Show SPLENDID SPLENDID GIFT TO LIBRARY I Famous amous Rothschild Colle Collection of L Let I tors and nd Autographs Now Property Prop Prop- Property erty erly of the French Nation The F French ench national library has hns Just been been enriched by a great grent gift on the tho part palt of Edmond de Rothschild who has handed over to It the tho Incomparable incomparable parable collection of historic autographs autographs auto auto- graphs collected by hy his mother Mme Mine James fumes de Rothschild It la it known all over the world as the m most st complete and valuable colle col collection le lection of ot l letters Inters and autographs of ot II- II a j The Thee e 1 tion Includes letters from ost of the former fonner kings and and- queens c of ot of Fr Franca Including Philippe le Ie Bel Francois I Henry IV Marguerite de Valois Catherine and Marie de Medici Me- Me dici and Marie Made Antoinette Th There re are also letters from eminent public men like Sully and Colbert leading lending soldiers soldiers- such as Gaston deFoix de Foix Conde Turenne and Marshal Saxe to soy say nothing of artists artists- poets and writers like Villon Corn Corneille ellie Racine Racine Ra Ra- cine and Mme de 0 |