Degree requirements: Documents relating to Paris student P.-C. Debonnaire.

[University Education] / [Paris]. [Group of 7 documents relating to student Pierre Charles Debonnaire]. Paris: written and signed by various professors, 1729-30. [Various sizes, the largest 24.0 x 18.5 cm], [7] ff. manuscript and letterpress documents. Minor wrinkling and toning, generally neatly written and legible.
 
 
Group of 7 manuscript and letterpress documents relating to the 1726-30 education at the University of Paris of the young nobleman Pierre Charles Debonnaire (1709-88). These slips were written variously in Latin or French and signed by various professors of theology philosophy, French law, etc., certifying Debonnaire’s enrollment, participation, and completion in their courses. 
 
The slips apparently were collected by Debonnaire as a testament to his fulfillment of his degree requirements, and some include remarks about his attentiveness, e.g., “meas lectiones philosophicas assidue, attente et modeste scriptis et auribus excepisse.” One of the slips is a letterpress form, suggesting that professors in 18th-century Paris found themselves completing much paperwork of this sort. Today, however, such material from the workings of the university has become quite rare.
 
At his death in 1788, Debonnaire was described as “Chevalier, Seigneur de Gif, Conseiller du Roi en ses Conseils, Procureur au Grand-Conseil, Doyen des Administrateurs de l’Hôpital Général” (Trudon des Ormes, pp. 269-70). He was buried at the L’Église des Minimes de la Place Royale.
 
 
*A. Trudon des Ormes, “L’État civil des citoyens nobles de Paris en 1789,” Mémoires de la Société de l’Histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France, vol. 26 (1898), pp. 255-367.