Manila folder labelled 'Saint-Aignan'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 28

Content Summary:

Alexandre François de La Fresnay de Saint-Aignan (c.1768–1847) took part in d'Entrecasteaux's expedition in search of Lapérouse, 1791–1793. The folder contains letters from Yves Roth, Alençon, dated 5 and 6 June 2000, including an annotated extract (pp. 73–74) from an article on 'Plaques de cheminées de l'Orne' dealing with the 'armes de La Fresnaye de Saint-Aignan et de Broc', in the Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique de l'Orne, 1957; copies of documents relating to the parents of Alexandre François La Fresnaye de Saint-Aignan during the Revolution (Archives Départementales de l'Orne (Alençon) 10,325, C10623 [transcription in the hand of Yves Roth], 101591); a photocopy of the entry 'de La Fresnaye de Saint-Aignan' in Baron de Woelmont de Brumagne's Notices généalogiques, Georges Saffroy Editeur, Paris, 1930, pp. 662–3; notes in the hand of Yves Roth on the same family extracted from Anon, Notice historique et généalogique de la maison de Broc. Le Mans, 1879; a letter from Michel Josseaume (1922–2020), Saint-Malo, dated 30 April 2000, with additional genealogical information and finally a photocopy of Edward Duyker's entry on La Fresnaye de Saint-Aignan in the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne (no. 55, juillet 2002, pp. 1837–9)

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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