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Total number of records: 1853

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SubjectCount
courts and courtiers118
travel64
manners and customs40
politics and government32
war32
french literature26
history26
littérature française21
revolutionaries17
architecture13

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France863
Paris (France)123
Great Britain59
Europe29
Grande-Bretagne19
England10
Versailles (France)10
United States9
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Prussia (Germany)7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)747
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793116
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)75
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-179360
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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History of Maria Antoinette

Abbott, John S C (1805-1877); Sinclair, Thomas S (1805-1881); Harper & Brothers

1857

With an extra, illustrated title page in color / lith. of T. Sinclair, Phila.

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History of Maria Antoinette

Abbott, John S C (1805-1877)

[1849]

Parentage and childhood -- Bridal days -- Maria Antoinette enthroned -- The diamond necklace -- The mob at Versailles -- The palace a prison -- The flight -- The return to Paris -- Imprisonment in the...

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History of Maria Antoinette

Abbott, John S C (1805-1877)

[1849]

Parentage and childhood -- Bridal days -- Maria Antoinette enthroned -- The diamond necklace -- The mob at Versailles -- The palace a prison -- The flight -- The return to Paris -- Imprisonment in the...

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La reine Marie Leckzinska

Armaillé, Marie Célestine Amélie de Ségur comtesse d' (1830-1918)

1870

"Pièces justificatives": pages [193]-237.

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Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt (v.1)

Auvigny, Jean du Castre M. d' (1712-1743); Gunning, Miss (1769-1823); Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot (1685-1745)

1796

Anonymous. By Jean du Castre d'Auvigny and Pierre François Guyot. Another issue of the edition of 1796 with the imprint: 'printed for H. Lowndes; and Vernor and Hood', but with a different titlepage...

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Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt (v.2)

Auvigny, Jean du Castre M. d' (1712-1743); Gunning, Miss (1769-1823); Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot (1685-1745)

1796

Anonymous. By Jean du Castre d'Auvigny and Pierre François Guyot. Another issue of the edition of 1796 with the imprint: 'printed for H. Lowndes; and Vernor and Hood', but with a different titlepage...

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Germaine : a portrait of Madame de Staël

Andrews, Wayne

1964

Bibliography: p. 223-229.

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Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderley) : recorded in letters of a hundred years ago, from 1776 to 1796

Stanley, Maria Josepha Stanley baroness (1771-1863); Adeane, Jane H (1842-1926)

1896

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Memoirs of Madame Junot, duchesse d'Abrantes : in three volumes (v.1)

Abrantès, Laure Junot duchesse d' (1784-1838)

1883

At head of title: Napoleon, his court and family.

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