Notes discussing the creation of the motto of Louis XIV, ‘nec pluribus impar’ or ‘not unequal to many’, and moments from the lives and deaths of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, and Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother.

The collection features a variety of poems, letters, mottos, and inscriptions from graves. These are taken from authors including: Gunnar Schevenius, Olof Bergklint, Johan Simmingsköld, Johan Henric Kellgren, Voltaire, and Jöns Bernard Santesson. The poems largely date to the 1770s.

A series of thoughts and anecdotes in the hand of Voltaire describing court events and gossip.