Among the largest collections of 18th- and 19th-century linguistic corpora, as I've recently learned, is the library amassed by none other than Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), a nephew of Napoleon I.

Richard Challoner (1691-1781)
While the history of Irish Catholicism in the popular imagination is usually counted among the most distinctly "Irish" of cultural features, evidence from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century devotional material suggests otherwise. This should not be a surprise, since the the history of Catholicism cannot be told from a purely national standpoint--it demands an international perspective . . .