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Correspondence and memoirs of a traveler in the East. Paris, Olivier Fulgence, 1840, 2 vol. 8°, folding map, VIII-425 and 498 p., full contemporary purple calf, decorated spine, boards framed with a gilt fillet with gilt design in the corners, in the center the gilt inscription "Collège de Brugelette" in a gilt laurel wreath, on the back cover of the 1st vol. price book label of the college of Brugelette dated 1840 (Brugelette is a village and commune of the province of Hainaut, in the Walloon Region of Belgium). From 1835 to 1854, French Jesuits, exiled from France by the Revolution and then from Spain by the Carlist wars, opened a Jesuit college in Brugelette in order to respond to the demand for free choice of education from families in the North of France: it was dedicated to the education of young French people, while welcoming a contingent of Belgian pupils. Made less necessary by the relaxation of education (law of 1850) and the end of the ban on Jesuit teaching in France, the college closed in 1854. Nice copy (some minor tears and wear, spine slightly lightened). Eugène Boré (1809-1878) was a French archaeologist and missionary. In 1837, the Académie des inscriptions entrusted him with an archaeological mission in Persia. He conducted studies of the country's monuments, made excavations and, in 1840, received the ambassador Edouard de Sercey in Isfahan. He also opened a Catholic school in Tabriz and established charitable works. He returned to France via Mesopotamia.
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