Manila folder labelled 'Giquel Destouches'

 
Containers:
Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)
Component identifier:
File 17
Content Summary:
This file contains correspondence relating to the life of Pierre-Guillaume Gicquel Destouches (1770–1824) who took part in the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in search of Lapérouse (1791–1793) and in the first part of the Baudin expedition. The file contains correspondence with the Service Historique de la Marine (including a copy of his État de Service, CC7 Alpha 1011), a letter from a descendant Jean Gicquel Des Touches dated 12 September 2000, two newspaper clippings on Ghislaine and Jean Gicquel Des Touches dated 28 and 20 August 2000, two letters from Yves Roth, Alençon (a retired teacher who assisted Duyker with his biographical research on Labillardière) dated 19 and 30 August 2000, a photocopy of a previously unknown miniature of Destouches used by Edward Duyker and his mother Maryse Duyker in their published translation of d'Entrecasteaux's journal (MUP/Miegunyah, 1995). It also contains Edward Duyker's English draft entry on Gicquel Destouches for the Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne (no. 54, Octobre 2000, pp. 1745–48)
Immediate source of acquisition:
This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
Subjects:
Exploration
History

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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