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Total number of records: 1901

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
courts and courtiers123
travel65
manners and customs41
politics and government38
war32
french literature26
history26
littérature française21
revolutionaries17
architecture13

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France892
Paris (France)128
Great Britain68
Europe38
Grande-Bretagne20
England10
Versailles (France)10
United States9
Paris7
Prussia (Germany)7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)800
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793117
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)75
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-179361
Louis XVII, of France, 1785-179539
Genlis, Stephanie Felicité Comtesse De (1746-1830)32
Moore, John (1729-1802)26
Stawell, Mrs Rodolph25
Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Leon Baron De (1786-1864)24
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-182124

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Pencheon Collection

1700-2000

James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982) was a consultant psychiatrist, based in Cornwall. He graduated MB, ChB at Leeds in 1949. Pencheon’s collection is not concerned with psychiatry, but with the Fre...

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The greatest collector : Lord Hertford and the founding of the Wallace Collection

Mallett, Donald; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982); Wallace Collection (London, England)

1979

Ill. on lining papers.

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French revolutionary collections in the British Library : list of the contents of the three special collections of pamphlets, journals, and other works in the British Library, relating chiefly to the French Revolution

Fortescue, George Knottesford (1847-1912); Brodhurst, A C; British Library. Department of Printed Books

1979

First ed. by British Museum Department of Printed Books, published in 1899 under title: List of the contents of the three collections of books, pamphlets, and journals in the British Museum relating t...

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The reign of terror : a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre. Written by eye-witnesses of the scenes (v.i)

Jourgniac de Saint Méard, François (1827); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1826

Written by François Jourgniac de St. Méard and others.

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