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Photo, Print, DrawingPiece of the Charlemagne Chess Set: The Pawn. The famous chess set called the Jeu d'échec de Charlemagne (Charlemagne's chess set) was once part of the treasury of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. It was made near Salerno, Italy, at the end of the 11th century. It was long thought to have belonged to Charlemagne, who was said to have received it as a gift from Caliph Harun al-Rashid. In fact, this cannot...- Date: 1075-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMonument Dedicated to the Exercise of Sovereignty of the People in Primary Assemblies.
Monument destiné à l'exercice de la souveraineté du peuple en Assemblées Primaires This design for a monument to popular sovereignty was produced by the French artist and designer Jean Jacques Lequeu (1757--1826) at the time of the French Revolution. After gaining a solid education as an architect and making a promising start to his career, Lequeu failed to channel his architectural and philosophical ideas into concrete projects that would ensure him fame. Lequeu was a man...- Contributor: Lequeu, Jean-Jacques, 1825
- Date: 1794-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of France Divided into Départements, Subdivided into Arrondissements.
Carte de la France divisée en départemens, subdivisée en arrondissemens communaux This 1806 map of France shows the division of the country into départements (regions) and arrondissements (districts). The modern départements were created in 1790, following the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly, partly to weaken the old military and historical loyalties of the provinces and create a more coherent and loyal national system. Each département was run by...- Contributor: Belleyme, Pierre De - Barrière, Le Père
- Date: 1806-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialCorvey Gospel Fragment. This manuscript consists of four folios from a Gospel book that was likely made at the monastery of Corvey in western Germany during the mid-to-late tenth century. Dating to the reign of Otto I, these pages are a magnificent example of early Ottonian manuscript illumination. The heavily ornamented pages, which introduce the Gospels of Luke and John, shine with gold and jewel-like colors against...- Date: 0900-01-01
- Resource: - 26 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingPortraits of Louis the Great at Various Ages.
Portraits de Louis le Grand suivant ses âges Shown here is a bronze engraving on which ten medallions are attached, each of which contains, behind a glass plate, a portrait of Louis XIV (the Sun King) at a different stage of his life. The portraits are painted in grey tones on paper glued onto metal, and they depict the king at five, ten, 16, 22, 28, 34, 40, 46, 54 and 59...- Contributor: Benoist, Antoine
- Date: 1690-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialEurope, a prophecy The English poet, illustrator, and engraver William Blake (1757-1827) first published Europe, A Prophecy in 1794, one year after the appearance of his America, A Prophecy. In both books, Blake attempted to discern the pattern behind human history, and in particular in the momentous events occurring on both sides of Atlantic between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the outbreak of...- Contributor: Blake, William - Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) - Gaisford, Thomas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bedford, Francis
- Date: 1794-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThrone of Dagobert.
Trône de Dagobert This cast and chiseled bronze and partially gilded throne from the art collections of the National Library of France belonged to Dagobert I (circa 603--39), king of the Franks 629--34, considered the last powerful Merovingian king. Four protomes of panthers form the feet and legs; the armrests consist of two carved and perforated panels, decorated with rosettes (bottom) and plant motifs (upper register). The...- Date: 0603-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFranc à cheval, John II.
Franc à cheval, Jean II The franc à cheval was ordered issued on December 5, 1360 to finance the ransom of King John II (born 1319; reigned, 1350--64), who had been taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, during the Hundred Years' War. The ransom totaled a vast 3 million écus, and the fact that the coin was used to secure the release of...- Contributor: Jean II, King of France
- Date: 1360-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialGallican Lectionary, from the Luxeuil Abbey.
Lectionarius gallicanus The manuscript presented here, Latin 9427 in the collections of the National Library of France, was produced in the seventh century, most likely at the Luxeuil Abbey in eastern France, where it later was discovered by the Benedictine scholar Jean Mabillon (1632-1707). Often referred to as the Luxeuil Lectionary, it is an important source for understanding the Gallican Rite, the rite that prevailed in...- Date: 0650-01-01
- Resource: - 522 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe History of Modern France. Tarikh Faransa al-Hadith (The history of modern France) is a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte rather than, as suggested by the title, a general history of France. The author states that "France is the closest country to us in the Orient commercially and linguistically. We have chosen this topic as serviceable history, that is, the fundamental art upon which public policies, action, and planning are...- Contributor: Dahdah, Khattar, 1922 - Bustānī, Salīm
- Date: 1884-01-01
- Resource: - 524 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialDéfénse des colons de Saint-Domingue, ou, Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, en ce qu'elle a particulièrement de relatif aux colonies
Examen des droits de l'homme | Défénse des colons de Saint-Domingue | Examen rapide de la nouvelle Déclaration des droits de l'homme, en ce qu'elle a particulièrement de relatif aux colonies The French Revolution of 1789 had enormous repercussions in France's Caribbean colonies. In August 1791, slaves in the colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events that ultimately led to the founding of Haiti in 1804. In 1792, the de facto government of revolutionary France sent commissioners to the colony to enforce a decree by the National Assembly...- Contributor: Bordes, J. Marie De - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Confession of a Child of the Century.
