Madagascar / Indian Ocean

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Complete issue of L'Eclipse, dated Jul 26, 1868. It shows a cartoon of Fatouma-Djombe, queen of Mohely, which is one of the four islands in the Comoro Archipelago. eh ah M

Price: $90.00

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This is an 8 card collection of French chromos, by different manufactures but in the same format, on Paul and Virginia. Based on a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre that was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France, which the author had visited. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is hailed as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France. SOLD

Price: $200.00

FA 019

Complete set of 6 cards from different French confectioners on the war in Madagascar, done over 100 years ago. All with advertising on back. MBB ah eh kn

Price: $300.00

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A collection of 13 early twentieth century trade cards on the war in Madagascar by a number of different french food and drink producers. B eh ah kn

Price: $390.00