LOIRET - DENAINVILLIERS - DUHAMEL de FOUGEROUX family / Fond - Lot 140

LOIRET - DENAINVILLIERS - DUHAMEL de FOUGEROUX family / Fonds de correspondances adressées à cette famille en partie au Château de Denainvilliers, Années 1830 (family context: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, the great scientist of the Age of Enlightenment, was the owner of the Château de Denainville, which was the site of his work. His nephew and main collaborator Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy inherited it and passed it on to his son Auguste Duhamel de Fougeroux, 1766-1836, senior civil servant) - This correspondence of around 50 letters is mostly addressed to Agathe Fougeroux de Secval, 1776-1858, wife of his cousin Auguste Duhamel de Fougeroux, by numerous ladies of the aristocracy, In addition, it contains newsletters and letters from the director of the Collège Royal de Marine in Rochefort, where her son Edmond was a student, as well as several drafts of letters from Madame de Fougeroux, and various notes, including an important letter addressed to Fougeroux de Bondaroy concerning the will of his uncle Duhamel du Monceau, as well as a copy of the will of Antoine de Fougeroux de Gondovilliers (Auguste's brother) - Noteworthy in this set is a souvenir of the French Revolution: in Year 2, a member of the Comité de Salut Publique summoned the "citizen widow Titon Dorgery" (Angélique de Fougeroux, widow of Daniel-Augustin Titon d'Orgery), who was "required in the name of the loyal people to go to the salpeter workshop at five o'clock in the morning, equipped with a shovel and a pickaxe, to perform the service that will be ordered of her".