Among other documents, it contains the Imperial Ottoman firman, or decree, which established the rule of Muhammad Ali and his family, and a certificate for the Order of the Iron Crown, from the short-lived South American Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia.
Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firman Prefontaine and Matilda Desautel, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Her overseas work also included Monte Carlo where she had a show at the Casino and in Paris where she sang with Bert Firman.
In 1929 Firman was given a six-month contract to be a guest conductor at N.B.C., becoming the first British bandleader to broadcast in America.
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Firman then formed a band in London, which he took to Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Paris.
Chrysavgi and the other villages ceased to be manors in 1836 after a firman from Sultan Mahmud II.
Meanwhile, the British once again sought the Nawab of the Carnatic demanding that he hand over the village of Tiruvottiyur under his occupation to the British as per the Imperial firman issued by the Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar.
Munk accompanied Montefiore and Crémieux to Egypt in connection with the Damascus affair; and it was due to his knowledge of Arabic (although some claim that the credit is due L. Loewe) that the word "justice" was substituted for "mercy" in the firman of Mohammed Ali which exculpated the accused from the charge of ritual murder.