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Archive buys 300 year old notebook

City Archive Halle Saale (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) bought a 300 year old notebook, enabled by donations. It's a student's memorandum of his time in Halle in 1710. More than 100 entries of fellow students, teachers etc, including the publishing dynasty Gebauer, were collected by theology student Friedrich Wilhelm Ehr, who rented a chamber at the Gebauers. Archive members hope for more insights in economical and social history of Halle during the 18th century.

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Facebook Revisited

Last year I deleted my FB account, just before the timeline was launched. I don't regret it. I don't miss it. I don't use Twitter actively - just for my feed and stuff. But now, reading about this, I am intrigued to use it for the Leyland Blog as Emmeline's Diary.
The success to historical FB sites is new to me, but interesting. Even the many learning apps are fascinating and I am thinking of signing up for Emy...

Facebook increasingly includes learning tools among its many, many applications, although you'll need an account to explore them. Flashcards lets you create your own questions, vocabulary lists, and answers and maintain your digital cards in sets. The Courses application is one of several that enables students (or students and educators) to post schedules and exchange notes and comments.*

Does it really work to set a birthdate in mid 18th century?

UPDATE: whoosh! the 100th Research Post!!!!! Yeah...

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National Trust Movie Map

I just read this awesome post by Nicola and immediately headed over to the homepage to check out the map myself. Its great. I love it. Try for yourself!!!
I was thrilled to see a post for Lyme Park as well, the Pemberley of the 1995 Pride & Prejudice Series. I've visited the place myself in 2009 (oh gosh! so long ago!!!!) and loved it at first sight.

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By Accident: Corisande de Gramont - Tankerville

When exploring the graveyard at a  nearby village, that is supposed to be Leyland's old cemetery, I found a gravestone for a woman named Corisande. Unfortunately I couldn't find any more informations on her online.
Though I hope to find out more about her, as she belongs to the family, the famous historian Schultze-Gallera comes from.


But I stumbled upon another Corisande: Corisande Armandine Léonie Sophie de Gramont, daughter of Antoine Louis Marie de Gramont, 8th duc de Gramont (later the family intermarried with the French branch of the Rothschild dynasty).

As it is often the case, coming across someone by accident like this, the person reveals a most interesting background. Her family is very famous. Her mother was Aglae de Polignac* (+1803, left), daughter of Yolande Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess de Polignac and BFF of Marie Antoinette. (Well, she had brothers, of course, but I don't want to enlarge the post this much...)

At the Château de Versailles, on 11 July 11 1780, at the age of twelve, Aglaé married the Duc de Gramont et Guiche. She then became the Duchess of Guiche and was nicknamed 'Guichette' by her family.

Aglae's daughter Corisande (right) married Charles Augustus, 5th Earl of Tankerville on 28 July 1806 at Devonshire House, London. They had two children: Corisande Emma (+1865) and Charles (1810-99), the future 6th Earl of Tankerville.

Corisande Emma married the 3rd Earl of Malmesbury. But they had no issue. Her brother Charles married Lady Olivia Montague and one of his children (5) was another Corisande, who died in 1941.

The men in the Tankerville and Gramont families were mostly politicians and there's not so much on their wifes and daughters I could find.

*Aglae de Polignac, aka Madame de Gramont, made ​​a brief appearance in the novel 'Farewell, my Queen' by Chantal Thomas published in 2002.

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