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Commerce - [PECHOLIER (Raymond)]. [Register of handwritten correspondences]. Sl [Bordeaux and Montauban], 1758-1772. 2 vol. in-folio, [102] and [82] ff. covered with an average and legible handwriting (about 45 lines per page), some erasures and strikethroughs, [11] bl. ff, some of which were used, in a later period, for drawings in wood pencil; as well as a flying f. in-8 attached to f. 14 of the first volume (an isolated letter of September 13, 1759 addressed to Chapdu, in Cape Town, by another author), stiff vellum, traces of laces (period binding). Missing the spine and much of the vellum on the bottom board in volume II. Business correspondence records of a Bordeaux firm specializing in the wine and brandy trade. 1. From August 3, 1758 to November 20, 1765. - 2. 23 November 1765 to 30 September 1772. Each missive is preceded by the city of the addressee, his name and the date, which gives a very precise idea of the extent of the business relations involved: merchants from Dunkirk or London (Melchior Didier, Edouard & fils, Thomas Pecholier - see below); banking companies from Paris or London (Thellusson & Necker; Mestrezat, Liotard & Aubertin, Fonblanque & Thellusson, etc.) The author is Raymond Pécholier, from a Protestant family of the Montalban area, many of whose members emigrated to the English refuge to protect their faith: born in 1724, he settled in Bordeaux, while keeping, it seems, a "countryside" in Montauban or in the surroundings, and married on February 6, 1771 Anne de Grenier de Fonblanque, from another famous Huguenot family of the region. With the exception of a very small number of personal letters, almost all of this commercial correspondence concerns the business of Raymond Pécholier's trading house, with international activities and interests: Quebec (until 1760), Port-au-Prince, Cape Town, Les Cayes [Saint-Domingue], London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Port-Louis [Île de France]... The activities, linked to the trade of wines, brandy, "plum", coffee, are also very diversified: classic financial operations but especially chartering and transport of goods and the armament of the ports (Bordeaux, Bayonne, La Rochelle, Rouen, a little Marseille), the arrivals or the shipwrecks of the ships, and consequently the maritime insurance, etc. (more details on request.)
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Commerce - [PECHOLIER (Raymond)]. [Register of handwritten correspondences]. Sl [Bordeaux and Montauban], 1758-1772. 2 vol. in-folio, [102] and [82] ff. covered with an average and legible handwriting (about 45 lines per page), some erasures and strikethroughs, [11] bl. ff, some of which were used, in a later period, for drawings in wood pencil; as well as a flying f. in-8 attached to f. 14 of the first volume (an isolated letter of September 13, 1759 addressed to Chapdu, in Cape Town, by another author), stiff vellum, traces of laces (period binding). Missing the spine and much of the vellum on the bottom board in volume II. Business correspondence records of a Bordeaux firm specializing in the wine and brandy trade. 1. From August 3, 1758 to November 20, 1765. - 2. 23 November 1765 to 30 September 1772. Each missive is preceded by the city of the addressee, his name and the date, which gives a very precise idea of the extent of the business relations involved: merchants from Dunkirk or London (Melchior Didier, Edouard & fils, Thomas Pecholier - see below); banking companies from Paris or London (Thellusson & Necker; Mestrezat, Liotard & Aubertin, Fonblanque & Thellusson, etc.) The author is Raymond Pécholier, from a Protestant family of the Montalban area, many of whose members emigrated to the English refuge to protect their faith: born in 1724, he settled in Bordeaux, while keeping, it seems, a "countryside" in Montauban or in the surroundings, and married on February 6, 1771 Anne de Grenier de Fonblanque, from another famous Huguenot family of the region. With the exception of a very small number of personal letters, almost all of this commercial correspondence concerns the business of Raymond Pécholier's trading house, with international activities and interests: Quebec (until 1760), Port-au-Prince, Cape Town, Les Cayes [Saint-Domingue], London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Port-Louis [Île de France]... The activities, linked to the trade of wines, brandy, "plum", coffee, are also very diversified: classic financial operations but especially chartering and transport of goods and the armament of the ports (Bordeaux, Bayonne, La Rochelle, Rouen, a little Marseille), the arrivals or the shipwrecks of the ships, and consequently the maritime insurance, etc. (more details on request.)
