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Gilbert Chinard Collection of French Historical Material

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The collection contains miscellaneous French manuscripts, correspondence, documents,photographs, and broadsides and other printed matter collected by Chinard:18th-century material of the Tarbé family, including manuscripts of poems, songs, andtheatrical works, correspondence, and printe matter of Louis-Hardouin Tarbé(1753-1806), and correspondence of his father, a Sens (France) printer; miscellaneous18th- and 19th-century papers of the Sorrel family, including letters written byAntoine-François Sorrel (1737-1830) to his father before becoming a cartographer andengineer on Saint Dominigue, West Indies; letters by the French writer Jules Claretie(1840-1913); bound manuscripts--a treatise dealing with the "respective powers andprerogatives of the royal power," a French textbook on geometry for children, and19th-century French specifications for artillery emplacements and carriages; andletters by Pope Pius VII, cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, and archbishops ofSens.In addition, there are documents dating from the Revolutionary and Republicanperiods, including letters (1788-1797) from the French consul in Baltimore concerningpolitical and economic relations between France and Maryland; some material about theAmerican explorer John Charles Fremont, including a brief biography, a pencilportrait, and a letter by him to Alexander Vattemare; several folders of 18th-centuryLouisiana material; and about 90 letters (1699-1889) in English, mostly by minorwriters and artists.