France
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 46.227638;2.213749,Created For = France
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
A Studio Portrait of M[onsieur] Clemenceau, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3170
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a studio portrait of Monsieur [Georges] Clemenceau at the age of 77 [in 1918]. He was known by the nickname, "The Tiger".
Dates:
1870s-1930s
An Account of My Experiences During the Retreat from France, 10th May to 17th June 1940, c1945
File
Identifier: BAI 1/13/7
Scope and Contents
1 handwritten and 3 typewritten manuscripts/copies of an unpublished account of John Baillies experiences during the retreat from France in 1940, together with an issue of the London Gazette and a related telegram of the period.
Dates:
c1945
Card album entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes"
Item — Box CLX-A-1721
Identifier: Coll-2042
Content Description
This is an artfully decorated album issued by the French biscuit manufacturer LU (formerly known as Lefèvre-Utile), entitled "Album des célébrités contemporaines publié par Lefèvre-Utile, Nantes". It contains forty-eight chromolithographed cards featuring famous figures from the arts; each card, embossed with silver or gold, bore a black-and-white photograph portrait of the celebrity along with a relevant colour image and a quotation from the celebrity themselves in praise of LU biscuits. There...
Dates:
c 1901
Churches, Monastaries and Abbeys, c 1914
sub-series
Identifier: Coll-1167/I/4
Scope and Contents
Composite item. Sheet of crumpled paper used as makeshift mount for 6 prints, apparently cut from books. The middle of the sheet has apparently been occupied by a print which has been cut out, leaving a hole (20 x 29 cms). Pencilled note indicates that it was a "View of the Grande Chartreuse before the disolution (sic - dissolution )." There is no other indication of provenance or use, but "Patrick Geddes Centre, Univ. of Edinburgh" is stamped on the back, bottom left hand corner.
Dates:
c 1914
Commonplace book of William H. Peyton
Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description
Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.
Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.
Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.
Dates:
1893-1898
Correspondence from Emmanuel De Margarie, 1883-1907
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/15
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence from Emmanuel De Margarie sub-series consists of:
- 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1883-1907)
Dates:
1883-1907
Correspondence from John Stuart Blackie, 1880-1882
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/9
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence from the John Stuart Blackie sub-series consists of:
- 11 letters written from1880-1882
- 8 press clippings from the Scotsman, most dated 1873, written by John Stuart Blackie
Dates:
1880-1882
Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family, 1864-1871
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/8
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family series consists of:
- 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1864-1871)
Dates:
1864-1871
Correspondence: GA Le Bel to G De Lorenzo, 1869-1914
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/12
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: Albert Auguste de Lapparent to Charles Lapworth sub-series consists of:
- 36 letters, alphabetically arranged (1869-1914)
Dates:
1869-1914
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios, 1880-1906
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios sub-series consists of:
- letters, particularly from Charles Barrios of the Faculty of Science, University of Lille, discussing such items as the 8th International Geological Congress in Paris, 1900, various scientific publications and French volcanoes.
Dates:
1880-1906