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VERNOUILLET, Augustin “Maurice” Marchant de (1829-1898). Pair of Manuscript Lecture Notes. Saint-Denis, La Réunion, 1842-1845. Histoire Ancienne [and] Histoire du Moyen Age. [Ancient History; Middle Ages.] Manuscript history of the world from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, being lecture notes written by Maurice de Vernouillet, at the time a pupil of history professor Marc Petit de Baroncourt at the Collège de Bourbon, on the island of Réunion, east of Madagascar. Text is in French. 8vos. 2 volumes. 274; 294 pages, plus title pages to each volume. Bound uniformly in black calf over blue marbles boards, gilt title and tooling to spines. Volumes vary slightly in size, the first measuring approximately 8 x 6 ½” the second 7 ½ x 5 ½”. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in very good condition, a content-rich work in a fine hand. The student and writer is presumably Augustin “Maurice” Marchant de Vernouillet, born 18 April 1829 in Paris, who would later become a Resident Secretary in Madrid, holding the title of “Ministre plénipotentiaire de 1° classe” [a diplomat of ambassador usually with full power over a foreign land]. De Vernouillet was a man of distinction. He was an Officier d’Académie [an honorary title created in 1808 and granted to members of the most eminent universities in France], Officier de la Légion d’Honneur [Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits], He held the rank of Chevalier [Knight] of various chivalric orders. Full description available upon request.