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Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de (1779-1865)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1663-1670

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de (1779-1865)

Date(s): 1800-1801

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 volumes

Name of creator(s): Tonnerre | Aimé Marie Gaspard | de Clermont- | 1779-1865 | French statesman

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, as he became in 1815, served under Napoleon after attending courses at the Polytechnique. He was head of the Ministère de la Marine from 1821 to 1824, and then of the Ministère de la Guerre until 1828. He retired from public life in 1830, after Louis Philippe had become King of France.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes of lectures on chemistry taken by Aimé Marie Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre when a student, plus three short pieces on chemistry, 1800-1801.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1934.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Chemistry

Personal names
Tonnerre | Aimé Marie Gaspard | de Clermont- | 1779-1865 | French statesman

Corporate names

Places