MENUS ON SILK MENUS SUR SOIE - Menu for the banquet offered to President Félix FAURE by the city of LYON on February 29, 1896 at the Hôtel de Ville. Printed and illustrated gilt silk cover, embellished with gilt fleurons in spandrels, 4 pp. inside on a printed and illustrated cream fringed silk piece, retained by a tricolor bookmark, menu followed by the musical program. Enclosed is the menu for the luncheon offered to President Faure by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce [March 1, 1896], 2 pieces of fringed silk sewn together around a small metal bar terminated by two tricolored cords: the first engraved in black and gold letters on ivory silk (menu), the second engraved in black letters on gold silk (program).

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