confirms that le Chevalier de Bellefond fought bravely at Savannah in 1779
Box 4 Folder 45
Ezz, Member of the Administrative Chamber of Zurich [Switzerland], to General Montchoisi
1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 5
Fa-France, Convention Nationale
Box 5 Folder 1
Fabre [de l'Aude], Comte, to the Minister of Finance
19 Sept. 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait
Box 5 Folder 2
Fain, Agathon, to ?
[between 1809 / 1814]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a biographical note
Box 5 Folder 3
Faipoult, Préfet de l'Escaut, to the Administration of Finance
16 Nov. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 4
Fauvre-Labrunerie, Charles, to De Pille
7 Nov. 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 5 Folder 5
Faviers, Matthieu, Commissaire-Ordonnateur en Chef de l'Armée, to ?
7 Dec. 1799
1 leaf
[Zurich] ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 6
Férino, general, to the Directeur de la Guerre
19 June 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 7
Ferroux, Etienne Joseph, to Defermon and Obelin
5 Jan. 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and note
Box 5 Folder 8
Fernig, Theophile, to his cousin Andeval
7 Jan. 1798
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 5 Folder 9
Fesh, Cardinal, to the Préfet de Seine et Oise
28 Febr. 1809
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 5 Folder 10
Fezensac, Duc de (Montesquiou-), to Mr. Dubrusle
n.d. [after 1852]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 11
Flesselles, Jacques de, to the Administrators of la Fabrique de Lyon
1. May 1769
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 12
Fleuriot-Lescot, to the Agence des Domaines Nationauix du District de Paris
16 July 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus a portrait and notes
Box 5 Folder 13
Fontanes, Louis de, to Mr. Reynouard
30 Sept. 1816
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, a portrait of Fontanes, and notes. Fontanes congratulates Reynouard on his "Grammaire de la Langue romane": "Vingt doctes Bénédictins se feraient honneur de vos recherches."
Box 5 Folder 14
Fontanes, Louis de, to General Count Dumas
c. 1810
1 leaf
ALS in French: contains some of Fontanes's views about higher education (Ecole normale superieure, nonsense of creating a chair of poetry at the Collège de France, Delille), as well as an eulogy of Napoleon.
Box 5 Folder 15
Forfait, Pierre Alexandre, to the Concierge de la Maison d'Arrêt de [Sainte-]Pélagie
15 July 1805
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus another letter [to ?, 1805] notes
Box 5 Folder 16
Forfait, Pierre Alexandre, to the Minister of Finance
15 Nov. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 17
Fossa, Comte, to ?
21 April 1809
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 5 Folder 18
Fouché, Joseph
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation. This is an endorsement by Fouché of a petition by Manufacturer Fauchet of Saint-Etienne, for iron and steel
Box 5 Folder 19
Fouché, Joseph, to Pourtalet [?], Négociant [Purchasing Agent]
1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter also sent from "Commune Affranchie" [= Lyon], a portrait of Fouché, and notes. "La République a l'oeil ouvert sur tous ses agents. Malheur à ceux qui la trompent ou qui la trahissent."
Box 5 Folder 20
Fouché, Joseph, to General Girardon
1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 21
Foulon, Joseph. to M. de Villehelio
1779
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 22
Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine
31 May 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, a portrait, and a notice. Release from jail (Pierre-Claude Seulfort, colporteur.)
Box 5 Folder 23
Fourcroy, Antoine, to Mr. Chassiron
4 March 1805
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 24
Foy, General Maximilien, to General Dorseneo
25 June 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and portraits
Box 5 Folder 25
France. Administration municipale de Lille, to Villard
1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 26
France. Aide de camp du général Clarke au général Quantin
1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 27
France. Ambassadeur de la République Française près la République Cisalpine
28 March 1799
1 leaf
[Milano] ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 28
France. Ambassadeur de la République Française près la République Cisalpine
21 April 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 29
France. Armée d'Italie
24 Febr. 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 30
France. Armée d'Italie
18 June 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 31
France. Armée de la Moselle
29 June 1794.
1 leaf
ALS in French, signed by Barère, Billaud-Varenne, Carnot and Prieur
Box 5 Folder 32
France. Armée, 10e bataillon de l'Isère
1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 33
France. Armée, 1er bataillon du Maine-et-Loire
16 August 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French. Certificat d'officier pour Malibert
Box 5 Folder 34
France. Armée, 1er bataillon de Valenciennes
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 35
France. Garde Nationale de Bordeaux
16 August 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French. Leave/furlough to the Citizen Enselme
Box 5 Folder 36
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
1790
1 leaf
ALS in French.
Box 5 Folder 37
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
May 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French.
Box 5 Folder 38
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
September 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French.
Box 5 Folder 39
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
August 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French.
Box 5 Folder 40
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
Nov. 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French. Brevet
Box 5 Folder 41
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
30 June 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French. Dischage for Jacques du Breuil, signed by, e.g., Pétion, with a significant seal of Paris
Box 5 Folder 42
France. Garde Nationale de Paris
1. Oct. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French. Brevet
Box 5 Folder 43
France. 27e Division Militaire
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French. Form in blank: oath of allegiance to the Constitution
Box 5 Folder 44
France. Armée des Pyrénées-Orientales
Dec. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 45
France. Assemblée Nationale Constituante (Committee of Investigation).
18 Sept. 1790
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 5 Folder 46
France. Assemblée Nationale Législative
16 Dec. 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 47
France. Assemblée Nationale Législative
6 Sept. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 48
France. Bibliothèque nationale
April 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French. Receipt for an acquisition through gift
Box 5 Folder 49
France. Comité de législation
4 August, 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 50
France. Comité de législation
12 Sept., 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 51
France. Comité de surveillance révolutionnaire (section Guillaume Tell, Paris)
January 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 52
France. Commissaire de la Marine X to ?
1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 53
France. Commissariat des Postes, to the Minister of Finance
January 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 54
France. Commissariat des Postes, to the Minister of Finance
February 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 55
France. Commission des Armes et Poudres [Capon]
4 June 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, approved and signed by Prieur and Lindet
Box 5 Folder 56
France. Commission des Transports
16 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 57
France. Conseil des Cinq-Cents
17 January 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 58
France. Conseil des Cinq-Cents
11 Juky 1796
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter
Box 5 Folder 59
France. Conseil Executif Provisoire
30 July 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 60
France. Conseil Executif Provisoire
16 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 61
France. Consulat de France à Hamburg
13 Dec. 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 62
France. Consulat de France à New York
1797
1 leaf
ALS in French. Certified copy of a medical certificate for Hauterive, issued and signed by Consul Rozier, with an interesting engraved vignette
Box 5 Folder 63
France. Convention Nationale
January 8, 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 64
France. Convention Nationale
May 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 65
France. Convention Nationale
June 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 66
France. Convention Nationale
June 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 67
France. Convention Nationale
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 68
France. Convention Nationale
July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 69
France. Convention Nationale
Febr. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 70
France. Convention Nationale
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 5 Folder 71
France. Convention Nationale
10 March 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French: passport for Salicetti (Représentant auprès de l'Armée d'Italie)
Box 5 Folder 72
France. Convention Nationale
10 March, 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French: passport for Servière (Représentant auprès de l'Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse)
Box 6
France, Convention Nationale
Box 6 Folder 1
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Législation, registre des arrêtés
16 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 2
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Législation, registre des arrêtés
17 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 3
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Législation, registre des arrêtés
18 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 4
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
25 April 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 5
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
18 July 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 6
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
n.d. [1793]
1 leaf
ALS in French [cut: signatures of Thuriot, Saint-Just, and Hérault deSechelles]
Box 6 Folder 7
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
15 Oct. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Barère, Billaut-Varenne, Hérault deSechelles, and Robespierre, as well as the seal of the Republic, plus translation
Box 6 Folder 8
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
n.d [1793]
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Barère, Billaut-Varenne, Carnot, Prieur [de la Marne], and Robespierre, about the requisition of a midwife
Box 6 Folder 9
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public, to the Commission des Monnaies
7 February 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Carnot and Prieur de la Marne
Box 6 Folder 10
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public, to the Conseil général de la Commune de ?
13 March 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Barère, Billaut-Varenne, Carnot, and Prieur de la Marne
Box 6 Folder 11
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
9 April 1794
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Barère, Billaut-Varenne, Carnot, and Prieur de la Marne, , plus translation
Box 6 Folder 12
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
22 April 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Billaut-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois
Box 6 Folder 13
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
4 May 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Billaut-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Prieur de la Marne, and Robespierre
Box 6 Folder 14
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
9 August 1794
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Billaut-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Eschasseriaux, Lindet, Prieur de la Marne, Robespierre, Thuriot, and Treihard. "Decrees that the representative of the people Frecine shall render himself without delay... to the parts of Belgium occupied by the French armies, to supervise transportation over there"; plus biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 15
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
10 August 1794
1 leaf + 3 leaves + 5 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Collot d'Herbois, Eschasseriaux, Lindet, and Treihard; on the requirements of navigation on the Loire river; plus translation and notes
Box 6 Folder 16
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
4 Sept. 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Delmas, Fourcroy, Laloy, Lindet, Merlin de Douai, Thuriot, and Treihard; passport for Villaret, envoy of the French Republic to the Republic of Genoa, containing a physical description of him; plus translation
Box 6 Folder 17
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
22 Oct. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Bréard, Cochon, and Delmas, on the necessity to gather information on metal factories; plus notes about Bréard
Box 6 Folder 18
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public, to the People's Representatives at the Army of Italy
2 sept. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Carnot, Cochon, Delmas, Eschasseriaux, Fourcroy, Laloy, and Lindet, asking the representatives to collect and send exact informations on " all the officers and civils servants... whom it is important to know in particular [or] whose principles are justly suspected [...] The Committe must not leave you unaware of the growing number of general staff officers, which has increased to an extent detrimental to the public finance."
