CHARENTE MARITIME. RONDEAU family, from LA ROCHELLE (17); 10 - Lot 222

CHARENTE MARITIME. RONDEAU family, from LA ROCHELLE (17); 10 letters from 1773 to 1790. Interesting correspondence from the son RONDEAU, a young doctor studying in Montpellier, Lyon and Paris, addressed to his father G. RONDEAU Négociant, Rue Notre-Dame à la Rochelle (17). On his medical studies. He hesitates to become a surgeon: "It's that doctor is an honorable title, which will always serve me well" "I still have to pay about ten écus on my pension; I haven't paid them because as I needed a summer suit which I had made, I feared I would run out of money...". "I no longer continue to go to the Hôtel Dieu... as only part of it burned down, but as we were overflowing with sick people, we decided to send part of them to the Hôpital St-Louis... which was formerly used for lepers... I am perfectly cured of the scabies, but I still have a few itches...".