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Total number of records: 793

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Societe Des Nouveautes Textiles283
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Le diable à Paris : Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris... etc., etc. Texte par MM. George Sand, P.-J. Stahl ... [et autres] précédé d'une histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée (v.1)

Sand, George (1804-1876); Lavalléc, Théophile Sébastien (1804-1866); Gavarni, Paul (1804-1866)

1845-46

Title varies. The plan, which appears in v.2 in some copies of this edition, is wanting in the present copy.

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Le diable à Paris : Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris... etc., etc. Texte par MM. George Sand, P.-J. Stahl ... [et autres] précédé d'une histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée (v.2)

Sand, George (1804-1876); Lavalléc, Théophile Sébastien (1804-1866); Gavarni, Paul (1804-1866)

1845-46

Title varies. The plan, which appears in v.2 in some copies of this edition, is wanting in the present copy.

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Coin

Denomination: douzain

Date(s): 1558-1558

Issuer/creator: Henri II (1547-59)

Place: Paris

Material: billon


Coin

Denomination: double tournois

Date(s): 1606-1606

Issuer/creator: Henri IV (1572-1610)

Place: Paris

Material: copper alloy


Coin

Denomination: double tournois

Date(s): 1625-1625

Issuer/creator: Louis XIII (1610-43)

Place: Paris

Material: copper alloy


Coin

Denomination: double tournois

Date(s): 1626-1626

Issuer/creator: Louis XIII (1610-43)

Place: Paris

Material: copper alloy


Coin

Denomination: twelfth écu

Date(s): 1660-1660

Issuer/creator: Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Place: Paris

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: twelfth écu

Date(s): 1719-1719

Issuer/creator: Louis XV (1715-74)

Place: Paris

Material: silver


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Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : Handbook for travellers

Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859); Karl Baedeker (Firm)

1884

Cover title: Baedeker's Paris and its environs.

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Les types de Paris

Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896)

[1889]

Contents: Préface: Jean-François Raffaëlli, par A. Wolf.--Tournées de province. Delaunay à vingt ans, par A. Daudet.--Les petites marchandes des rues, par H. Gréville.--Bohèmes en villégiature...

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