ANCIENT REGIME. About 60 letters or pieces, most of them L.A.S. or P.S., from the XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. Letters and pieces by Barjac, duc de Beauvillier, mal de Broglie, Des Entelles, Marguerite d'Orléans, the bishop of Saint-Paul, de Thou, duchess of Ventadour, etc. Establishment of a charity office in Lignerolles (1720); private or commercial correspondence (several to Poulletier de Périgny); receipts for taxes and impositions; farm accounts; will; charters and deeds on parchment, etc. A ms notebook of rhetoric by L. Rochefort Américain (Niort, 1790, vellum binding); a file from the d'Hozier cabinet on the d'Allonville family; and 7 printed documents, including 2 leaflets, are attached.