Box 6 Folder 19
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
15 Jan. 1795
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Bréard, Carnot, Chazal, Dubois-Crancé, Guyton de Morveau, Marec, and Prieur; on the payment made to entrepreneurs the Essone Canal extracting peat; plus translation, and notes on Carnot
Box 6 Folder 20
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public, to the Northern Army
21 Febr. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 21
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
5 April 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French, on the requisition of two hundred horses for the Police
Box 6 Folder 22
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public, to the National Treasury
14 August 1795
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus biographical notes on Thibault and Poisson
Box 6 Folder 23
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public to the Peoples' Representatives in the Pas-de-Calais
20 August 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 24
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
7 Oct. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Cambacérès, Carnot, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Marec,Merlin de Douai, and Sieyès, as well as the seal of the Republic; puts at the disposal of General Vezu "two hundred infrantrymen and two hundred cavalrymen for the purpose of protecting the arrival of a shipment of food for Paris."
Box 6 Folder 25
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
11 august 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 26
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
26 April 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of David, Dubarran, Jagot, Lavicomterie, Louis [du Bas-Rhin], and Voulland; on stolen horses seized from thieves who had raised a government warehouse; with translation and notes
Box 6 Folder 27
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
24 May 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French; on the arrest of a priest, "confesseur de Custine"
Box 6 Folder 28
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
9 August 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Amar, Bernard, David, Dubarran, Goupilleau, Jagot, Lavicomterie, Legendre, Louis du Bas-Rhin, Merlin de Thionville,Vadier, and Voulland; the Committe has examined the grounds for arrest of a former commandant of the "Batailon des Lombards"; with translation
Box 6 Folder 29
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
10 August 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Amar, Bernard de Saintes, Dubarran, Goupilleau, Legendre, Louis du Bas-Rhin, and Merlin de Thionville; the Committe decrees that Citizen Jean Pierre, shoemaker, shall immediately be released from jail; with translation
Box 6 Folder 30
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
11 August 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Dumont, Goupilleau, Lacoste, Louis du Bas-Rhin, Merlin de Thionville, and Vadier; the Committe decrees that the Citoyen Paillard be judged by a militay tribunal
Box 6 Folder 31
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 August 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Dubarran, Lacoste, Louis du Bas-Rhin, Merlin de Thionville, Vadier, and Voulland; the Committe decrees that the Citoyen Desmolin be released
Box 6 Folder 32
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
30 August 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 7 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Amar, Bernard de Saintes, Dubarran, Dumont, Legendre, Louis du Bas-Rhin, Vadier, and Voulland; the Committee decrees the arrest of thieves captured on the Swiss frontier; with translation, and biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 33
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
4 Sept. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 34
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
30 Sept. 1794
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Bourdon de l'Oise, Lesage-Senault, and Monmayou; on the restitution of money to a former prisoner; with biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 35
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Salut Public
14 Oct. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Mathieu and Monmayou; on the necessity to monitor foreigners in Paris
Box 6 Folder 36
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
24 Oct. 1794
1 leaf + 7 leaves
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Bourdon de l'Oise, Clauzel, Dumont, Lesage-Senault, Merlin de Thionville, and Reverchon; decrees a release from jail
Box 6 Folder 37
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 Dec. 1794
1 leaf + 4 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Barras, Boudin, Garnier de l'Aube, Legendre, Lomont, and Meaulle; on the release from jail of ten people, including seven women, e.g. two former nuns; with translation and a portrait of Barras
Box 6 Folder 38
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
28 Dec. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French bearing the signatures of Mathieu and Monmayou, with biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 39
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 March 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 40
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 March 1795
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Cales, Courtois, Gauthier, Sevestre, and Ysabeau
Box 6 Folder 41
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signature of Kervélégan, on the Citizen Prevost, released from jail
Box 6 Folder 42
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
21 July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 6 Folder 43
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
14 August 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Bailleul, Dailly, and Lomont
Box 6 Folder 44
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance, to the Administrators of Paris
8 Sept. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French, requesting information
Box 6 Folder 45
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
8 Sept. 1795
1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Bentabole, Bourdon de l'Oise, Clauzel, Legendre, Lesage-Senault, and Reubell; decrees that Baron, former administrator of the Dpt. of Finistère, be released from jail; with biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 46
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
18 Oct. 1795
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signature of Gauthier (surveillance in Gap), plus notice
Box 6 Folder 47
France. Convention nationale. Comité de Sûreté Générale et de Surveillance
29 Oct. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signature of Cales, Delaunay, and Gauthier
Box 6 Folder 48
France. Convention nationale. Comité des Finances
24 Oct. 1794
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, signed by Brisson, Cambon, Garos and Réal, plus biographical notes
Box 6 Folder 49
France. Convention nationale. Comité des Finances
24 Oct. 1794
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, signed by Brisson, Cambon, Garos and Réal, plus biographical notes
Box 7
France-Go
Box 7 Folder 1
France. Département de l'Aisne, to a Chef d'escadron de la Gendarmerie
28 Sept. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 2
France. Département de l'Aisne, sous-préfecture de Laon
18 Nov. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French: authorization to bear arms
Box 7 Folder 3
France. Département du Calvados, district de Caen
17 Oct. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French: laissez-passer
Box 7 Folder 4
France. Département du Cher
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French : laissez-passer
Box 7 Folder 5
France. Département d'Indre-et-Loire
6 June 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 6
France. Département de la Loire-Inférieure
15 Sept. 1805
1 leaf
ALS in French: notice of a death
Box 7 Folder 7
France. Département de la Loire-Inférieure
19 March 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: : passport
Box 7 Folder 8
France. Département de Marengo
8 July 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French: letter from the Prefet to the Minister of War on transportation
Box 7 Folder 9
France. Département de la Seine
n.d. [1799]
1 leaf
ALS in French: authorization to bear arms
Box 7 Folder 10
France. Département de la Somme
6 May 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French: on local taxation
Box 7 Folder 11
France. Directoire exécutif
31 March 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French, on the revolutionary Army
Box 7 Folder 12
France. Conseil d'administration [Board] de l'Hopital militaire de Lille
9 May 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 13
France. Inspecteur des Contributions du Département de Sambre et Meuse
15 July 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French: on local taxation
Box 7 Folder 14
France. Ministry of Finance
Februrary 1794
1 leaf
Assignat de cinq cents livres(revolutionary banknote.)
Box 7 Folder 15
France. Ministre of the Interior (Letourneur), to the Minister of Finance
15 May 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 16
France. Ministre of the Interior (Chaptal), to M. Barbé-Marbois
4 August 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 17
France. Minister of War (Schérer)
16 August 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French: appointment of Arnaud Baville as the new commander the Mayence army
Box 7 Folder 18
France. Minister of War
19 Oct. 1796
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, for the delivery of 830 horses to officers, signed by Daru; plus translation
Box 7 Folder 19
France. Minister of War (Petiet), to Baville
7 March 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: new position for General Baville
Box 7 Folder 20
France. Minister of War (Petiet), to the Minister of Finance
11 July 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: on the organization of ammunitions supply
Box 7 Folder 21
France. Minister of Justice
8 March 1811
1 leaf
ALS in French: nomination of a civil law notary in Fargeau (Loiret)
Box 7 Folder 22
France. Minister of Justice
14 Nov. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French: nomination of a tax collector in Saverne (Bas-Rhin)
Box 7 Folder 23
France.Minister of Justice. Bureaux des Prisons
1803
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French: expenses for the Luxembourg Jail
Box 7 Folder 24
France. Minister of the Navy
7 Dec.1798
1 leaf
ALS in French: purchase of lighting poles
Box 7 Folder 25
France. Minister of the Police (Sotin de la Coindière)
16 August 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French: radiation of a widow from the list of emigrés
Box 7 Folder 26
France. Officiers de Santé du Quesnoy
6 Dec. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 27
France. People's Representatives in the Départements de l'Ouest, to the Société Populaire de Maixent
7 Dec.1798
1 leaf
ALS in French: on the necessity to monitor the distribution of the bread among the population
Box 7 Folder 28
France. People's Representatives to the Italy Army, to the French Envoy in Genoa
18 Nov. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French: urgent need of money and shoes for the soldiers
Box 7 Folder 29
France. Secrétariat général des Consuls de la République
21 Sept. 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 30
France. Trésorerie nationale
22 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 31
France. Trésorerie nationale
9 Sept. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 32
France. Trésorerie nationale
30 March 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 33
France. Tribunal Révolutionnnaire
1. January 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French: on Renaud-Philippe de Custine (guillotined on Jan. 3, 1794) and his wife, allowing them to communicate with each other, signed by Fouquier-Tinville
Box 7 Folder 34
France. Tribunal Révolutionnnaire
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French: on books and clocks left by detainees
Box 7 Folder 35
François de Nantes, Antoine, to Citizen Vence
18 Dec. 1802
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and biographical notice
Box 7 Folder 36
François de Neufchâteau , Nicolas-Louis , to M. Agasse, Printer and Bookseller
1800
1 leaf + 2 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French: on his country-house, and his private library, plus translation and notes
Box 7 Folder 37
François de Neufchâteau , Nicolas-Louis, to Napoleon I
2 April 1805
1 leaf
ALS in French: thanks the Emperor for prolonging his tenure as President of the Senate
Box 7 Folder 38
Fréron, Louis-Marie Stanislas [in his capacity as the owner of the journal "L'Année littéraire"], to the Abbot of Saint-Léger
26 Aug. 1776
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus portrait and notes
Box 7 Folder 39
Fréron, Louis-Marie Stanislas [as Representative on Mission to Provence]
1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French: laissez-passer, plus translation
Box 7 Folder 40
Fréron, Louis-Marie Stanislas, to Mme Chatenet
23 May 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 7 Folder 41
Frochot, Nicolas, to the Receveur des Contributions
23 Aug. 1804
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus notice
Box 7 Folder 42
Fumel de Montségur, Philibert de, to M. de Saint-Just
21 Nov. 1784
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and notice
Box 7 Folder 43
Garat, Dominique, to the Director of a Theater
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 44
Garat, Dominique, to his tailor
20 Oct. 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 45
Garat, Dominique, to M. Berger
26 June 1811
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 7 Folder 46
Garderat, General Jean, to the Minister of War
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French: summary of his military career since 1764, and application for a pension, endorsed by Muller, Moncey, and Lannes
Box 7 Folder 47
Garin Family
1793-1809
5 folders
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 48
Garnier, Comte Jean-Baptiste, to Citizen Chiquard
24 Febr. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 49
Gaudin,Martin, to M. Dupuy (Département des Ponts-et-Chaussées)
n.d. [1808]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 50a
Gaudin, Martin Michel Charles, Duc de Gaëte, to Madame de Chambaudouin, dame d'honneur of the Princess Borghese, sister of Napoléon
6 March 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 50b
Gay, Sophie, to M. Michelot (Intendant-General of Princesse Pauline Bonaparte)
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 51
Genlis, Stéphanie de
n.d.
