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France

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen

 Collection — Box BW 61, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS-16947
Content Description This collection contains a leather-bound handwritten manuscript copy of the 1789 Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, comprising the preamble and all seventeen articles, produced by Jenny Ricard, a fourteen-year-old girl from Nîmes, France. Stamped on the front and back binding is "LA LOI" and "LE ROI" in gilt. The text is written in brown ink throughout, with decorative titles and section headings rendered in red ink and red capitals. The manuscript is signed at the end: "Nîmes...
Dates: 1792

Livre pour la remede pour les chevaux [Book of the remedy for horses]

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032762279]
Identifier: MSS 16817
Content Description This collection contains an anonymous author's unpublished vernacular manuscript on equine health. This manuscript was likely used as a tool by veterinarians or educated farmers in western France in the middle of the eighteenth century. The manuscript is divided into two parts. The first and longer part occupies the first 178 pages and is in a single legible hand. The second part, likely in a different and somewhat later hand, comprises the last eight pages.The first part of the...
Dates: c.1741-1760

Livre pour la remede pour les chevaux [Book of the remedy for horses]

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: X032762279]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0124