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[Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917)]. 54 L.A.S. to him, 1883-1912. Important correspondence received by the famous archivist, historian and bibliographer.It deals with various subjects of an artistic, literary or bibliophilic nature: dispatch of autograph catalogs devoted to Buffon, Rousseau and Voltaire; discovery in the Archives nationales of correspondence between Boisgelin and the Countess de Gramont; exhibition of Carayon bindings at the Palais de l'Industrie in 1894; request for support from a sculptor to have one of his works purchased by the State; request for information on an 18th-century spinet; announcement of a sale of books, engravings and autographs in Bar-le-Duc, with request for advice from M. Charavay; request for information on a conventioneer; preparation of the table for the Archives de l'art français; theses on Charles Duclos and Marmontel; research on Buffon; conferences in Oxford; project to create the Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque nationale (1905); etc.The letters were written by librarians, historians, archivists, teachers, artists and politicians: Pierre Bertrand, of the Revue historique; Albert Cans, teacher at Lycée Hoche in Versailles; Émile Carayon, painter and bookbinder; Marcel Debut, sculptor; A. Dufour, librarian in Corbeil; Henri de l'Isle, former captain and collector; Raymond Koechlin, general secretary of the Société des amis du Louvre; Auguste Kuscinski, author of the Dictionnaire des conventionnels; Jean Laran, art historian, curator of the Cabinet des estampes; Léopold Le Bourgo, librarian-archivist for the city of Lorient; Scipion Lenel, teacher at the Lycée d'Amiens; Jules Maciet, vice-president of the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs; Eugène Manuel, poet; Matry, librarian at Semur; Charles Maunoir, geographer; Jacques de Nouvion, journalist; René Paquet d'Hauteroche, historian and ornithologist; Victor Perrot, from the Commission du Vieux Paris; Ernest Prarond, Latinist and historian; Bernard Prost, general inspector of libraries; Lucien Raulet, Société de l'histoire de Paris; Mario Roustan, man of letters; Adrien Sée, magistrate and historian; Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, historian; Ambroise Tardieu, archaeologist; Charles Tranchant, archivist; Gabriel Trarieux, poet and novelist; etc.

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[Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917)]. 54 L.A.S. to him, 1883-1912. Important correspondence received by the famous archivist, historian and bibliographer.It deals with various subjects of an artistic, literary or bibliophilic nature: dispatch of autograph catalogs devoted to Buffon, Rousseau and Voltaire; discovery in the Archives nationales of correspondence between Boisgelin and the Countess de Gramont; exhibition of Carayon bindings at the Palais de l'Industrie in 1894; request for support from a sculptor to have one of his works purchased by the State; request for information on an 18th-century spinet; announcement of a sale of books, engravings and autographs in Bar-le-Duc, with request for advice from M. Charavay; request for information on a conventioneer; preparation of the table for the Archives de l'art français; theses on Charles Duclos and Marmontel; research on Buffon; conferences in Oxford; project to create the Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque nationale (1905); etc.The letters were written by librarians, historians, archivists, teachers, artists and politicians: Pierre Bertrand, of the Revue historique; Albert Cans, teacher at Lycée Hoche in Versailles; Émile Carayon, painter and bookbinder; Marcel Debut, sculptor; A. Dufour, librarian in Corbeil; Henri de l'Isle, former captain and collector; Raymond Koechlin, general secretary of the Société des amis du Louvre; Auguste Kuscinski, author of the Dictionnaire des conventionnels; Jean Laran, art historian, curator of the Cabinet des estampes; Léopold Le Bourgo, librarian-archivist for the city of Lorient; Scipion Lenel, teacher at the Lycée d'Amiens; Jules Maciet, vice-president of the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs; Eugène Manuel, poet; Matry, librarian at Semur; Charles Maunoir, geographer; Jacques de Nouvion, journalist; René Paquet d'Hauteroche, historian and ornithologist; Victor Perrot, from the Commission du Vieux Paris; Ernest Prarond, Latinist and historian; Bernard Prost, general inspector of libraries; Lucien Raulet, Société de l'histoire de Paris; Mario Roustan, man of letters; Adrien Sée, magistrate and historian; Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, historian; Ambroise Tardieu, archaeologist; Charles Tranchant, archivist; Gabriel Trarieux, poet and novelist; etc.

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