81 - Excerpts from the Records of the Chancellery of the French Embassy at the Ottoman Court, dated September 2, 1779.

Excerpts from the Records of the Chancellery of the French Embassy at the Ottoman Court, dated September 2, 1779. Marriage contract of Pierre-Jérôme Dupré, a merchant in Adrianople, and Marie Barbier, daughter of Philippe Barbier, dated September 2, 1779, excerpts from the Registers of the Chancellery of the French Embassy at the Ottoman Porte, Constantinople, collated by Antoine Fonton, elected provisional head of the French Nation at the Ottoman Porte, and countersigned by the embassy chancellor Pierre Fonton, with the embassy’s embossed seal. Two manuscripts in brown ink on paper, 2 ½ and 1 ½ pages. Folds, stains, and tears. Provenance - Pierre-Jérôme Dupré. - His son, Pierre Jean François Adrien Dupré (Andrinople, 1779–1831), French Consul in Thessaloniki. - His son, Georges Charles Adrien Dupré (1827–1917), cavalry colonel, Officer of the Legion of Honor, and second husband of Félicie-Marie Lahure (1832–1822), daughter of Baron Gustave Napoléon Lahure (1805–1892). - Then passed down through the family.