Manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville Death'

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Containers:
Box 5 (MS Acc22.020)
Component identifier:
File 87
Content Summary:
Constant-Dufeux, S. C., Roux de la Rochelle, J. B. G., 'Discours prononcés à l'inauguration du monument de Dumont d'Urville au cimetière du Montparnasse, le 1er novembre 1844', Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris, 3e série, ii, 1844, pp. 211–42; [Duperret, F.,] 'Obsèques de M. Dumont d'Urville', La Renommée: Biographie générale, tome ii, 2° année, 1842, pp. 527–9.;Vergniol, C., 'La fin tragique de Dumont-d'Urville', Lecture pour Tous, juillet 1930, pp. 99–106; Photocopies of extracts in Edward Duyker's hand from: Pinard, C., Relation exacte de l'affreuse catastrophe du 8 mai !!!, chemin de fer de Versailles (rive gauche) suivie de détails circonstanciés sur l'incendie de Hambourg, Berquet-Pétion, Pinard, 1842; Photocopies of extracts in Edward Duyker's hand from: Anon., 'Catastrophe du chemin de fer de Versailles (Rive Gauche), Revue générale de l'Architecture et des Travaux publics, vol. iii, 1842, pp. 134–5. Copies of emails between Edward Duyker and the Archives communales de Meudon, dated 3 July 2007, regarding the location of a memorial placque (1992) at the location of the railway catastrophe that claimed the life of Dumont d'Urville, his wife Adèle and son Jules Eugène Hector on 8 May 1842. It bears a pencil annotation in Edward Duyker's hand relating to the architect of the original monument demolished in 1959; Copies of emails (26-29 October 2017) between Edward Duyker and French historian Robert Veccella regarding documentation associated with Dumont d'Urville's birth, death and Légion d'honneur. It also includes death records for d'Urville's wife Adèle Dorothée Pépin and their son Jules Eugène Hector on 8 May 1842
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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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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