Jean-Antoine Lafargue de GRANGENEUVE (1751-1793) lawyer, deputy of the Gironde to the Legislative and the Convention, arrested with the Girondins, fled to Bordeaux, was discovered and guillotined. L.A.S., Bordeaux March 26, 1778, to M. Moynier "notary and prosecutor at the Seneschal" in Bergerac; 1 page in-4, address. "Always late, that is my motto. He asks to send money orders for the rents of the apartment of the Frescarode girls, always in trouble. But why are you my friend? Do not take any more from now on which must be as much with load to you, and however lay out by revenge of this one, in all that will be of its capacity "...

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