Michael La Vean is an entrepreneur and medical device patent holder who studied Business Administration at George Mason University. He spent seven years in Rennes, France, and collects books and documents, especially those relevant to politics and the history of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century France.

The La Vean Collection contains 268 documents and books from the period between 1751 and 1851. It includes copies of legislation by the French constitutional monarchy and the evolving Republic; administrative correspondence and official records from Morbihan; a few London newspapers mentioning France; ten books, notably a 1797 edition of Three Memorials on French Affairs by Sir Edmund Burke; and other materials.
The majority of the documents come from the years between the creation of the French National Assembly in 1789 and the beginning of the Empire in 1805.

Total volume of the collection is 7 containers, 2 cubic feet or 3 linear feet.

Detail from letter "du Commissaire près l'admn. du Département du Morbihan
à celui près le canton de Lominé," 1796. Michael La Vean Collection

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