Finance, Public -- France
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lavoisier manuscript collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4712
Abstract
Antoine Laurent Lavoisie (born 1743) and his wife, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier (born 1758) were both French chemists. The Lavoisier manuscript collection (1766-1834) contains materials by, to or about Antoine and Marie, including material on their scientific work, correspondence, manuscripts, certificates, deeds, contracts, plates for publications, maps and drawings, memorabilia and artifacts.
Dates:
1766 - 1834; Majority of material found within 1770 - 1794
Maurepas collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4614
Scope and content
Manuscripts, documents, and correspondence from Maurepas's administrative files, documenting his activities as overseer of the country's maritime affairs and of the royal household. Includes letters and documents concerning the War of the Austrian Succession, France's support for the Jacobite cause of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, in England, and other aspects of French foreign policy; the finances of the French navy; diplomatic relations and commerce with other countries such as...
Dates:
1694 - 1749; Majority of material found within 1740 - 1749
Paris Commune placards
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6562
Scope and content
About 200 items, mainly placards used to publicize decrees, news, and propaganda from the revolutionary government day by day throughout the Commune period. Topics covered range over most aspects of government and military administration, including provisions for employment, payment of workers, elections, raising revenues, requisitioning horses and vehicles for the National Guard, efforts to raise and regulate an infantry, artillery, and cavalry, conscription of all able-bodied men between...
Dates:
March-May 1871.