“What does it matter to the drunken spectators in the stands that the gladiators are killing each other in the arena.” The actor Saturnin Fabre sketches his brothers in arms in May 1917, with truculent comments tinged with sedition. Humor and brotherhood.
Handwritten regulations for the minor seminaries in Besançon at the beginning of the 19th century. Warning against paedophilia and homosexuality.
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.
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.
