Inventory
The French Pamphlet Collection of the Marylandia and Rare Books Department is divided inot two parts, the first part containing 5,739 pamphlets, dating from 1620-1966. The collection is divided into three series, arranged alphabetically by topic.
PartI
Series 1 contains 17th-century documents through the Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic Era in 1815. The 17th through 18th-century items include government documents from Louis XIII to Louis XVI. The Revolutionary period contains government documents which center on the first ten years of the Revolution, 1790-1799, and include over seventeen hundred decrees and laws published from 1789-1795. Among other Revolutionary journals are sixty-four in a series of the famous Pere Duchene by D'Herbois.
Series 2 contains one hundred eight 19th-century documents arranged chronologically, including oversize posters and broadsides. France and the Middle East begins in Series 2 in 1855.
Series 3 contains two hundred fifty-two documents mostly on the topic of France and the Middle East. These documents center on the conflict with the Ottoman Empire between 1900-1924, which includes World War I.
PART II This portion contains nearly 2,000 pamphlets, primarily from the period of the French Revolution, described at the item level.
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