French and Italian Studies

French and Italian Studies materials in the Manuscripts Division range from the Medieval era to the 20th Century.

Medieval French and Italian collections include Album Palaeographicum...1285-1629 (M0388) and the Miscellaneous documents, 1326-1867 (M0535)

French and Italian materials from the Eighteenth Century include the De Pichon Family Papers, 1711-1907 (M0563), the France. Sovereigns, etc., 1715-1774 (Louis XV). Caisse generale des amortissements etablie par Edit du Mois de Decembre 1764, 1766-1775. (M0301), the Gimon (Gustave) Collection of French Political Economy : ephemera, 1669-1880 (M0910), and the Marthod Family Papers, 1748-1856 (M0307), and the Anton Francesco Montauti Papers, 1670-1723 (M0320).

Nineteenth Century collections include the Anderson Family Papers (M0243), the De Pichon Family Papers, 1711-1907 (M0563), Gustave Gimon Collection of French Political Economy : ephemera, 1669-1880 (M0910), Marthod Family Papers, 1748-1856 (M0307), and the Achille Murat Papers, 1809-1845 (M0079).

More contemporary materials from the Twentieth Century include the Albert L. Guerard Papers, 1909-1959 (M0016), as well as the Albert L. Guerard Correspondence with Albert Thierry (M0899), and Louis-Sebastien Mercier's Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred : typescript, n.d. (M0196).

Sara Sussman is the incumbent curator responsible for selecting manuscript collections that fall into this area; Ms. Sussman will begin in this capacity starting September 2002. For a description of collecting activities in this area to date, please refer to the French and Italian Studies home page.