Annales Franc-Comtoises
signed
1869
by CIRCOURT, Count Adolphe de
1869. CIRCOURT, Count Adolphe de. Annales Franc-Comtoises. Besancon, 1869. A historical periodical on Franche-Comtois, a region among the Jura mountains in Eastern France. Two issues (September and October 1869), containing "Memoires du Jules Chiflet, Abbe de Balerne" by Count Adolphe de Circourt, both inscribed by de Circourt. A prominent statesman and literary figure in Paris, de Circourt was Ambassador to Berlin, friendly with William IV and with the deposed French Royal Family. He and his wife, a member of the noble Tolstoi family, kept a famous Paris (truncated)