A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

BARRY O`MEARA: (d. 1836) British naval surgeon who attended Napoleon at St. Helena and supervised the exiled dictator's autopsy. Especially rare...

FRANCOIS de BARBE-MARBOIS: (1745-1837) French politician who served as Napoleon's Minister of Finance and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase (180...

JEAN JACQUES CAMBACERES: (1753-1824) Second consul under Napoleon and one of Napoleon's chief advisors, named Archchancellor of the Empire and D...

CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLYRAND: (1754 - 1838) French statesman who proposed the confiscation and sale of church lands, Napoleon's Minister of Fore...

CHARLES X: (1757 - 1836) King of France who regained the throne upon the Restoration (1824), his draconian rule brought about the July 27 Revolution w

(PHILIP IV): (1268 - 1314) King of France known as "The Fair", remembered for bringing the Templars down. Document from his reign, 1p. fol...

FRANZ VON PAPEN: (1879 - 1969) Chancellor of Germany and Vice Chancellor in Hitler's early years of power, von Papen was accused and later acqui...

(CHARLES VI OF FRANCE): (1368 - 1422) King of France, son and successor of King Charles V, said to have gone mad after stealing the arm of a death mar

(PHILIP VI OF FRANCE: (1328 - 1350) King of France, first King of the House of Valois. Document from his reign, 1p. folio, [n.p.], Dec. 17, 1342, a vi

(CHARLES V): (1337 - 1380) King of France strengthened by the failure of the Jacquerie, regained lands from the English which they had received in ran