Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, manuscript books, newspaper clippings, and printed material pertaining to the French dramatist Eugène Marin Labiche (1815-1888) and Alphonse Leveaux (1810-1893). A manuscript book titled Ville de Compiègne, Sociètè Saint-Francois-Xavier, Confèrences faites par Alphonse Leveaux, 1859-1878 includes Leveaux’s notes about meetings of the St. Francis Xavier Society, which met in Compiègne on the third Sunday of the month. Founded in 1853, the society...