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Milliére, Jacques Louis Chaumont de La


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 530

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Milliére, Jacques Louis Chaumont de La

Date(s): 1790

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 items

Name of creator(s): Millière | Jacques Louis | Chaumond de La | fl 1790 | French politician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A Corps of Engineers of Ponts et Chauseés was set up in France in 1716. A decree issued by the Royal Council in 1747 led to the setting up of the École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris to provide a training programme for state engineers.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the part of Jacques Louis Chaumont de La Millière in the creation of legislation in the Assembleé Nationale Constituante relating to the Ponts et Chauseés (or bridges and highways) of France, 1790, including:
1. Letter from Millière to [Pierre Louis] Roederer introducing a memorandum entitled 'Observations pour servir de réponse à un mémoire sur les travaux publics du Languedoc...une partie d'administration aussi importante', 30 Oct 1790. The mémoire referred to appears to be that entitled 'Extrait d'Observations faites il y a quelques mois sur un mémoir de l'Ingénieur en chef de la cydevant province de Bretagne par lequel il proposait de conserver à Rennes l'École particulière des Ponts et Chaussées...les observations...pourront servir de réponse à un mémoire d'un directeur des Travaux Publics du Languedoc'.
2. Letter from Millière to [Pierre Louis] Roederer, 20 Oct 1790, enclosing the 'dernières observations...sur la nouvelle rédaction du decret proposé par M. [Charles François] Le Brun [Duc de Plaisance] relativement aux Ponts et Chausées', with brief note in Millière's hand on the principles of the organisation of the Ponts et Chausées, and an item headed 'Observations sur plusiers articles du dernier projet du decret concernant les Ponts et Chausées proposés par le Comité des Finances'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Approximately 8¾" x 7".

Finding aids:

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Enclosed in a Goldsmiths' Library volume containing Chaumont de la Millière's Mémoire sur le département des ponts et chaussées, (1790), containing printed pamphlets by Millière and others (G.L. Cat. 14466, 14470, 14467, 14957, 14469, 14463).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bridges | Transport infrastructure
Civil engineering | Construction engineering
Roads | Transport infrastructure

Personal names
Brun | Charles François | Le | 1739-1824 | Duc de Plaisance | French statesman x Le Brun | Charles François x Plaisance | Duc de
Millière | Jacques Louis | Chaumond de La | fl 1790 | French politician x Chaumond de la Millière | Jacques Louis
Roederer | Pierre-Louis | 1754-1835 | French politician

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe