DE GRAVIER (Family from the DORDOGNE). Saint-Domingue. Lawsu - Lot 171

DE GRAVIER (Family from the DORDOGNE). Saint-Domingue. Lawsuit between brothers, 1785–86 – 25 documents: Petition signed by the Count de GRAVIER, addressed to our Lords the Marshals of France, stating “that upon his return from St. DOMINGUE to France, he was cast ashore by a storm on the coast of Ireland, spent four months in England... upon arriving in Paris, he was taken to the Abbaye prison by order of Marshal de RICHELIEU... he requests to know the reasons for his detention... 1785” + Memoirs and documents from the trial, letters, petitions, and a letter signed by Marshal de RICHELIEU. An interesting file.

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