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (Confession of a child of the century) is a novel written by the French poet Alfred de Musset (1810--57) when he was 26 years old. It depicts the love affair of a young man named Octave, who, betrayed by his mistress, becomes cynical and drowns his sorrows in alcohol and debauchery. He then falls in love with Brigitte,...- Contributor: Musset, Alfred De
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPortraits of the Royal Family.
Portraits de la Maison Royale Shown here is a bronze engraving, on which ten miniatures are attached, each of which contains the portrait of a different individual who was a member of or associated with the French royal family. The portraits are painted in grey tones on parchment (portrait of Louis XIV) or directly on copper. The miniatures, by Antoine Benoist (1632-1717), painter and wax sculptor of the king,...- Contributor: Benoist, Antoine
- Date: 1704-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialLaws of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue.
Lois de la colonie française de Sainte-Domingue Toussaint Louverture (circa 1743-1803) was the leader of the slave revolt and independence movement in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) during the French Revolution. He won military victories over the French colonial forces and then negotiated an arrangement under which the colony became self-governing as a French protectorate. Lois de la Colonie française de Saint-Domingue (Laws of the French colony of Saint-Domingue)...- Contributor: Toussaint Louverture
- Date: 1801-01-01
- Resource: - 87 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingGreat Olympic Circus with Brothers Luigi and Giovanni Guillaume.
Gran Circo Olimpico fratelli Luigi e Giovanni Guillaume Presented here is an advertising poster for the performance of the equestrian acrobats of Luigi and Giovanni Guillaume's company Gran Circo Olimpico (Great Olympic Circus), dated May 24, 1846, and issued by Taddei, a local printer in Ferrara. The Guillaume family, hailing from France, was the most active dynasty in the Italian circus scene in the 19th century. No certain documentation on their origins...- Date: 1846-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBeaupré Antiphonary, Volume One. Illuminated in Hainaut around 1280 and completed in 1290, this collection of richly decorated Cistercian manuscripts is a rare example of those being produced in Flanders at the end of the 13th century. Eighteen extant large historiated initials, flourished and decorated initials, and an abundance of amusing drolleries facilitate a liturgical narrative from the text. However, additions and removals within the text and imagery...- Contributor: Toussens, Johannes De
- Date: 1290-01-01
- Resource: - 468 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBeaupré Antiphonary, Volume Two. Illuminated in Hainaut around 1280 and completed in 1290, this collection of richly decorated Cistercian manuscripts is a rare example of those being produced in Flanders at the end of the 13th century. Fourteen extant large historiated initials, flourished and decorated initials, and an abundance of amusing drolleries facilitate a liturgical narrative within the text. However, additions and removals within the text and imagery...- Contributor: Toussens, Johannes De
- Date: 1290-01-01
- Resource: - 550 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBeaupré Antiphonary, Volume Three. Illuminated in Hainaut around 1280 and completed in 1290, this collection of richly decorated Cistercian manuscripts is a rare example of those being produced in Flanders at the end of the 13th century. Nineteen extant large historiated initials, flourished and decorated initials, and an abundance of amusing drolleries facilitate a liturgical narrative from the text. However, additions and removals within the text and imagery...- Contributor: Toussens, Johannes De
- Date: 1290-01-01
- Resource: - 562 pages
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MapMap of the empire of Germany. From: Kitchin, General atlas describing the whole universe. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Delarochette, L. (Louis)
- Date: 1782-01-01
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MapPlan de Monaco. Scale ca. 1:6,000. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Tome IV, no. 72." Covers commune of Monaco. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. Vault AACR2- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1764-01-01
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MapPlan du canton de Plimouth et partie des Baradéres. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the bottom. Shows eastern limits as of 1781 and 1790 and names of owners of real property tracts. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 650; 651- Contributor: Frignet
- Date: 1790-01-01
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MapJeu géographique de la République Française : présenté à la Convention Nationale Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Consists of maps of the departments of France in a spiral arrangement designed as a game. Includes text of game rules and indexed table of administrative divisions. Insets: Isle St. Domingue.--Comtat Venessain avant sa réunion à la France.--La France divisiée en LXXXIII départemen[t]s avec les chefs-lieux. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...- Contributor: Mauborgne, J. N. - Basset (Firm)
- Date: 1795-01-01
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MapDirection des Iles du Vent, Ile de Tabago, 1er germinal an 11 : plan du fort Scarborough ci-devant de Castries, tel qu'il a été livre'aux troupes françaises, par les Anglais, le 15. ... Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Includes index and relief profile. Printed label mounted verso: Ch. Picquet, géographe ordinaire du roi et du S.A.S. Monseigr. le Duc d'Orléans. A Paris, Quai de Conti no. 17, entre l'Hôtel des Monnaies et el Pont des Arts. Handwritten on label: Ile de Tabago. Plan du fort de Scarborough ci-devant de Castries. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 811 Available also through the Library...- Date: 1811-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialZionism. "Authorities": p. 48.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 4 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAlsace-Lorraine. Appendix p. ([108]-116) : Préliminaires de paix, le 26 février, 1871.--Traité de paix le 10 mai, 1871.--Declaration of the representative of Alsace and Lorraine, February 16, 1871. "Authorities" : p. [117]-119.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 5 pages
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