1 leaf
AL in French: part of a letter, with translation
Box 7 Folder 52
Georges-Weymer, Marguerite, a.k.a. "Mademoiselle Georges", to another lady
n.d.
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
AL in French, plus tanslation and two portraits of the actress
Box 7 Folder 53
Gérard, Comte Francois, to Colonel Drouot
14 Sept. 1839
2 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait of Gérard
Box 7 Folder 54
Gérard, Baron Francois [= the painter], to ?
1829
1 leaf + 1 leaf
AL in French, plus a portrait of Gérard
Box 7 Folder 55
Gillet, People's representative to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse, to Gen. Schérer
7 oct. 1795
1 leaf +2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 7 Folder 56
Girodet-Trioson, to Fellow-Painter Marie-Nicolas Ponce-Camus
14 Jan. 1813
2 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French: invitation to come and see one [out of twelve] full-length portrait of Napoleon in imperial costume in his atelier
Box 7 Folder 57
Gironvillle, to the Minister of War
1 Dec.1800
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait of Gérard
Box 7 Folder 58
Goblet, Francois, to Senator Lemercier
20 oct. 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 59
Gohier, Louis-Jérôme, to ?
22 aug. 1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait
Box 7 Folder 60
Gohier, Louis-Jérôme, to the Minister of war
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 61
Gohier, Louis-Jérôme, to Mr. Villenave
10 Sept. 1828
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 7 Folder 62
Gosse, and twelve other Republicans from Bricquebec, to the Minister of War
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, containg interesting information about Bricquebec (Manche) and the civil war: "a band of Chouans and brigands has invaded our Department, where they have brought terror by assassinations, fire and pillaging... We beg you, Citizen, to send us arms and ammunitions..."
Box 7 Folder 63
Gouges, Olympe de, to Mr. [de la Ferté?]
27 Oct. 1788
1 leaf
ALS in French [part?], about the rejection by the Comédie française of one of her plays, "Molière chez Ninon, ou le Siècle des grands hommes"
Box 7 Folder 64
Gourgaud, Baron, to Colonel Boilleau
1831, 1834
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus another letter from Boilleau, and portraits of Gourgaud
Box 7 Folder 65
Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Laurent de
10 Sept. 1817
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus an administrative document signed by the same, plus portraits
Box 8
Gr-Laf
Box 8 Folder 1
Grangeneuve, Jean Antoine, to his wife
30 March 1792
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and biographical notice
Box 8 Folder 2
Gratien, General Pierre
13 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 3
Grégoire, Abbé Henri, to Mrs. Barlow
16 July 1803
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, with translation: mentions Joel Barlow and Robert Fulton
Box 8 Folder 4
Grégoire, Abbé Henri, to Mme Dauriat
17 May 1820
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation: "The decent deputies of the Left congratulate me for having been declared unworthy by the scoundrels [who] wish to bring France back under the yoke of oligarchy."
Box 8 Folder 5
Grenier, General Paul, to the Minister of War
21 Nov. 1812
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 8 Folder 6
Grobert, Commissaire des guerres, to the Administrators of Cremona
1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 7
Grouchy, Marquis Emmanuel de,
3 March 1837
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter, plus translation, and a portrait
Box 8 Folder 8
Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, to an Autograph Collector
10 May 1860
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits of Guizot and his wife Eliza
Box 8 Folder 9
Haugues, Victor, and Lebas, French Commissionners to the Iles-du-Vent (French Polynesia)
1795
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation: laissez-passer for an American citizen
Box 8 Folder 10
Hanriot, François
15 May 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French: military certificate for Citizen Graindorge, sealed
Box 8 Folder 11
Harcourt, François-Henri, duc d',
n.d. [between 1778 and 1789]
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation: military status of Dumouriez
Box 8 Folder 12
Hastrel, Adjudant General
1800
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a second letter
Box 8 Folder 13
Hédouville, General Gabriel d', to ?
30 oct. 1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, asking for info about Hoche, plus translation and portrait
Box 8 Folder 14
Hédouville, General Gabriel d', French Ambassador to Russia, to Jean-Baptiste Gail, Professor of ancient Greek at the Collège de France
12 July 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 15
Heisen, Wilhelm
29 May 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French: military report, with translation
Box 8 Folder 16
Henrion, François, to the French Senators
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French; endorsement by Ducos
Box 8 Folder 17
Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean, et alii, to the Committee on Legislation
18 Dec. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, about the Dpt. of Montblanc, also signed by Grégoire, Jagot and Simond
Box 8 Folder 18
Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean, to the Attorney-General of the Dpt. of Meurthe
19 oct. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French, about his family estate at Marainville
Box 8 Folder 19
Herman, Armand, to Auguste Neveu
11 april 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 20
Hesine, Pierre-Nicolas, to Emile [Babeuf]
20 March 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 21
Hesine, Pierre-Nicolas
n.d.
1 leaf
portrait of Gracchus Babeuf accompanied by a poem gloryfying him
Box 8 Folder 22
Hoche, Lazare, to the Chef de Bataillon Barré
6 April 1796
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, with the mention "Deeds, not Words", translation, and four portraits
Box 8 Folder 23
Hoche, Lazare, to the Commission intermédiaire [?]
1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 24
Hoche, Lazare, to General paillard
1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 25
Hohenloe-Bartenstein, Prince von, to the Minister of War
17 Oct. 1819
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French: about foreign desertors, and their willingness to join the regiment raised by Hohenloe, plus a portrait
Box 8 Folder 26
Hortense [de Beauharnais], former Queen of Holland, Duchesse de Saint-Leu
23 Oct. 1814
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, and portraits
Box 8 Folder 27
Houchard, General, to the Minister of War
1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 8 Folder 28
Huard, Genealogist
1796
1 leaf
Document in French: list of documents given to the Archives Départementales de la Seine
Box 8 Folder 29
Hubert-Dumanoir, Jean Michel, to Citizen Lemit
13 June 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 8 Folder 30
Hugo, Victor, to Etienne Carjat
n.d.[1860s?]
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French (draft?), about an article for "Le Boulevard", with translation. Also, COPY of a famous letter to Garibaldi (1868), whose original is in Rome, Italy, Museo Centrale del Risorgimento, Archivio Garibaldi, vol. 242 nr.36 (2), plus portraits of Hugo and Garibaldi
Box 8 Folder 31
Huin, Joseph, to the "Citoyens Ministres"
2 Jan. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French, endorsed by Jacques-Louis David
Box 8 Folder 32
Hulin, General, to the Commander of Milan
28 July 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 33
Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, to M. Carbonel, Directeur de la Musique de la Reine Hortense
21 May 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 34
Jérôme Bonaparte, future King of Westphalia
11 March 1807
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, regarding the exchange of a naval officer; plus five portraits
Box 8 Folder 35
Jérôme Bonaparte, former King of Westphalia, to Lady Augusta Holland
20 febr. 1854
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 8 Folder 36
Joachim [Murat], King of Naples and Sicily, to General Nansouty
15 July 1812
1 leaf + 9 leaves
ALS in French, signed "J. Napoleon", plus translation, and portraits of Murat
Box 8 Folder 37
Joseph Bonaparte,
5 Jan. 1839
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, from Point Breeze in Bordentown, New Jersey, USA; plus a second letter (1805), and portraits
Box 8 Folder 38
Joubert, General, to the Minister of War [Bernadotte]
7 Aug. 1799
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 8 Folder 39
Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste, French Administrator of Piemonte (Italy), to Lemarquant
22 May 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 40
Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste, French Administrator of Piemonte (Italy), to Petiet
30 July 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 41
Junot, General, to General Thiebault
23 oct. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 42
Kellerman, Marshall François-Christophe, to the People's Representatives to the Army of the Alps
[1793]+ 8.Nov. 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter to the Minister of War, annotated and signed by Dejean; protests a misleading title given to him in an official letter: "Si pareille chose était arrivée dans mes bureaux vis-à-vis de vous, j'aurais déjà chassé à coups de pieds dans le cul le drôle qui se serait permis une telle impertinence." Dejean: "C'est une erreur que M. le Maréchal prend pour une insulte."
