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The watermarks of the papers used by Marc-Antoine Charpentier To celebrate 2004, which is the Tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's
death, I am publishing my sketches of the watermarks in the papers he used, and
a more detailed listing of the watermarks, notebook after notebook and folio
after folio, than was possible in my Vers une Chronologie. A suggestion:: whenever a notebook proves to have been made of several papers, it is prudent to attempt to re-create the order of the sheets of paper within the folded cahier, in the manner of this sketch, where pages 67/68 and 86/87 are the same sheet of paper: (For more on this subject, see pp. 23-29 of Vers une Chronologie.) This presentation of the watermarks is subdivided into three parts: the watermarks in the so-called "cahiers françois," the watermarks in the "cahiers romains," and my sketches of these watermarks:
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