PAS-DE-CALAIS. ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARRAS. 1829. Diploma of corresponding member with the Société Royale pour l'Encouragement des Sciences des Lettres et des Arts d'Arras, awarded to Aimé MARTIN Professor of the École Polytechnique. Signed by the Society's President, Chancellor and Permanent Secretary. Diploma (25.5 x 29 cm). Margins cut. Vignette of the Société Royale d'Arras, founded in 1817 (Louis-Aimé MARTIN (Lyon 1782-1847) was appointed Professor of History and Belles-lettres at the Athénée, Professor at the École Polytechnique and Curator at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. He was a pupil and friend of BERNARDIN-DE-SAINT-PIERRE, whose widow he married and edited his works).

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