Box 8 Folder 43
Kellerman, Marshall François-Christophe, to the People's Representatives to the Army of the Alps
1821
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 44
Kilmaine, General, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, and notes
Box 8 Folder 45
Kléber, General Jean-Baptiste, to General Grenier
10 Jan. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 46
Labadie, Commissaire-Ordonnateur, to the Payeur-Général de l'Armée de la Moselle
1. Nov. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, endorsed by Jacques-Louis David
Box 8 Folder 47
La Barrollière, General, to Barbé-Marbois
19 July 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 48
Laborde, de, to ?
18 Jan. 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 48b
La Bouchère to M. Largeleau, in Libourne*
2 dec. 1778
1 leaf
ALS in French: "Il vient d'arriver un navire de Boston, ou il est parti le 3 novembre. Mr. le comte d'Estaing y était encore avec son escadre... On témoigne quelques craintes pour nos possessions d'Amérique. Le commerce n'avait pas besoin de nouveaux désastres, il est déja assez maltraité."
Box 8 Folder 49
Laborde, Colonel de [acting in the name of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte], to ?
6 Sept. 1848
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 50a
Lacépède, Comte Bernard de, to General Lamarque
20 May 1807
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter to Pluvinal (July 1807), plus a portrait, and a notice
Box 8 Folder 50b
Lacépède, Comte Bernard de, to Monsieur Sourreil, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
20 May 1807
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter to Pluvinal (July 1807), plus a portrait, and a notice
Box 8 Folder 51
Lacombe du Tarn, Jean Pierre, to Daurière
8 Oct. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 52
Ladmirault, General, to "Le Moniteur Universel"
6 dec. 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 8 Folder 53
Laffite, Jacques, to Mr. Poingestre, in London
23 May 1818
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus a portrait
Box 9
Lag-Ler
Box 9 Folder 1
Lagau, Philippe [Consul Général en Basse-Saxe, based in Hamburg], to Williams, American Consul in Hamburg
13 June 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 2
Lagrange, Commissaire-Ordonnateur in Luxemburg, to Séttiveaux
27 May 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 3
Lallemand, to Haller, Administrateur des Finances et des Contributions d'Italie
10 April 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 4
Lally-Tollendal, Gérard-Trophime de
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French: note on his birth and baptism
Box 9 Folder 5
Lally-Tollendal, Gérard-Trophime de
30 July 1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
Copies of ALS in French, plus translations and portraits
Box 9 Folder 6
Laloy
25 Aug. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 7
Laloy [Commissaire du Directoire en Haute-Marne] to the Minister of Finance
28 Aug. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 8
Lamarque, General, to general Ernout
4 Aug. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 9
Lamartine, Alphonse de, to ?
2 Sept. 1852
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 9 Folder 10
Lameth, Alexandre de, to M. Etienne Michel
30 Jan. 1806
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 9 Folder 11
Lameth, charles Malo François de, to a Deputy?
28 Jan, 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 9 Folder 12
Lanjuinais, Comte Jean Denis de, to Van Praët, Conservateur de la Bibliothèque Impériale
23 Febr. 1810
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 9 Folder 13
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de, to Marshall Kellermann
10 Oct. 1805
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, on the administration of the District or Sénatorerie of Colmar, and the Senator's official accomodation plus translation and portraits
Box 9 Folder 14
La Revellière-Lépeaux, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation; plus a second document, brevet de lieutenant, bearing the signatures of La Revellière-Lépeaux, Lagarde, and Petiet; plus a portrait
Box 9 Folder 15
Lariboisière, Comte Jean, to the Minsiter of War
13 Aug. 1811
1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French, endorsed by Marshall Suchet, plus translation and notes
Box 9 Folder 16
La Rochefoucault-Liancourt, to Frochon, Préfet de la Seine
13 June 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French, on his radiation from the list of emigrés, plus translation
Box 9 Folder 17
Larrey, Dominique Jean, to Dr. Cugnot, Surgeon-General
13 June 1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and portraits
Box 9 Folder 18
Lasalle, General
16 Jan. 1809
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French (report), countersigned by Generals Guilleminot and Fririon, and by Daru, plus portraits
Box 9 Folder 19
Las Cases [the elder], to Capitaine Baudin
20 July 1827
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 20
Las Cases [the younger], to Dr. Millet
1844
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 21
Lasteyrie, Charles de, to ?
6 July 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 22
Latouche-Tréville, Admiral Louis de, to General Leclerc
11 Oct. 1802
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, countersigned by Leclerc
Box 9 Folder 23
La Tour du Pin de Gouvernet, Jean de
6 Nov. 1789
1 leaf
ALS in French: certificate
Box 9 Folder 24
Latour-Maubourg, Marie Victor de
11 Febr. 1809
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 25
Latour-Maubourg, Marie Victor de
29 April 1820
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 26
Launay, Bernard René Jourdan, Marquis de
13 June 1797
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French: the Marquis and his wife née Le Boursier, "living in Paris at the Chateau de la Bastille, parish of Saint-Paul" agree to pay to Mr. Sauvage 1,000 livres anually; plus translation
Box 9 Folder 27
Lautal, General, to the Minister of War
1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 28
Lavalette, Directeur des Postes, to Prince Louis Bonaparte
11 Oct. 1805
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 9 Folder 1
Lavalette, Mme Louise de, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French. plus portraits
Box 9 Folder 30
Laville-Leroux
13 June 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 31
Leblond [Conseil de conservation des objets de sciences et d'art], to the Bureau du Domaine National
13 April 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: seizure of the artworks kept at the house of a family of émigrés (hôtel de Fleury, rue Notre-Dame des Champs), and of the library of a seminar (Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet)
Box 9 Folder 32
Lebon, Joseph
26 Dec. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French: annotation on the minutes of a meeting in St. Pol
Box 9 Folder 33
Lebon, Veuve Silvestre, to the Duc d'Angoulême
18 Oct. 1820
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 34
Lebrun, Charles-François, to the Minister of Finance*
11 September 1822
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 9 Folder 34
Lebrun, Charles-François, Duc de Plaisance to ??
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 35
Lebrun-Tondu, Pierre Henri, to Citizen Drouas
18 Oct. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 36
Lebrun-Tondu, Pierre Henri, to Captain Paul
21 Febr. 1793
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, registering a vote of the thanks expressed by the Convention to an American captain for having saved the passengers and the crew of the French ship "La Belle Créole"; plus notes on Lebrun-Tondu
Box 9 Folder 37
Leclerc de Juigné, Mgr Antoine
1784
1 leaf
ALS in French: Fonfdation de voeux faits pour le Dauphin
Box 9 Folder 38
Lefebvre, General, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 39
Lefebvre, General, to Réal
6 Nov. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 40
Lefebvre, General, to the Minsiter of Finance
6 Nov. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 41
Lefevre-Gineau, Louis, to ?
4 Aug. 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 42
Lefort, Commissaire des Guerres, to Dubois-Crancé
18 Oct. 1792
1 leaf + 8 leaves
ALS in French, endorsed by Genearl Moreau, plus portraits of Moreau
Box 9 Folder 43
Le Graverend, Jean-Marie, to ?
20 June 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 44
Le Graverend, Jean-Marie, to Béranger, Conseiller d'Etat
20 June 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 45
Le Graverend, Jean-Marie, to M. Laderer
7 Febr. 1815
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 46
Le Graverend, Jean-Marie, to ?
5 June 1817
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 47
Le Graverend, Jean-Marie, to ?
7 July 1824
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 48
Le Pelletier, Commissaire des Guerres, to M. Cauchy
7 Aug. 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 9 Folder 49
Le Ray de Chaumont, James,
7 Aug. 1807
1 leaf + 9 leaves
[New York] ALS in French, plus notes
Box 9 Folder 50
Lerouge, to the Citoyens Administrateurs de la Monnaie
22 April 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10
Les-Mol
Box 10 Folder 1
Lespinasse, People's Representative in The Nord, to Noël-Gabriel-Luce Villar
1. Jan.1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: endorsement of a candidate to the Institut de France
Box 10 Folder 2
Lespinasse, General, to the Cdt. de l'Artillerie
17 Jan. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 3
Les..., Baron de [Major in the Royal-Suedois]
14 June 1752
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, on the medical discharge of Heinrich Zimmerman, endorsed by the Duc de Broglie, with translation
Box 10 Folder 4
Loison, General, to General Berthier
23 Dec. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 5
Louis XV, King of France
12 March 1771
1 leaf
[Port de l'Orient, or Lorient, Brittany]
ALS in French: mandate to arrest and put in jail "a fugitive Negro slave belonging to lord Rivalz de St. Antoine, member of Council of the Isle of France [Mauritius]"
Box 10 Folder 6
Louis XVI, King of France
1. March 1775
1 leaf
ALS in French: assignation of Mr. De Cussac in Le Grand-Morne, Saint-Domingue, to fulfill the duties of "Capitaine Aide-Major des Milices"
Box 10 Folder 7
Louis XVI, King of France [?]
