Scope and Contents This collection consists of handwritten copies of 18th-century French literary works by such authors as Condillac, Florian, and Voltaire. It was donated to Saint Louis University by Frederick Saugrain, son of early St. Louis settler Dr. Antoine Francois Saugrain. Either or both of these men may have been the copyist of the pieces preserved here, which perhaps served as educational aids at a time when both books and schools were in short supply in the Mississippi Valley. This...

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These handwritten copies of "Cours d'Etude pour l'instruction Du Prince de Parme" by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac circa 1758 are complete through Livre Quatorzieme of "L'Histoire Moderne" and are in ten volumes.

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Discourse of Napoleon Bonaparte to the Senate and the Ligislature at Paris, 8 January 1810, extracted from New Orleans Gazette, etc., followed by copies and extracts in other papers, including the Missouri Gazette (St. Louis) of Napoleon's decrees, speeches, etc.

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Extract from Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) edition of 1775. Also, an extract from La Science de Bonhomme Richard by Benjamin Franklin and Le Lutrin, a heroic-comic poem.

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Fables by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794), placed in new order by L.F. Jauffret, editor of posthumous lives.

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Galatee, a pastoral imitative of Michel de Cervantes Saavedra, preface to Don Quixote, Life of Cervantes, and miscellaneous poems by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794).

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Nouvelle by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794) of the French Academy, and those of Madrid and Florence. Dedicated to the Princess of Lamballe.

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Numa Pompilius second Roi de Rome by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794).

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Essay upon The Pastoral by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794), including tale or novel Estelle.

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Plays by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794).