[CASAULX (Charles de) - MARCHAND (J.M.). Manuscript of anecdotes and facts told during the consulship of Charles Cazaulx in Marseille between 1591 and 1596, accompanied by drawings by Joseph Martin Marchand. Marseille (?), circa 1800. 4 volumes in folio totaling 342 carefully handwritten or illustrated leaves, hand-cut and numbered, painted edges, stiff vellum, cords (period binding). Charles de Cazault, criminal, intriguer, took power in Marseille in 1591. Assisted by Louis Daix, the second consul, they filled the city of Marseille with fear and confusion. He was assassinated by Libertat in February 1596 and Daix escaped on a galley of Doria, with a son and daughter of Cazault. This story is authentic according to Papon in his history of Provence. The one written afterwards in the notebooks is real or imaginary. There is no trace of these secondary events in historical works. These notebooks contain very beautiful drawings, which are originals, made by the author of this history, Joseph Martin Marchand, born in 1758, a painter from Marseilles. These 71 FULL PAGE DRAWINGS show a mysterious alphabet, the 3 doors of the diviners, the tomb and the portrait of Nostradamus, the book of Dioscorides, the mysterious strips on 10 sheets and which put end to end form a strip of approximately 4 meters, the lodges 7, 9 and 10 with the proverbs, the incantation of the diviners, music, the country house of Cazault,... and at the end of the last volume 22 large allegorical, esoteric or mystical drawings in ink or pencil, all captioned by the artist. These 4 lines at the beginning: "I am not a man of letters, in all professions each one makes his journal, me as an artist, I had fun making mine in writing, in notes and in drawing". The artist who wrote very legibly and above all illustrated this manuscript has been identified as J.M. Marchand, by Régis Bertrand in "Collectionneurs et érudits marseillais de la fin du XVIII° siècle et Joseph Martin Marchand, un homme en révolution p. 175-189". EXCEPTIONAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT.