Collection of papers and miscellaneous documents consisting of personal files of/on French revolutionaries and utopians and subject files. Personal files: François-Noël (Gracchus) Babeuf: a letter by Babeuf 1791; a circular letter by Babeuf in which he argues the case of popular sovereignty (unpublished manuscript) 1794; manuscript of a draft of his appeal against the sentence of the court of Montdidier 1793; handwritten reports of the oral pleadings by Charles J.-B. Ballyer during the trial of members of the conspiracy of Babeuf [1797] and some printed material including a published letter from prison by Babeuf and others to a Minister 1796, n.d.; Armand Barbès: a letter to the president of the Assemblée Nationale 1848; a letter to [Jacques] Brives 1850 and two letters to Gellion-Danglard 1863, 1866; Louis Blanc: text of a poem by a worker dedicated to Louis Blanc 1849; a letter to Armand Barbès 1849 and a letter to Sanguet and Collard n.d.; manuscript of a part of H̀istoire de la Révolution'; a photocopy of the notes for his discourse on the treaty with Prussia [1871] and some printed material including a published correspondence from 1862 with Victor Hugo 1862, 1867, 1878, n.d.; Prosper-Victor Considérant: three letters by Considérant 1836, 1842, n.d., a manuscript and notes; Louis A. Garnier-Pagès: circular letters and letters by Garnier-Pagès including letters to A. Clerets 1831-1839, 1848; Pierre J. Proudhon: letters to Joseph Droz, Auguste Blanqui and others 1838-1858 and a copy of the pamphlet B̀anque du Peuple' [1849]; Other persons: some letters and other documents by Auguste Blanqui 1846, Michel Chevalier n.d., Abb ̌Constant n.d., Charles Fourier 1832, 1837, Etienne J.L. Garnier-Pagès 1862-1869, E. Gouffé 1848, Auguste and F.C. Guépin 1858, 1869-1871, n.d., Aloysius Hubert 1849, 1852, n.d., H. Ledru-Rollin 1848-1852, Philippe Rey 1848, Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon 1814, and others; some clippings and other printed material on François V. Raspail 1848, 1869, 1922, n.d. and Eugène Süe [1848, 1907]; Subject files: Uprising in Lyons in 1831: documents from the public prosecutor of Lyons and his colleague in Riom on the trial of a number of leaders of the uprising 1831-1832; Revolution of 1848 and subsequent elections: some correspondence including letters to Bernard Desarnaud, president of a section of the 6th electoral district of the Département de la Seine, and a large collection of leaflets, copies of periodicals, circulars, texts of songs, bulletins, ballots and pamphlets, both of the authorities as well as of organizations and individual candidates for elections, for the most part in Paris 1848-1852.
