Le nécessaire des dames et des messieurs, ou Dépositaire fidèle & discret : utile aux gens d'affaires, négocians, voyageurs, militaires, & à tous les états : composé d'un papier nouveau, sur lequel on peut, à l'aide d'un stylet de minéral sans fin, adapté au livre, écrire aussi distinctement qu'avec la plume, ses pertes & gains, les visites à rendre, les agenda de la semaine, les rendez-vous, pensées, bons mots, pièces fugitives, comme epigrammes, madrigaux, traits des conversation, saillies, adresses, &c. : il y en a avec de la peau d'âne pour les personnes qui en desireront, on écrit aussi distinctement avec le même stylet, & on peut la laver plusieurs fois pour y substituer d'autre écriture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janet, Pierre-Étienne, 1746-1830, bookseller.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, French--Specimens--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, French.

Genre:

Notebooks.

Physical Description:

48, [12] pages ; 11 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Nécessaire des dames et des messieurs

Dépositaire fidèle & discret

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Janet, successeur de St. Jubert, doreur, rue s. Jacques, la porte cochere vis-à-vis les Maturins, [1793]

Contents:

Usage du secrétaire

[Blank pages for daily notes]

[Blank pages for monthly notes of daily gains and losses]

[Blank pages for recapitulations of the year's gains and losses]

[Bookseller's advertisement]

[Blank pages for notes]

[Calendar for 1794].

Notes:

Imprint date from inclusion of calendar for 1794.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁸ [C]⁸ [D]⁶ (leaf [A]1 blank).

Title, text, and blank space for notes all within double-ruled borders.

Of the pages for notes, pages 6-13 is each headed by a day of the week (pages 6-7 each for Dimanche), pages 14-37 is each headed by a month of the year (2 pages per month) and divided into two columns (numbered 1-15 on the first page and 16-30 on the second) headed "Perte" and "Gain", respectively; pages 38-39 is each headed "Recapitulation" and divided into three columns, the first listing the months of the year and ending with "TOTAL" and the other two blank (the blank columns on the first page are headed "Perte" and those on the second "Gain". Pages 41-48 have blank space for notes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center RBC 2026 47 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Nina Musinsky. An additional 16 unnumbered contemporary blank pages (12 extant) have been bound in before the calendar. Contemporary manuscript notes and scribbles in pencil: "In this copy, a woman jotted shopping notes and accounts, noted the height of her 3-year-old, projecting his height should he live to adulthood, and the weights of her husband and other children (in June 1793); she recorded the measurements required of a large tablecloth to calculate how much cloth she would need, the dates of her children's births, and how many people can be seated at la grande table (16, or 17 'un peu genée')."--Bookseller's description. Binding: full contemporary red morocco[?]; boards triple-ruled in gold with a gold fleuron at each corner and a gold revolutionary emblem (Roman fasces surmounted by Phrygian cap and surrounded by a laurel wreath) at center; gold-tooled cover edges; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("LES VRAIS AMANS"); spine tooled in gold with emblems of love; three-part fore-edge sleeve for a stylus (now wanting); blue endpapers; blue silk marker; all edges gilt. Bookseller's description removed, 2026.

OCLC:

1581575335

Bound With:

Kislak Center RBC 2026 47 bound with: Les vrais amans du la constance recompensée.