Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter in French from Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duc de Dalmatie, to General Morgan, 12 May 1812
Item
Identifier: Coll-1383/4/18
Scope and Contents
Letter from Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duc de Dalmatie to General Morgan, informing him that he has appointed him commander of a brigade after General Meunier's departure (possibly Hugues Alexandre Joseph Meunier (1758-1831)). Ste Marie, 12 Mai 1812.
Dates:
12 May 1812
Livre de Raison (Commonplace book)
Collection — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1854
Content Description
This outlandish and colourful manuscript volume is an exceptional resource to understand and study French popular culture in the late 18th-early 19th centuries. Its contents are extremely varied, and include poems, oracles, lyrics of popular songs, proverbs and maxims, recipes, legal document templates, a formulary of letters, calendars, little stories and anecdotes, an account of Napoleon's return to France after his exile on Elba, and a dictionary for the interpretation of dreams. It refers...
Dates:
c 1820-1830
Sermon as component of A proclamation for a public thanksgiving, 1814
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1463
Scope and Contents
Folio. Broadside. Uncut, with some loss to edges. Folded, with some marking and marginal tears. Inscribed at head in 19th century hand, 'Thanksgiving Peace 1814 July' and at foot 'Public worship on Thursday will begin at the usual hour...'.
On verso, the broadside bears a lengthy manuscript copy of a contemporary sermon on 'the great and public blessing of peace' beginning with the 126th Psalm and occupying the entire verso in four columns.
On verso, the broadside bears a lengthy manuscript copy of a contemporary sermon on 'the great and public blessing of peace' beginning with the 126th Psalm and occupying the entire verso in four columns.
Dates:
1814