3 - [FIRST EMPIRE – COVER FEATURING COATS OF ARMS] “Documents on…
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[FIRST EMPIRE – COVER FEATURING COATS OF ARMS] “Documents on the Negotiation of the Concordat and on France’s Other Relations with the Holy See in 1800 and 1801” by Boulay de la Meurthe, Paris,Plon, 1893, volume 3 only, 775 pages, with a facsimile at the end, FEATURING THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE PRINCES AND COUNTS OF ANTIOCH on the lower part of the spine, half-chagrin binding in faded colours, spine with five raised bands.A very ancient family dating back to the Crusades; upon the extinction of the line of the Counts of Tripoli, who held the title, the title of Prince of Antioch passed to the Kings of Cyprus, descended from a junior branch of the Poitiers-Antioch family.One of the descendants settled in the mid-19th century in Niernier, Savoy, on the French shore of Lake Geneva, in an austere building, the remains of which date back to the Middle Ages. A substantial library was assembled, the bindings of which all bore the coat of arms of the family of Antioch. [ANTI-COMMUNISM] “Défendre la vérité” (Defending the Truth), a post-war anti-communist journal, in-16 format, paperback, a set of 12 issues from the 1950s; the principal editor of this journal was René Pleven. [SECOND WORLD WAR – ARDENNES] “The Battle of the Ardennes 1944–1945” by Michel Hérubel, Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988, in-4, publisher’s hardback, extensively illustrated.

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3 - [FIRST EMPIRE – COVER FEATURING COATS OF ARMS] “Documents on… See original version (French)

3 - [FIRST EMPIRE – COVER FEATURING COATS OF ARMS] “Documents on…
See original version (French)