French History
JOURNET, Henri.
‘Cahier correct à Journet Henri. Classe de quatrième. Collège d’Ambert.’ Ambert, 1851–1854.
Manuscript on paper, in French, 4to (c. 210 x 165 mm), pp. [148]; neatly written in brown ink in a single hand, c. 23 lines per page, with 7 hand-drawn coloured maps (of which 6 full-page, 2 tipped-in), 4 pages of genealogical diagrams, title-page illustrated in colour, colour illustration around subheading ‘Géographie de l’empire Romain’, final page concludes ‘Fin du premier cahier’; small smudges and stains, occasional very light foxing, but a very good copy; in blue cloth-backed boards with marbled sides, thick paper overjacket with faint pencil marks and doodles; corners a little bumped, front joint partially split, jacket somewhat duststained and worn at corners; contemporary ink inscription ‘Journet’ to title-page.
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‘Cahier correct à Journet Henri. Classe de quatrième. Collège d’Ambert.’
A charmingly decorated exercise-book belonging to Henri Journet, a secondary-school (collège) pupil from Ambert in the Puy-de-Dôme, France, in the mid-nineteenth century, with vibrantly coloured hand-drawn maps of Roman Gaul and the Frankish Empire.
Filled with Journet’s tidy notes, the volume opens with various translated extracts from Sallust and Virgil; most of the text, however, covers the history of France from the early days of the Roman Empire, through the Merovingians, to the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and eventually the end of the dynasty in 987. The seven carefully drawn maps, each signed ‘par Journet Henri’, show: Neustria and Austrasia under Chlothar II (a smaller half-page map); the whole of Merovingian France; Gaul in 481 before the accession of Clovis, and then Frankish Gaul at the end of his reign (both brightly coloured to highlight the expansion of Frankish territory); Charlemagne’s empire at its greatest extent; its partition under the treaty of Verdun in 843; and the final partition of 888.