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French: short note to the King's valet de chambre, Chamilly
Box 10 Folder 8
Louis XVI, King of France
31 July 1788
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Documents in French [COPY]: "Réponse du Roi a MM. les députés des Etats de Bretagne"
Box 10 Folder 9
Louis XVI, King of France
n.d. [1793?]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in Italian, entitled "Testamento di Luigi XVI, scritto da lui... il giorno 21. Gennaio 1793", plus a note by Prof. Mario Einaudi (Cornell)
Box 10 Folder 10
Louis XVIII, King of France
15 Oct. 1814
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French: attribution of the Ordre de Saint-Louis to Antoine Hardouineau de Guineux, plus portraits of the king
Box 10 Folder 11
Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, to the Minister of Finance
16 April 1805
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and portraits
Box 10 Folder 12
Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, to M. de Salvandy
3 July 1834
1 leaf + 12 leaves
ALS in French: order to attend the opening of the Parliament, co-signed by Adolphe Thiers, pl;su portraits of both men
Box 10 Folder 13
Luckner, Nicolas de
9 Sept. 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French: leave of absence
Box 10 Folder 14
MacDonald, General, to the Minsiter of War
27 Oct. 1798
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 10 Folder 15
MacDonald, General
1800
1 leaf
ALS in French: satisfecit delivered to Cdt Lefort
Box 10 Folder 16
Magallon, General, to local administrators
11 Nov. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 17
Maison, General, to the Minister of War
1804-1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 18
Maison, General, to ?
1811
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 19
Maison, General, to the Minister of War
1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 20
Malartic, Amable [French Governor of Mauritius]
n.d. [1794]
1 leaf
ALS in French: military order
Box 10 Folder 21
Malesherbes, Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de
n.d. [after 1776?]
1 leaf
ALS in French, documenting his activity as a botanist
Box 10 Folder 21
Malesherbes, Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de [?], to ?
26 Nov. 1775
1 leaf
ALS in French [authentic?], documenting his membership in the Académie française
Box 10 Folder 22
Malesherbes, Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de, to M. Abeille
n.d. [ 1775?]
1 leaf
ALS in French [authentic?], on pensions
Box 10 Folder 23
Malet, François, to the Minsiter of War
1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 24
Malleville, François Jacques de, to Barbé-Marbois
14 July 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 25
Mallarmé, François, to the People's representatives to the Army of Pyrénées-Orientales
January 1794
1 leaf + 2 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and a biographical note
Box 10 Folder 26
Mallet du Pan, Jacques
25 June 1784
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation, and a biographical note
Box 10 Folder 27
Malouet, Pierre Victor, to an Admiral
n.d. [before 1806]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 10 Folder 28
Manuel, Pierre Louis, to the Procureur Syndic du Dpt de la Seine
8 Nov. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 29
Manuel, Pierre Louis
26 Aug. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 30
Marbot, General, to ?
1824
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 31
Marchand, Louis-Joseph-Narcisse, former valet de chambre of Napoleon, to ?
22 April 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: service record of Gen. Brayer
Box 10 Folder 32
Mareschali, to Caillard
9 april 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 33a
Maret, duc de Bassano, to the Minister of Finance*
5 Jan. 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French, on the sale of houses by Marshall Kellermann
Box 10 Folder 33b
Maret, duc de Bassano, to Duroc, duc de Frioul, Grand Maréchal du Palais
6 July 1810
1 leaf
ALS in French, following the grand ball given by Prince Schwartzenberg at the Austrian embassy to celebrate the marriage of Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Louise(on 1 July, 1810): "S.M. m'a ordonné d'informer Votre Excellence de l'intention ou Elle est de n'assister désormais à aucune fête, réunion ou assemblée que les lieux n'aient été visités par son architecte."
Box 10 Folder 34
Maret, duc de Bassano, to the Minister of Finance
27 April 1812
1 leaf
ALS in French, on the capture by French pirates of an American boat, "The Herald"
Box 10 Folder 35
Margueritte, and other citizens
22 April 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French: deposition concerning officers' behavior on the 10th of August, 1792, during the attack of the Tuileries
Box 10 Folder 36
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
1 July 1774
1 leaf
ALS in French, with seal (broken): nomination of a dignitary [Ecuyer de la Bouche de la Reine]A
Box 10 Folder 37
Marie-Louise, Impératrice des Français
3 May 1812
1 leaf + 8 leaves
LS in French, on the newly founded Société de la Charité Maternelle, plus portraits
Box 10 Folder 38
Marmont, Auguste
19 Jan. 1815
1 leaf
ALS in French: accepts the title of Honorary Commissioner of the Association of the Chevaliers de Saint-Louis; plus portraits
Box 10 Folder 39
Marmontel, Jean-Francois
1765
1 leaf + 1 leaf
Receipt in French, and a portrait
Box 10 Folder 40
Masséna, General, to Senator Garat
12 sept. 1801
1 leaf + 8 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 10 Folder 41
Mathilde Bonaparte, Princess, to ?
n.d.
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits and biographical notice
Box 10 Folder 42
Miremont, to M. le Maire de Vienne
22 Aug. 1808
1 leaf
ALS in French, on the local tin mines, endoresed by the Sous-Préfet du Rhône
Box 10 Folder 43
Mauger, to a Conseiller d'Etat
15 May 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 44
Maure, Nicolas-Sylvestre [People's Representative in the Dpts of Seine-et-Marne and Yonne]
15 Febr. 1794
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French: descriptive list of about 250 people kept in jail in the Department of Seine-et-Marne ["marchand de grain", "ex-noble", "parent d'émigré", "domestique d'émigré", "ex-chanoine", "curé", aristocrate prononcé", "ex-constituant", "suspect d'incivisme", "pour avoir dit qu'il signerait le procès-verbal des assemblées primaire avec sa canne", etc.] with partial translation
Box 10 Folder 45
Menou, Jacques
17 Jan. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 46
Merlin de Douai, Philippe-Antoine, to the Minister of Finance
1798
1 leaf
ALS in French [authentic?]
Box 10 Folder 47
Merlin de Douai, Philippe-Antoine, to Camille Desmoulins
17 Jan. 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French, with translation: asks D. to insert two announcements in his journal
Box 10 Folder 48
Milet de Mureau,[Préfet of the Corrèze], to the Minister of Finance
14 Mrch 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 49
Milet de Mureau [Préfet of the Corrèze], to Thouin [Curator at the Musée d'Histoire naturelle]
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 50
Miollis
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 51
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de, to the Baron de Maltzan
4 Aug. 1770
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 8 leaves
ALS in French to Maltzan, to whom M.owned money; plus translation, plus portraits and notes
Box 10 Folder 52
Moeune, to Ducloz
1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 53
Molitor, Gabriel, to Gen. Lecourbe
5 Oct. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 54a
Mollien, Nicolas, to Mme Michel
1812
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 10 Folder 54b
Mollien, Nicolas, to Baron Bignon*
7 March 1838
1 leaf
ALS in French: congratulations about Bignon's "Histoire de France sous Napoleon" (10 vols. 1829-1838)
Box 11
Mon-Pef
Box 11 Folder 1
Monge, Gaspard, to the Administrateurs des Postes
18 Oct. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 2a
Montalivet, Jean-Pierre de [Minister of the Interior], to Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume, Préfet maritime de Toulon*
4 January 1810
1 leaf
ALS in French about some "graines qui sont parvenues de Vienne a Paris" for the Botanic Museum in Toulon
Box 11 Folder 2b
Montalivet, Jean-Pierre de [Minister of the Interior], to the Préfet d'Erfurt
16 Nov. 1811
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 2c
Montalivet, Jean-Pierre de [Minister of the Interior]*
15 May 1815
1 leaf
ALS in French [draft]: pension of 20,000 francs for la duchesse de Frioul
Box 11 Folder 3
Montbrun, General, to a Commissaire-Ordonnateur
23 Oct. 1812
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
[Figueras, Spain] ALS in French, plus translation and biographical notes
Box 11 Folder 4
Montesquiou-Fezensac, François Xavier Marc Antoine, to Baron Bouvier
26 oct. 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 6
Monthion, General de, to Berthier
10 Aug. 1811
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 11 Folder 7
Montholon, General de, to Duclos
31 May 1853
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 8
Montjoie, Christophe Félix Louis Ventre de la Touloubre, sometimes called Garlart de, to Dupuy
21 Sept. 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French and Italian, with transcription/translation
Box 11 Folder 9
Montmorency-Laval, to M. Lavalette
29 May 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 10
Moreau [?]
1802
1 leaf
ALS in French : bill for horse food
Box 11 Folder 11
Morgan, Jacques Polycarpe, to another general
21 Aug. 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus biographical notice
Box 11 Folder 12
Mortier, general Edouard, to the Minister of War
11 april 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 13
Mouchy, Marshall Duke of, to the Marshall Duke of Richelieu
3 may 1783
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 14
Mouton, General, to Soult
1831
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 15
Muy, General du, or Dumuy, to Mme de Simiane
30 april 1802
1 leaf
[Bourges] ALS in French, containing a paragraph about General Menou, a.k.a. Abdullah Jacques-François de Boussay de Menou, who had converted to Islam while serving in Egypt with Dumuy: "My colleague Menou has permitted me once to be in the same appartment with his wife, but she was dressed in a severe oriental costume and Mahomet fell upon her eyes, with a veil making her impenetrable"
Box 11 Folder 16
Napoléon Bonaparte [?]
29 Aug. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 17
Napoléon Bonaparte, Consul [endorsement]
24 March 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French: military assignation, also signed by Berthier, Minister of War, and General Andréossy
Box 11 Folder 18
Napoleon Bonaparte, Consul
24 Dec. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French: decoration ["fusil d'honneur"] awarded to Louis Lecompte for his bravery in Verona, Italy, also sigend by Maret and Berthier
Box 11 Folder 19
Napoléon Bonaparte, Consul [in the name of]
7 Febr. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French: nomination of an extractor in the Tribunal of Dieckirch or Diekirch, then in the French Department of Forêts [in present Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany], signed by Régnier
Box 11 Folder 20
Napoléon Bonaparte, Consul
2 July 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French [COPY]: appointment of a diplomat, plus twelve portraits of Talleyrand
Box 11 Folder 21
Napoléon Bonaparte, Consul
4 June 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French: Brevet de sous-lieutenant for J.J. Laminck
Box 11 Folder 22
Napoléon Bonaparte, Ex-Emperor [fake copy]
1821?
