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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:

Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961

 Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents

The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:


  1. articles, cuttings and ephemera
  2. career/employment resumés and references
  3. correspondence
  4. memorials and letters of condolence
Dates: 1908-1961

Scenes of Europe

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1167/E
Scope and Contents

In 2020, there are only glass plate negatives and photographic prints within this series.

Dates: 1753-c 1985

Sheep in France and Western Germany, 1966

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/230
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1965 - 1966. Volume 4 of 19.

Dates: 1966

Sketches of shells with notes, 1856

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 226-228
Scope and Contents

Sketches of shells with notes featuring Helix Aquensis from France, Helix Cariosula and Helix Depressula from North Africa by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, with envelope, 1856.

Dates: 1856

Song beginning 'U o laoill o A hio naileibh', 21 November 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/133
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Ranald MacDonald, Tarasaigh/Taransay, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris at Trumaisegearraidh/Trumisgarry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist beginning 'U o laoill o A hio naileibh, A mhnathan nach tog sibh leibh m eubha'. The song is composed of eleven lines, the first line is noted as being repeated. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 21 November 1870

Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid, 7 April 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/48
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid mac mhic ic Aileain' [Marbhrann do Thormaid]', beginning 'Fhuaras neac an dè', collected from Donald MacDonald, age 6, Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. Tormod, for whom the lament was written, was a young nobleman who died of yellow fever while in France. Text has been scored through as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 7 April 1869

Story about Aonas mac Neil, 20 January 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/153
Scope and Contents Story collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about Aonas mac Neil [Aonghas MacNeil or Angus MacNeil] that he was the person who disturbed the grave of the child of the daughter of the King of France and that he was an atheist who said that there was no 'hereaft[e]r & that the soul of a man when if left a man crept along a dyke side like a biast till it met the first closach eich [horse corpse] & went...
Dates: 20 January 1871

Story about the origins of Rònaidh and the place-name Leòdhais, 27 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/25
Scope and Contents

Story about the origins of Rònaidh/North Rona that it was made from part of the Butt of Lewis, while Rìgh Lochlainn tried to drag the Long Island to Lochlann [Rubha Robhanais, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] dropping out of a creel, as did Sula Sgeir. It also states that the place-name Leòdhais/Lewis is connected to Rìgh Lochlainn and one of his two sons and France.

Dates: 27 October 1873

The Growth of Christian Architecture as Exemplified by some French Cathedrals, c1916

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/13/10
Scope and Contents

Typescript of The Growth of Christian Architecture as Exemplified by some French Cathedrals, the text of a lecture John Baillie gave while in France during the First World War.

Dates: c1916

YMCA, 1916-1953

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/21
Scope and Contents

YMCA consists of:


  1. circulars, pamphlets and reports
Dates: 1916-1953