PARIS – RARE COLLECTION OF 311 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENT - Lot 3

PARIS – RARE COLLECTION OF 311 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS ON THE CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES OF PARIS FROM THE 17th, 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and 14 engravings, namely: (The power of the Paris clergy was shattered by the 1789 law abolishing the clergy. Many Parisian churches, monasteries, and religious buildings were destroyed and sold as national property. Documents dating from before or during the Revolution are rare): Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois (8 items / from 1627 to 1819): Receipts for annuities, report on the funeral procession and burial of a kitchen boy from the household of Monseigneur de Longueville, letter from the first vicar + Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève (5 documents / 1651–1806): Receipt for the heirs of Reverend Father LOISEAU, a monk of Sainte-Geneviève; letter from the attorney general of the Order of the Canons of Sainte-Geneviève; certificate signed by RONDELET, former architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève and member of the Institute… + Catherine du Val des Écoliers in Val-des-Écoliers (9 documents / 1545 (copy from 1613), 1647–1798); New title deed. Lease granted by the Priors of St. Catherine. Deed of conveyance. Annuity payable to the Priory. Judgment. (The convent and church were demolished) + Document signed by Louis Antoine, Archbishop of Paris (1698) + Saint-Charles de la Doctrine Chrétienne (1762 to Year 2 (1793)): Minutes of the Provincial Chapter of the Priests of the Christian Doctrine of the Province of Paris, held at their house in St. Charles; Liquidation of national assets: a house belonging to the former Priests of the Christian Doctrine + St. Nicolas du Chardonnet 1690 + Seminary of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet + (Lazarist) + 1868 plan for the detailed construction of the rectory. + Letter from the parish priest of St. Nicolas des Champs (1791), regarding the school. + Sainte Marguerite Parish. Baptismal record excerpt, 1843 + Letter from the pastor of St. Médard, 1769. + St. Médard (1863 to 1819) Petition to the Duchess of Berry on behalf of the assistant pastor of the Parish of Saint Médard + Saint Médard Mutual Aid Society + Letters from the parish priest of Saint Médard, 1792 to Year 10 (to the Soup Kitchen Committee) + Saint Louis du Louvre (annuity from a house in St. Maur (94)) + Saint Louis Seminary. Receipt from the Abbé de Fleury, 1743. + P.S. from the parish priest of St. Leu and St. Gilles, 1708 + St. Joseph, Women’s Charity. Letter signed “Sister of Saint Mary of the Angels,” nun, author. + Letters from “Sister Ad De Laye, Cistercian Nun, to the Feuillantine Nuns on Rue du Faubourg St. Jacques. (3 letters / 1780–1783, regarding her land in Saint-Domingue) + Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (2 letters / 1752). Epigram on the parish priests of St. Étienne du Mont + St. Jacques de la Boucherie (lost; 3 items, 1765–1790). Observations on the draft of new regulations for the St. Jacques de la Boucherie parish council. Letter from the parish priest of St. Jacques de la Boucherie; copies from 1790 of several documents relating to the death of Mr. Bernard, parish priest of St. Jacques de la Boucherie, to serve as a reference + Saint-Eustache Church (9 documents / 1687–1830): P.S. from the parish priest. Receipts, alms, and contributions for the poor; excerpts from baptismal records (Hozier’s seal). Invitation to the Feast of the Parish of Saint-Eustache; reference material available for consultation + Parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (2 documents / 1779, Year 2): Deed of transfer of non-life annuity titles for the Schools of Charity. Funeral procession of the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Parish. + Saint-Gervais Church (6 items / 1773 to 1829). Receipts from the parish priest of Saint-Gervais. Discharge from the parish priest of St. Gervais + Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. (8 documents / 1688–1853) Documents drawn up by the priests and religious of the novitiate of the Reformed Jacobins established in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district on Rue Saint-Dominique. Transferred to the St. Dominique Convent in 1688. Receipts from the monks and cellarer of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Power of attorney. Extract from the registry of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Appraisal of a farm in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine) belonging to the monastic estate of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1791 + Printed notice from the parish priest of Saint-Sulpice, 1780. Permission to eat eggs during Lent in exchange for alms for the destitute. + Letter from the Superior of Sainte-Avoye, of the Order of the Ursulines, 1765 + Community of the Theatine Clerics Regular (2/1790). Two certificates for the liquidation of annuities, which became National Ecclesiastical Property. + LS LAQUESNOY, Prior of the Temple (Monastery), 1790: Scandal involving a brother resistant to the Revolution who refused to leave. + Letter from Sister Marie de Sainte Rose, Superior of the Perpetual Adoration at the Temple Convent. 1829 + “Church of the National Vow” at the Sacred Heart (documents from 1878). Circular letter requesting donations to complete the construction of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 1898, and a sheet bearing a curious photograph of the Basilica under construction. Request for