1 leaf
ALS in French: copy of his testament
Box 11 Folder 23
Necker, Jacques, to? [ the Bureau de la Ville?]
2 Sept. 1789
1 leaf
[Versailles] ALS in French, plus a translation: on the purchase of one thousand sacks of flour which, though having been reported to be very bad, were sent to Mr. Thierry, baker in Versailles. Necker [?] orders further examination. Authenticity is difficult to establish.
Box 11 Folder 24
Nesselrode, Charles Robert, Comte, to ?
13 May 1816
1 leaf
[Paris] ALS in French, with an autograph annotation by A.D.White on the back: "This autograph was given to me in 1855 while I was attached to the Am[erican] legation at St. Petersburg - just after my interview with the old statesman, who in his day played with great inspiration the part of jackal to the lion Metternich. A.D. White,Cornell University, Sept. 14th 1882."
Box 11 Folder 25
Ney, Marshall, to Mr. Bresson [de Valensole]
26 Sept. 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French, with autograph endorsements of three other Marshalls of France [Davout, Mortier and Suchet]. Ney requests his agent to proceed at once to Vienna (Austria), where the Congress had just assembled and would open on November 1., and to take the necessary steps to ensure the continuance of his dotations or, at least, the equivalent in revenues. His fellow-marshalls agree to a similar arrangement.
Box 11 Folder 26
Noailles, Louis Marie, Vicomte de,
[Philadelphia], n.d. [1797?]
1 leaf + 12 leaves
ALS in English, plus notes
Box 11 Folder 27
Orléans, Louis Philippe, Duc d', to the Comte de Vernon
Dec. 1785
1 leaf
ALS in French: about the death of his father
Box 11 Folder 28
Orléans, Marie-Adélaïde, to "M. Roi, ministre des Finances" [in fact, Antoine Roy]
30 Oct. 1820
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and graphics [portraits and pictures of the family chapel at Dreux]
Box 11 Folder 29
Otto, Louis Guillaume, Comte de Mosloy, to Bank Perregaux [or Perrégaux] and Cie
10 June 1805
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 30
Oudinot, Nicolas Charles, to another General
7 June 1801
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 11 Folder 31
Pache, Jean Nicolas, to the Attorney General-Syndic of Paris
27 Sept. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 32
Pache, Jean Nicolas, to Citizen Paul [Mayor of Toulon]
8 Oct. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 33
Pache, Jean Nicolas, to ?
28 Nov. 1793
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits and notes
Box 11 Folder 34
Paganel, Pierre, to the Minister of War
12 Oct. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 35
Palloy, Pierre-François , to Coetreles
4 Sept. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, plus portrait, plus notice
Box 11 Folder 36
Palloy, Pierre-François , to ?
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 37
Palloy, Pierre-François, to Charles-Philippe Ronsin
3 Febr. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 38
Panis, Etienne-Jean, to mme Duplessis (Camille Desmoulins's Mother-in-law)
August 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 39
Paré, Jules, to the Minister of War
24 Jan. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 40
Paris. Administration du Département, to the Minister of Finance
20 Jan. 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 41
Paris, Maire de
18 July 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French, signed by Capitaine Murray of the garde Nationale
Box 11 Folder 42
Paris. Commune, Assemblée des Représentants
August 1789
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 43
Paris. Comité Permanent des Représentants de la Commune
4 dec. 1789
1 leaf
ALS in French: certificate
Box 11 Folder 44
Paris. Conseil Général de la Commune [list of the members of]
29 March 1791
1 leaf
ALS in French, with 74 signatures/144 members, notably Cousin, Garran de Coulon, Grouvelle, Cretet, Quatremère de Quincy, etc.
Box 11 Folder 45
Paris, Commune de, Police Department
14 Sept. 1792
1 leaf + 11 leaves
ALS in French, with seal of the municipality, plus notes
Box 11 Folder 46
Paris, Commune de, Police Department
22 July 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French: on the transfer to the Prison de l'Abbaye of General Custine
Box 11 Folder 47
Paris, Commune, Section [subunit] des Piques
3 June 1793
1 leaf
ALS in French: on Citizen Lennequin, former priest
Box 11 Folder 48
Paris, Commune, Section [subunit] des Tuileries
25 Sept. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, on Citizen Pollin
Box 11 Folder 49
Paris, Commune, Section [subunit] Poissonière
3 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, on Citizen Moisson
Box 11 Folder 50
Paris, Commune, Section [subunit] de l'Indivisibilité
22 Jan. 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, on monetary compensation voted to the Committee members
Box 11 Folder 51
Paris, Commune, Section [subunit] des Sans-Culottes
17 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French, on female suspects
Box 11 Folder 52
Parlement de Paris
[5 Aug. 1789]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 53
Parlement de Bordeaux
[24 Nov. 1789]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 54
Parlement de Normandie
[25 June 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 55
Parlement de Navarre (Pau)
[17 July 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 56
Parlement de Paris, siégeant a Troyes
[27 Aug. 1787]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 57
Parlement de Paris
[4 May 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 58
Parlement de Paris
[7 May 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 59
Parlement de Paris
[13 Sept. 1788]
1 leaf
Document in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 60
Pau, Citizens of
1788
3 leaves
ALS in French, Facsimile
Box 11 Folder 61
Pelet de la Lozère, Jean, to tghe Minister of Finance
n.d. [after 1830]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 62
Pelletier or Peltier [?], Ingénieur des Mines
1788
1 leaf
Manuscript in French
Box 11 Folder 63
Penières-Delzors, Jean-Augustin, to ?
n.d. [1795]
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 64
Pérignon, General
n.d.
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in Italian, plus a portrait
Box 11 Folder 65
Perregaux (or Perrégaux), Jean-Frédéric, to M. Gorneaux
7 dec. 1789
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 11 Folder 66
Perrin, General, to General de Laviolais
15 oct. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 11 Folder 67
Pertusier, Charles
n.d.
28 leaves
Photocopies and translations [poems, letters to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre]
Box 12
Pet-R
Box 12 Folder 1
Petiet, Claude, to the Minister of War
5 Dec. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 2
Pétion de Villeneuve, Jérôme, to ?
5 May 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 3
Pétion de Villeneuve, Jérôme, to Palloy
6 July 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 4
Petitguillaume, General, to a Commissaire-Ordonnateur en Chef
28 Oct. 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, on the supply of food and ustensils for troups, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 5
Pichegru, General Charles, to General Pille
1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 6
Pichegru, General Charles, to General Taponnier
16 Nov. 1795
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 7
Pichegru, General Charles, to General Vernier
1796
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 8
Pille, General, to the Minister of War
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 9
Piombino, Elisa Bonaparte-Bacciochi, Future Duchesse de,
5 Dec. 1799
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French, also signed by Felix Bacciochi, plus portraits of her
Box 12 Folder 10
Piorry, Pierre, Biography of
Jan. 1816
4 leaves + 8 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 12 Folder 11
Polignac, Jules de, to M. Fayau, Argentier des Ecuries du Comte d'Artois
3 May 1787
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 12
Polignac, Melchior de
n.d. [c. 1820]
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 13
Pommereul, Préfet du Département d'Indre-et-Loire, to Fontenai [or Fontenay]
6 Jan. 1802
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 12 Folder 14
Poniatowski, Prince Józef Antoni, to Joseph Nowosulski, Surgeon in the Polish Army
[Warsaw], 18 Febr. 1808
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in Polish, with a printed seal of the Grand-Duchy of Warsaw, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 15
Pontécoulant, Louis Gustave Doulcet-, to the Minister of Finance
10 febr. 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 12 Folder 16a
Portalis, Joseph Marie*
n.d. [1803]
1 leaf
Notes in French: draft manuscript concerning the divorce in the Civil Code (Titre VI, chapitre 2, "Des formes du divorce") with corrections in Portalis's hand.
Box 12 Folder 16b
Portalis, Joseph Marie, to the Préfet des Deux-Sèvres*
13 February 1807
1 leaf
ALS in French about a payment due to a curate in Assay.
Box 12 Folder 16c
Portalis, Joseph Marie, to M. de Fontenay
[Florence] 14 June 1818
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 17
Poussielgue, Jean-Baptiste, to ?
17 Aug. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 18
Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo, to M. Erskine
1. April 1804
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus partial translation [document partly torn]
Box 12 Folder 19
Pradel, Commissaire-Ordonnateur, to Citizen Pary
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 20
Pradt, Dominique, Abbé de, to General Baudran
11 april 1832
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 21
Prieur de la Marne, Pierre-Louis, and General Turreau, to general Marceau
18 Oct. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 22
Prudhomme, Louis, to the Minister of Finance
4 Jan. 1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 23
Pully, Comte de, to Brissot the younger
20 Aug. 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 24
Quenault, du Conseil d'Etat, to M. le Grand (Ministry of Finance)
1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 25
Quinette, Nicolas Marie, to the Préfet of Deux-Sèvres
10 Jan. 1811
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation and notice
Box 12 Folder 26
Ramel-Nogaret, Dominique Vincent, to Gaudin, Commissaire du Directoire
19 Oct. 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 27
Rampon, General-Senator, to M. Perregeaux
13 Febr. 1805
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 12 Folder 28
Randon, Marshall Jacques Louis, to Captain Milson
5 Jan. 1867
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 12 Folder 29
Réal, Pierre, to M. Mouchet
20 May 1811
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 30
Réant, Quartermaster-Treasurer of the Consular Guard, to Citizen Lefebvre
7 Sept. 1803
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 12 Folder 31
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, Michel-Louis-Étienne, to the Minister of Finance
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 32a
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, Michel-Louis-Étienne, to M.Beauchamp
14 Oct. 1801
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 32b
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, Michel-Louis-Étienne, to M. de Montlosier *
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 33
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, Michel-Louis-Étienne, to the Minister of Finance
24 Dec. 1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 34
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, Michel-Louis-Étienne, to Councillot of State Frochot
19 June 1804
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, on a commission of three Councillors of State entrusted to visit the Paris prisons and investigating possible improvements, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 35a
Régnier, Claude, to the Minister of War*
6 May 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French, with the printed seal of the Ministry of Justice, about the situation of customs officers drafted into military service
Box 12 Folder 35b
Régnier, Claude, to the Minister of War*
2 December 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French, about radiations from the "liste des émigrés", and the restoration of some property
Box 12 Folder 35c
Régnier, Claude, to the Préfet Maritime de Toulon
1804
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, with the printed seal of the Ministry of Justice, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 36
Reille, General, to a Notary
n.d.
