DOCUMENTATION Meeting of works and documentary files. JOB, Tenues des Troupes de France (Combet & Cie, 1901). H. Lachouque, Uniforms of the Imperial Guard after Marbot (Éd. du Chêne, 1968). Napoleon (iconographic album of 87 documents, introd. by Raymond Guyot, Club du livre d'histoire, 1955). J. Langdon-Davies, The Battle of Waterloo (portfolio of reproduced documents). J. and R. Brunon, Hussards (reprod. of gouaches by gal Barbier, Marseille). Collections & souvenirs of Malmaison, introd. by Jean Bourguignon (Au Masque d'or). L'Histoire à la une, 1er janvier 1900-7 mai 1945, foreword by André Maurois (Tallandier 1965; collection of newspaper facsimiles). Documentary files on Voltaire's Pandora, the letters of Alexander II of Russia, the manuscripts of Ayn Rand. Video cassette Bateau fantasque.

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