SECOND EMPIRE (1852-1870) Notebook of boar and fallow deer hunting appointments, titled "brouillon de chasse à ..." on the first cover. Between Sept. 24, 1868 and March 11, 1869. Relating : - dates and places of rendezvous and attacks (Le Puits d'Orléans [in Saint Léger aux bois, Oise] - Hameau de La Brévière near Pierrefonds - La Belle Ourde - Carrefour du faune [forest of Compiègne] - La maison de Prach...). - animals surveyed (wild boar, ragot, company, laie ragotte; herd of fallow deer...), their routes and any catches. Names of some of the participants or personalities who attended: - His Majesty the Empress, the Prince Imperial, Prince E. de Caraman Chimay. - the Ducs d'Albe, de Lesparre ; - les Comtes de la Salle, de Janay, de l'Aigle, de Saint-Priest, Petit ; Comtesse Agnado ; Vicomte A[rthur] de Chezelles ; - Mme ou M. de Poul; MM. de Vogué et d'Hinnisdâl, de Pierre, de Lagrenée, de Beaulaincourt, Bachon, de Ligniville, de Villeplaine, E. de Ledochowski, de Saint Maurice, de Gramont, de l'Estrange, F. Foy; several officers; Melles A. Trubert (on horseback), de Gramont... Thirteen leaves in ink or pencil. Brown-black hardback with floral motifs. 22 x 17.5 cm. Wear, rubbing and torn parts to binding. Supposed provenance : Baron de Courcel's collection in Vigneux-sur-Seine. Alphonse Chodron de Courcel (1835-1919) became Baron de Courcel (from Port-Courcel on the Seine to Vigneux in Essonne) by letters patent dated March 6, 1867.