Title: De la découverte d'un prétendu cimetière mérovingien à la Chapelle-Saint-Éloi (Eure) par M. Charles Lenormant Rapports Faits à la Société libre d’Agriculture, Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du département de l’Eure […]
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Full title:</b> De la découverte d'un prétendu cimetière mérovingien à la Chapelle-Saint-Éloi (Eure) par M. Charles Lenormant Rapports Faits à la Société libre d’Agriculture, Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du département de l’Eure, et publiés par son ordre. Deuxième édition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. 75, ff. iii (plates, some folded). Original printed wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second edition of a rebuttal by local antiquaries of a curious hoax perpetrated by the distinguished archaeologist Charles Lenormant and his 17-year-old son and disciple Francis, documenting a ‘find’ of building stones and inscribed tiles, supposedly a Merovingian cemetery in Chapelle-Saint-Éloi (see Bib# 4102958/Fr# 1321 in this collection). Adds to the original Rapport (see also Bib# 4102959/Fr# 1322) a second one of 2 March 1856, "un dernier mot sur la découverte," and appendices reprinting press reports, including one translated from the Gentleman's magazine.
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