Collection ID: 0052 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• G. G. Ducarel

Other related names

• Comte de la Pasture, former owner

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Language

Origin

Place

Exmouth, England

Summary

Letter by G.G. Ducarel opposing the Comte de la Pasture's courtship of Ducarel's daughter Elizabeth. Ducarel states his reasons are because of the Comte's status as a noble emigrant from Revolutionary France, the fortunes of both parties, the Comte's religion, and the custody of Elizabeth's child with her first husband, Archibald Foulkes. The Foulkes family strongly disliked Elizabeth.

Notes

• In 1791, the First French Republic passed a law that if noble emigrants did not return by January 1, 1792, their lands would be seized and any later returnees executed. Many citizens had fled France due to the French Revolution and settled in countries like Great Britain, the German states, and the United States.
   

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Provenance

• Palmer Family Archive, Devon, England
   

Keywords

• Letter
• Marriage
• Great Britain
• England
• Patriarchy
• France
• French Revolution
• Class
• Nobility
• Child custody
• Masculinity
• Fatherhood
• Religion
• Family
• Aristocracy

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