France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Andean collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1775
Overview:
A collection of correspondence; government documents, including reports, commissions, decrees, legal proceedings, account books, treasury records, petitions, geographic relations and awards; church documents; writings and poems; and published illustrated materials from the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) on civil, military, economic, religious, and social topics.
Dates:
1538-1996, bulk 1700-1799
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Andean collection
Camille Doucet correspondence
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1554
Overview:
Collection of circa 11,000 letters addressed to Camille Doucet (1812-1895), director of the Superintendance générale des théâtres de France and member of the Académie française, from upwards of 1150 correspondents. It offers rich documentation of the French arts and letters in the second half of the 19th century and, in particular, of Doucet’s influence over French theater in his capacity as head of the administration of theaters in the imperial government of Napoleon III between 1853 and 1870,...
Dates:
1832-1920, bulk 1850-1895