ALSACE. KERN family archives, over 110 documents, 18th-early 20th centuries; in German and French. Collection concerning the Kern family, which provided Alsace with magistrates, jurists, administrators, politicians and musicians, notably Philippe-Henri Kern (1712-1784); jurist Charles-Henri Kern (1759-1847); Charles-Auguste Kern, administrator and musician (1799-1872); his son Charles, imperial prosecutor (1831-1911)... Documents concerning Philippe-Henri's career as intimate advisor and archivist to the princes of Hanau-Lichtenberg: appointments, deeds, attestations, certificates, summonses, biographical notes, genealogical notes, etc. Documents, mainly from Strasbourg, concerning Charles-Henri, Charles-Auguste and Charles. Diplomas: Légion du Bas-Rhin, Légion d'honneur, Académie de Législation, Société biblique de Strasbourg. Appointments (Comité des Hospices), certificates (including amnesty in 1802), birth certificates, receipts, printed matter, service records, letters, etc. Noteworthy are a P.S. by Maximilian von Montgelas (1816), a P.S. by Wilhelm I (Babelsberg 1879) and a P.S. by Wilhelm II (Berlin 1911). Manuscript of an account of travels by Auguste and Charles Kern in Germany and Austria in 1821: Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar, Halle Dessau, Potsdam, Berlin, Leipzig, Meissen, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Laxembourg, Presbourg, Linz, Salzburg, Munich, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Louisbourg (35 p. in-fol.). "Tagebuch" or autobiographical memoir by Charles Kern about his youth, his career as a magistrate, the war of 1870 and his stay in Switzerland from October 1870 to April 1871 (50p. in-4). 4 family trees, including one of the Dalberg family with coat of arms. Miscellaneous documents: printed matter, newspapers, map of Strasbourg...