About the Images on Our Site

The overall design of this Web site was inspired by images from the University of Virginia's collection of rare French books, called the Douglas Huntly Gordon Collection. Many thanks to those who granted the Department permission to use images and also to the faculty and students of the French Department who contributed their own personal photographs for use on this site. We would also like to express our gratitude to Karen James (Ph.D. French, 1992), Director of the digital library project, "The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth Century French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection", for all her work in converting many of these images to electronic format.

All images from the Douglas H. Gordon Collection are copyrighted © UVa Board of Visitors. Please visit the following Web sites for more information on this collection:

   Douglas H. Gordon Collection of French Books

   Thanks to the generous support of The Florence Gould Foundation, The University of Virginia Library and the University of Virginia French Department have launched an ambitious collaborative project that will make rare books from the French Renaissance era accessible to the public via the Internet. Visit the following link for more information about the grant project: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/about/whatsnew.html

   The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth Century French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection (sample materials for the web-based project)

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Le Compte, from Le Diable à Paris: Paris et les Parisiens.
Sand, George et al (Nodier, Balzac, Nerval, Gautier, Musset, etc.)
Gordon 1845.D53t 1&2