NAVY. PORT OF MORLAIX, Finistère. “French prisoner returning - Lot 396

NAVY. PORT OF MORLAIX, Finistère. “French prisoner returning from England.” Passport, in the Name of the Emperor (Napoleon I), issued at the Navy Office in Morlaix on December 7, 1812. “Louis LE DUC, a volunteer from Juilliers, aged 36, who disembarked at this port from the English parliamentary vessel LE BRILLIANE coming from the depot at PORTHMOUTH, having been taken from the C. LA CAROLINE, on which he embarked in Guadeloupe and on which he served as a volunteer, to return to Juilliers and report, immediately upon his arrival, to the Naval Commissioner of his district, on pain of being punished as a deserter…. “Let LE DUC pass freely… Valid for 10 days.”

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