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France

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 46.227638;2.213749,Created For = France

Found in 40 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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1 handwritten and 3 typewritten manuscripts/copies of an unpublished account of John Baillies experiences during the retreat from France in 1940, together with an issue of the London Gazette and a related telegram of the period.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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Manuscripts

Booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", 1906-1907

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/Df.7.42
Scope and Contents This is a booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", which contains reproductions of manuscript psalms and two enclosed manuscript letters addressed to Sir William Turner from Paul Mellon, Association Franco-Écossaise, Sorbonne, 1907. The booklet is dedicated to William Turner: "Offert à Monsieur William Turner Recteur de l'Université d'Edimbourg et au Conseil Académique par M. P. Mellon, Secrétaire Général du Comité de Patronage des Étudiants Étrangers...
Dates: 1906-1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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....
Dates: c 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Patrick Geddes in the Middle East

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.

Dates: 1893-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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:


  1. 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1883-1907)
Dates: 1883-1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

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:


  1. 11 letters written from1880-1882
  2. 8 press clippings from the Scotsman, most dated 1873, written by John Stuart Blackie
Dates: 1880-1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H)

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:


  1. 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1864-1871)
Dates: 1864-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

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:


  1. 36 letters, alphabetically arranged (1869-1914)
Dates: 1869-1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

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