Manila folder labelled 'Rue Madame Dumont d'Urville'

Containers:

Box 5 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 86

Content Summary:

By 24 October 1841, the d'Urville family had moved into an apartment in a three-storey building at 26 rue Madame, close to the Jardin du Luxembourg. This was while d'Urville prepared the official account of his final voyage for publication. Although the building no longer stands and the street has been renumbered (see Saunier, C., 'Le numérotage de la rue Madame', Bulletin de la Société historique du VI° arrondissement de Paris, tome xxix, 1928, pp. 75–86), we know from a notarial inventory and a cadastral plan that it was on the corner of rue Madame and rue de Fleurus. The folder contains photocopies of notes in Edward Duyker's hand 6/3/2007, during research at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, regarding the rue Madame, Paris, where Dumont d'Urville and his wife and surviving son were residing at the time of their deaths. On page 482 of his biography, Duyker included a photograph of the building which appears in an album of photographs taken by Henri Blanchard in 1887 (Paris Album Blancard, 1887–1889 (Rue Madame), Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, 4° 21, 15 H). The d'Urvilles' landlord was an engraver named Joseph Molé (died 1853) (see Duyker, Dumont d'Urville, p. 483). Joseph Molé also owned the adjoining property at no. 24 (now 58 rue Madame and the location of the Église Réformée de Pentemont-Luxembourg). He lived in the same building with his adopted son Paul-Henri-Joseph Molé-Gentilhomme (1814–1856), the author of many melodramatic novels and plays. The folder contains copies of catalogue entries from the Bibliothèque nationale de France for some of Molé-Gentilhomme's melodramatic works. The folder also contains photocopies (2 pages) from Vasserot Bellanger, Atlas général des quarante-huit quartiers de la Ville de Paris: Plan géométrique du Quartier du Luxembourg (11me arrondissement)

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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History

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