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REGIONS - BURGUNDY - MANUSCRIPT - COLLEGE OF THE JESUITS "Song on the compliment that the Jesuits made by their pupil to the steward of Dijon at his arrival in which he praises her and repeats often the beauty of her face contour". Song made by the Jesuit College of Dijon, ca 1750 Curious and improbable little handwritten piece where the verses are declined in 8 stanzas that one hesitates to qualify as serious The Jesuits will indeed be expelled from France in 1763 One sheet, in-12 square. It is joined : COTE-D'OR. Portrait of M. Caumartin, Deputy of the Department of the Côte-d'Or, elected in 1817; litho of the time; in medallion, 17 x 26 cm. Provenance : Saint-Hélion fund, then Madame H.'s library.