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 37
Reinhard, Karl Friedrich, to Treilhard
23 Jan. 1798
1 leaf + 1 leaf +2 leaves
ALS in French, plus a second letter to the same, plus notes
Box 12 Folder 38
Reubell, Jean Francois, to Rudler, Commissaire du Gouvernement
4 March 1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, bearing the signatures of Reubell and Lagarde, Secretary General of the Directory, plus a portrait of Reubell
Box 12 Folder 39
Reynier, to the People's Representatives to the North Army
18 June 1795
1 leaf +4 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 12 Folder 40
Richard, Joseph, to the People's Representatives to the North Army
12 May 1795
1 leaf +2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 12 Folder 41
Richelieu, Armand Emmanuel Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de, to Vincent de Vaublanc
c. 1815
1 leaf +2 leaves
ALS in French. Documents the "White Terror" (July 1815-September 1816), during which royalist militia exacted retribution against Jacobins and the "traitors" who had rallied around Napoleon. Moderates like Richelieu opposed the civil war tactics of ultra-conservatives like Viomésnil (mentioned here), a veteran of the Revolutionary Army in America turned general in the counter-revolutionary armies in Europe, who was pushed to retire with the rank of Marshal in 1816.
Box 12 Folder 42
Ricord, to "the Rédacteur des Annales politiques, Morales et Littéraires"
14 Oct. 1818
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 43
Ris, Clément de, to Defermon
12 March 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 44
Ris, Clément de, to Defermon
1 July 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 45
Rivière, Marquis de, to Major Way
1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 46
Roberjot, Claude, to ?
1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 47
Robert, François (Lieutnant in the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse)
May 1795
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French: petition for discharge and pension, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 48
Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph, Vicomte de, to Citizen Damez
May 1795
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation [N.B : doc. is defective]
Box 12 Folder 49
Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph, Vicomte de, to the Minister of War
1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation [N.B : doc. is defective]
Box 12 Folder 50
Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph, Vicomte de
1793
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French: certifixcate for a leave of absence in teh Army, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 51
Roger-Ducos
July 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 52
Roger-Ducos, to Defermon
1802
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 53
Roland de la Platière Jean-Marie
13 Sept. 1792
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French: order for military supply, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 54
Roland de la Platière Jean-Marie, to the Syndic of Paris
28 Sept. 1792
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 12 Folder 55
Roland de la Platière Jean-Marie, to teh Adminsitrator of the Dpt. of Deux-Sèvres
1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 56
Roland de la Platière Marie-Jeanne, "Madame Rolland", to Henri Gosse (Geneva)
[Lyon] 1 Febr. 1790
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 12 Folder 57
Rondelet, Commission des Travaux Publics
17 Sept. 1795
1 leaf
ALS in French: attestation
Box 12 Folder 58
Rossignol, ex-General, to the Minister of War
15 June 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French, on his being unable to find a means to join the army of Egypt
Box 12 Folder 59
Rostollant, General, to the Director of Posts
8 July 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 12 Folder 60
Rousseau, Claude Louis, Bishop of Coutances, to [Mgr. Fesch?]
14 october 1805
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus biographical notice
Box 12 Folder 60
Rouyer, Colonel Jean Victor
1805
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus biographical notice
Box 12 Folder 61
Rovere de Fontvielle, Joseph, to the Minister of War
1797
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13
S
Box 13 Folder 1
Sablé, Bien-Aimé
[Brest] 28 Febr. 1815
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 13 Folder 2
Saint-André, Jean-Bon to
[Brest] 21 april 1794
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 4
Saint-Hilaire, General louis-Joseph, to the Minister of War
24 June 1803
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus notice
Box 13 Folder 5
Saliceti, Antoine Christophe, to Amnbroise Francischetti [in Bastia]
[Genova] 10 March 1804
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 13 Folder 6
Santerre, Antoine Joseph, to Citizen Trimaille
1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, with seal, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 7
Santerre, Antoine Joseph, to Frochot
11 Aug. 1792
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 8
Sartine
1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 9a
Savary, Anne Jean Marie, to the Minister of War
28 Dec. 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 9b
Savary, Anne Jean Marie, to Lavalette*
14 May 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French about the military police in Piemont
Box 13 Folder 9c
Savary, Anne Jean Marie, to "Messieurs les administrateurs de la Comptabilité nationale"*
22 May 1806
1 leaf
ALS in French (recommandation)
Box 13 Folder 9d
Savary, Anne Jean Marie, to a High-Ranking Civil Servant in the Ministry of Police
7 May 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French: Draft of a circular letter to the Prefects on the "spirit of opposition and disobedience in parts of the Empire... The principal basis of all the disorders is to be found in desertion. I cannot hide from His Majesty the fact that this condition of affairs is due to the weakness of the local administration... I wish to present a report which contains precise facts and statistics. I beg you, Monsieur, to be good enough to drawn up a table, according to the model attached, of the deserters and refractory cases which are found in your department."
Box 13 Folder 10a
Sherlock, Sauveur-Francois-Louis, to Lemercier, about his postulating for the Senate
July 1801
1 leaf
ALS in French (recommandation)
Box 13 Folder 10b
Schibli, Agent of the Population of Fislispach [near Baden, Germany] to General Paillard
21 June 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French, on requisitions imposed on the locals by the French military
Box 13 Folder 11
Sébastiani, Minister of Foreign Affairs
1. Aug. 1832
1 leaf
ALS in French: passport for the Count of Alton-Shée
Box 13 Folder 12
Ségur, Louis Philippe de, to Bigot de Préameneu
24 Aug. 1807
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 13 Folder 12b
Ségur, Louis Philippe de, to M. de Sireuil
19 Apr. 1782
1 leaf
ALS in French: informing Sireuil that the King has approved giving him the pension earned by his brother, who fought for the American side in the Revolutionary War
Box 13 Folder 13
Semonville, Charles Louis Huguet de, to M. Berger
27 July 1814
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 14
Senaux, Jean Pierre de, to the Prince de Lamballe
24 Nov. 1766
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 13 Folder 15
Serrurier, Marshall
1812
1 leaf
ALS in French: comptability
Box 13 Folder 16
Servan de Gerbey, Joseph
25 April 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French: statement of readiness for military service.
Box 13 Folder 17
Servan de Gerbey, Joseph, to M. Villemanzy
4 June 1806
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus portrait
Box 13 Folder 19
Sicard, Abbé Roche Ambroise, to M. Barbier, Librarian
19 Sept. 1808
1 leaf+ 5 leaves
ALS in French, on his school for the deaf, plus bibliographical notes and portraits.
Box 13 Folder 20
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, to M. sabatier
24 Jan. 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, plus bibliographical notes
Box 13 Folder 21
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, to Laharpe, Membre du Directoire Helvétique
19 June 1799
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 7 leaves
ALS in French, plus a certificate of authenticity, plus bibliographical notes and portraits of both Laharpe and Sieyès
Box 13 Folder 22
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, to Bertin, Ordonnateur de la Marine
28 Aug. 1799
2 leaves + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 23
Sijas, Prosper, to the Adminsitrators of Paris
8 oct. 1793
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, letterhead illustrated with a a red liberty cap, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 24
Société populaire de Mâcon
1793
1 leaf
ALS in French: certificate of membership of Citizen Roberjot, with interesting printed vignette
Box 13 Folder 25
Sombreuil., Marquis de, to the Minister of War
13 Aug. 1788
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 13 Folder 26
Soult, Nicolas, to Barbier
[Tarente] 31 Oct. 1801
1 leaf + 12 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation, and portraits
Box 13 Folder 27
Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine de , to MM. Le Roy, Bayard and McEvers [bankers in New York]
[Stockholm] 25 March 1813
1 leaf
ALS in French [duplicata], regarding investments issues; the intrigues between General Moreau, then banished in New York, and General Bernadotte, now crown prince of Sweden and at the head of an army opposing Napoleon; and on the prospect of having her son Albert appointed diplomat to the USA (he would be killed in a duel in July 1813.)
Box 13 Folder 28
Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine de , to M. de Montlosier
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in Frenc: invitation to supper
Box 13 Folder 29
Strub, Colonel Xavier
4 July 1814
1 leaf
ALS in French: resume
Box 13 Folder 30
Suchet, Marshall, to the Treasurer of the Legion of Honor
17 Sept. 1814
1 leaf + 12 leaves
ALS in French
Box 13 Folder 31
Suffren, Bailli de
August 1774
1 leaf
ALS in French: report dealing with the events of a tour of duty at sea
Box 13 Folder 32
Suisse. Stapfer [Minister to France] to
28 Dec. 1800
1 leaf
ALS in French: certificate for Citizen Bernard, with printed vignette of the Légation Helvétique à Paris.
