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Bretagne - LE BRETON DE BLESSIN (Guillaume). Correspondence notebook. [Saint-Malo], 1841-1845. Autograph manuscript, with erasures and corrections. In-folio (30.2 x 19.5 cm) of (20) pp. plus 2 ff. left blank; paperback, untrimmed. The personal correspondence of a Saint-Malo merchant. This notebook, numbered "2" on the first page, contains 45 summaries of letters written by Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin to his family between June 26, 1841 and March 19, 1845. The recipients are Lucile Le Breton de Blessin, his sister, living in Pontivy (Morbihan), widow of Louis Marie Gaspard Cormier (9 letters), and Luc Le Breton de Blessin, his brother, living in La Costardais (Ille-et-Vilaine), husband of Henriette Renée de Guéheneuc (36 letters). Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin was born in Saint-Malo in 1779, into a family of shipowners and merchants. He was the son of Alain Le Breton de Blessin, Lieutenant of the Marshals of France, and Marie Hélène Eon. In 1810, he married Victoire Sophie Charlotte Augrain, born in Le Robert (Martinique) in 1790, who died in Saint-Malo on July 3, 1841 (her death is mentioned in the letter of July 12). She was the daughter of Gaud Laurent Augrain, a merchant in Fort-Royal, killed in the Morne Vert-Pré battle against Rochambeau in June 1793, and Marie Anne Charlotte Françoise Jaham de Courcilly, born in Le Robert and whose family had been established in Martinique since the 17th century. Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin died in Saint-Malo on May 23, 1845, two months after the end of this correspondence. Well-preserved document; a few annotations in pencil and ink in the margins.

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Bretagne - LE BRETON DE BLESSIN (Guillaume). Correspondence notebook. [Saint-Malo], 1841-1845. Autograph manuscript, with erasures and corrections. In-folio (30.2 x 19.5 cm) of (20) pp. plus 2 ff. left blank; paperback, untrimmed. The personal correspondence of a Saint-Malo merchant. This notebook, numbered "2" on the first page, contains 45 summaries of letters written by Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin to his family between June 26, 1841 and March 19, 1845. The recipients are Lucile Le Breton de Blessin, his sister, living in Pontivy (Morbihan), widow of Louis Marie Gaspard Cormier (9 letters), and Luc Le Breton de Blessin, his brother, living in La Costardais (Ille-et-Vilaine), husband of Henriette Renée de Guéheneuc (36 letters). Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin was born in Saint-Malo in 1779, into a family of shipowners and merchants. He was the son of Alain Le Breton de Blessin, Lieutenant of the Marshals of France, and Marie Hélène Eon. In 1810, he married Victoire Sophie Charlotte Augrain, born in Le Robert (Martinique) in 1790, who died in Saint-Malo on July 3, 1841 (her death is mentioned in the letter of July 12). She was the daughter of Gaud Laurent Augrain, a merchant in Fort-Royal, killed in the Morne Vert-Pré battle against Rochambeau in June 1793, and Marie Anne Charlotte Françoise Jaham de Courcilly, born in Le Robert and whose family had been established in Martinique since the 17th century. Guillaume Le Breton de Blessin died in Saint-Malo on May 23, 1845, two months after the end of this correspondence. Well-preserved document; a few annotations in pencil and ink in the margins.

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