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Regulations seminaries Besançon
Handwritten regulations for the minor seminaries in Besançon at the beginning of the 19th century. Warning against paedophilia and homosexuality.

 

Giraud La Peyronie in the underworld.
La Peyronie in the underworld, at Minos. Arrest of Pluto against the Faculty of Medicine. Satire by the Franc-Comtois doctor Claude Marie Giraud in praise of Lapeyronie and the Faculty of Medicine. Rare contemporary copy, mid 18th century.

 

Louis XIV 1674 Dole
Letter signed by Louis XIV, addressed from the camp near Dole, three days after the fall of the town following the siege which the Sun King had led in person from 27 May to 6 June 1674.

 

Costumes. Minuscule souvenir de la Suisse
Extremely rare miniature fold-out of Swiss women’s costumes, circa 1820. A precious and delicate testimony of identity, distributed at the time of the creation of the Confederation of the XXII cantons.

 

Almanach 1788 Marie-Antoinette
Almanach with the coat of arms of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France. 1788.