Box 14
T-Z
Box 14 Folder 1
Taillade, Colonel, to Commodore Porter
11 Jan. 1818
1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 14 Folder 2a
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Foreign Minister to all French civil and military officers
16 december 1798
1 leaf
ALS in French: passport and laissez-passer for Citizen Mangourit, the French agent in Saint-Maurice-en-Vallais, Switzerland, also certifying that his name never appeared on any "liste d'émigrés"
Box 14 Folder 2b
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, to the Minister of Finance
1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 2c
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, to the Minister of Interior*
9 February 1804
1 leaf
ALS in French, recommending Louis Bignon for the position of sous-préfet of Sisteron, "dont il a été absent pendant toute la durée des fonctions qu'il a remplies au Levant. Cette longue absence l'ayant rendu étranger à tous les partis qui ont divisé les esprits pendant le cours de la Révolution, il serait par cela seul plus propre que tout autre à l'exercice de [la] place qu'il sollicite; il pourrait d'ailleurs par quelques ressources personnelles suppléer à la modicité du traitement affecté à la sous-préfecture."
Box 14 Folder 3
Tallien, Jean Lambert, to Réal
n.d. [1795?]
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French:, plus translation
Box 14 Folder 4
Tallien, Jean Lambert, to the Administrators of the National Domains of Egypt
[Cairo, Egypt] 12 aug. 1797
1 leaf + 1 leaf
ALS in French, plus translation
Box 14 Folder 5
Tallien, Jeanne Marie Cabarrus, Princess of Chimay, to a General
17 Dec. 1817
1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French, plus portraits
Box 14 Folder 6
Talma, to Mme Caroline Talma born Vanhove
n.d. [c. 1820]
1 leaf + 4 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes: on domestic issues, with mentions of several children of the actor. either from different beds, or adopted
Box 14 Folder 7
Tilly, General, to the Minister of War
1798
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 8
Tilly, General, to the Director of Posts
11 Dec. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 9
Tilly, General, to the Director of Posts in Belgium
13 Dec. 1799
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 10
Tollenarre, to ?
24 oct. 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 11a
Tourzel, Louise Elisabeth, Duchesse de, to [Marquis de Dreux-Brézé?]
n.d. [after 1815]
1 leaf + 6 leaves
ALS in French: intercession in favor of Mme de Kleist, who was attached to the children of late King Louis XVI.
Box 14 Folder 11b
Treilhard, Jean-Baptiste
May 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French re: la publication de la liste des citoyens composant le jury d'accusation et de jugement (au tribunal criminel de Paris) pour les mois de juin, juillet et aout 1796.
Box 14 Folder 12
Truguet, to the Minister of Finance
11 April 1796
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 13
Truguet, to the Minister of Finance
24 Febr. 1797
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 14
Vallée, Comte Sylvain Charles
4 Jan. 1834
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Box 14 Folder 15
Vallier, Augustin
1793
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 16
Vernier, to Citizen Gaudin, Minister of Finance
31 March 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 17
Versailles, Comité de Surveillance
10 May 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 18
Versailles, Comité de Surveillance
23 July 1794
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 19
Victor, General [Captain General of Louisiana], to the General Commandant of the French Troops Stationed at Batavia.
[Paris] 6 Nov. 1804
1 leaf + 5 leaves
ALS in French: military orders, plus portraits
Box 14 Folder 14
Vigée-Lebrun, Mme
20 June 1832
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and portraits
Box 14 Folder 15
Vignolle, General Martin, to Delorme
[Ragusa] 14 Aug. 1806
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus translation and notes
Box 14 Folder 16
Vignon, Barthelemy, to the Treasurer of Holland
1809
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 17
Villaret de Joyeuse, to Joseph-Alphonse Esménard
[Martinique] 11 Jan. 1818
1 leaf + 3 leaves
ALS in French, plus partial translation, portrait and notes
Box 14 Folder 18
Villeret, Brun de, to M. Tardieu
n.d.
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 19
Villetard, Alexandre, to the Minister of Finance
1801
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 20
Villetard, Alexandre, to to the Minister of Finance
7 Jan. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 21
Villetard, Alexandre, to the Minister of Finance
15 Jan. 1803
1 leaf
ALS in French
Box 14 Folder 22
Volney de Chasseboeuf, Constantin, to ?
1801
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus t ranslation and portrait
Box 14 Folder 23
Willot, Victor-A., to ?
7 Sept. 1802
1 leaf + 2 leaves
ALS in French, plus notes
Bound Manuscripts
Bound Ms. 1 Item 1
Journal Manuscrit of Claude-Charles Coster, vol.1
19 April - 29 December 1790
1 bound manuscript
Autograph manuscript in French. "Coster le jeune" was born in Nancy in 1741. He pursued a distinguished administrative career, especially under Necker. In 1790-91 he was chef de bureau at the Constituant Assembly, where both his brother Sigisbert, a chanoine de la cathédrale de Verdun, and his brother-in-law, Pierre-Joseph Prugnon, were deputies [a copy of the former's own journal is in the Archives nationales in Paris, C 26 dossier 13]. He kept this political diary in part to keep informed his protector, Marshall Prince of Beauvau-Craon, who was living in his château du Val in Saint-Germain-en-Laye most of the time. His information generally comes straight out of the minutes of the Assembly's meetings. A moderate royalist, Coster mentions the reactions of the public, which he calls "l'excécrable populace de Paris" or "les enragés"; he also reports different events and rumors of plots, arrestations, assassinations, and emigrations, that were the talk of the Assembly.
Bound Ms. 1 Item 2
Journal Manuscrit of Claude-Charles Coster, vol.2
1781-1792 [Bulk 14 March - 18 July 1791]
1 bound manuscript
Follow-up of the journal, plus transcription of revolutionary songs, plus letters sent to Coster between 1781 and December 1792.
Bound Ms. 3 ++
Set of 102 documents, with pages numbered 1-311
1790-1815
1 bound manuscript
Contains, e.g., "un rolle des officiers mariniers, matelots et mousses employés au Lac de Garde", 1796; a report from "Ernoulf, capitaine général de la Guadeloupe et dépendances, au Citoyen Portalis, chargé de toutes les affaires concernant les cultes", 1804; a letter by printer Firmin-Didot to the minister of Finance, about the production of official seals and stamps, 1805; another form the bishop of Mayence calling for the conversion of the Bitche citadel into a church, 1805; and one from the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce to the Minister of Finance protesting the high taxation of beverages, 1814.
Bound Ms. 4 ++
"Registre des délibérations prises par le Comité de surveillance établi au fort de La Malgue [Toulon] le 26 août 1793".
26 August 1793
1 bound manuscipt
Contains a list of the twelve members of this royalist committee as well as a list of the prisoners kept in the fort.
Bound Ms. 7
"Réclamation des courtisanes parisiennes adressée à l'Assemblée nationale concernant l'abolition des titres déshonorants tels que garces, putains, toupies, maquerelles, etc, etc."
[1790] mid 19th century
4 leaves
Manuscript copy of a revolutionary pamphleet. A note indicates that the copyist was the famous Parisian bibliographer Jacques Charles Brunet (1780-1867.)
Bound Ms. 7 ++
Minutes of the correspondence sent by the "Comité général des sections de Toulon"
19 July-4 October 1793
1 bound manuscript
Bound Ms. 8 ++
"Registre des arrêtés et réquisitions pris par les représentants du peuple [près les armées et départements du Midi] Paul Barras et Fréron commencé le 21 brumaire an II de la République [et se terminant le 20 pluviôse]."
Nov. 1793-Febr. 1794
1 bound manuscipt, 68 p.
Documents the revolt of Toulon and the Jacobine repression.
Bound Ms. 9
ALS from Napoléon Bonaparte to Major General Berthier
8 April 1809
1 letter
Strategic instructions for the early stages of the campaign in Germany which culminated in the French victory of Wagram. The letter has been published in the "Correspondance de Napoléon Ier", 1865, vol. 18, nr. 15030.
Bound Ms. 10
Miscellaneae
1779-1790
1 little box containing 2 letters and 6 graphics, numbered 4606 Bd. Ms. 10 /1-8
Includes a letter from Necker to Beaumarchais on the arms-for-tobacco deal with America, 1779 (10-1), another from Calonne to Beaumarchais about a favor made by court banker Micault d'Harvelay, n.d. (10-2), a portrait of Mme Necker (10-3), an allegory of "Time", n.d. (10-4), a caricature of Lafayette, Bailly and d'Orléans as "animaux malfaisants", c. 1790 (10-5), another of Philippe d'Orléans as King of Spades or "Philippe pique", c. 1790 (10-6), another of Lafayette, October 1789 (10-7), and a royalist engraving blasting "[les] brigands furieux [qui] ont mis la france au pillage", n.d. (10-8.)
Bound Ms. 11
"Souvenirs, anecdotes et pensées diverses, ou Morale de l'histoire et des philosophes"
late 18th century
1 bound manuscript
Anonymous volume of "souvenirs" and historical notations, most about ancient Rome, confirming that "the French Revolution was played in Roman clothes" (Karl Marx).
Bound Ms. 12++
"Lettres de cachet"
1755-1791
1 bound manuscript
Contains 141 original documents assembled by A.D. White, mostly related to the judicial system of Old Regime France: lettres de cachet (i.e., letters signed by the king of France [in this case, Louis XVI], countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet [here, 4 letters still bear it]. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgements that could not be appealed; passports and special authorizations to sojourn in Paris (e.g., for Alsatian Jews); also, an order to accommodate the arrival of the future Queen Marie-Antoinette in France in February 1770.