MENUS Approximately 240 menus, 1865-1910 and n.d.; mostly in-12 format. These menus are printed, engraved or handwritten, sometimes decorated in color, some by hand, with vignettes, mottos, coats of arms, crowned numerals... Some bear the guest's name: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Childe, Comte or Mlle de Sartiges, Comte de Caraman, Marquis de Contades, Marquis de Ségur... Some are annotated with the names of other guests. Many bear witness to meals given by the Lee Childes, or to those to which they were invited, at the British, Austrian and Russian embassies, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Cercle de l'Union, at the Pavillon Ledoyen, or at the homes of the Barante family, the Princesse de Broglie in Chaumont, the Duchesse de Luynes, the Pastré family, the Rothschilds, the Saint-Seines, etc., or in hotels... A few postcards are enclosed. Provenance: Château du Perthuis. Note: After Blanche de Triqueti's death in 1886, Edward Lee Childe remarried Marie Elisabeth de Sartiges, daughter of Count and Ambassador Eugène de Sartiges. The Childe family lived a social life, frequenting the European aristocracy, but curiously remained attached to Château du Perthuis and to the memory of the Triqueti family. They kept the estate as Blanche had laid it out in 1883, and after Marie's death in 1944, the château remained the property of the family, who cultivated its memory.