COLONIES. SEINE-ET-OISE - André HAUDRY DE SOUCY (Paris 1765 - Lot 320

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COLONIES. SEINE-ET-OISE - André HAUDRY DE SOUCY (Paris 1765 - Lot 320
COLONIES. SEINE-ET-OISE - André HAUDRY DE SOUCY (Paris 1765 - 1844) General farmer, Royalist, Deputy of Seine-et-Oise in 1815, 1820 and 1824. Letter A.S. HAUDRY DE SOUCY, addressed to Mr. FOACHE Trader in HAVRE. Paris 21 June 1820. 3 pages in-4°. "My dear friend... A Commission has just been appointed to the Minister of the Colonies, composed of several members, to deal with the situation of the colonies and the means to remedy it; the work has been distributed to each of the members, from which it resulted that Mr. LE VERGIER D'HAURANNE is in charge of CAYENNE; Mr... of GUADELOUPE; Mr. LEFEBVRE, banker in Paris, of what concerns MARTINIQUE... Send us the memorandum of your Chamber of Commerce, so that SOUCY can read it and talk to this gentleman (LEFEBVRE)... I am sending you some questions that I had proposed to a man skilled in the manufacture of beet sugar, who also knows the manufacture of sugar in the Colonies where he spent 4 years. The answers are beside the point. They do not give me the conviction that we can make use of the new processes in our Habitations (Farms). We work too much and need too much handling, nevertheless if you think it would be useful to make a trial. One could send by 1st occasion of this famous animal coal. You are a dizzy one, we knew well the Viscount of TURPIN, but not his wife, our niece is Countess of TURPIN CUISSÉ..."
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