Manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville Marriage'

Containers:

Box 3 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 53

Content Summary:

Contains photocopies of Contrat de mariage de Dumont d'Urville et Adèle Dorothée Pépin passé devant Maître Fournier, notaire à Toulon, le 28 avril 1815, held in the Office Notarial Pieroni-Mignon, Toulon; the death registration for d'Urville's father-in-law Joseph Pépin, in January 1837, printed from the online État Civil registers for Toulon held by Archives départementales du Var, Draguignan; two articles, provided by the Archives municipales, Ville de Cluses, France: one by Jean Rossat dated October 1982 (but from an unknown newspaper), the other by Gaston Rouillon, in Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Française, No. 43, 1981, dealing with a Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises stamp (1981) honouring d'Urville's wife, Adèle Dumont d'Urville (née Pépin); also included a letter from Gilbert Coutaz, Director, Archives cantonales vaudoises, Chavannes-près-Renens, Switzerland, 25 August 2010, to Edward Duyker, on the subject of 'Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) et ses connexions genevoises et vaudoises'; transcription of: l'acte de baptême de Joseph Marie Pépin (d'Urvillle's father-in-law) 5 mai 1770, from the Service des Archives et du Patrimoine, Cluses, France

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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