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France -- Colonies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85051201

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to Lucile

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0544
Overview A numbered series of letters to Lucile from an unknown man living in on Guadeloupe, an island in the Lesser Antilles, during the early nineteenth century. Alternating between verse and prose, they discuss the geography, geology, and agriculture of the island, as well as reveal details about local creole culture.
Dates: after 1803 and before 1815
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Letters to Lucile

Marguerite Le Noir De Rouvray, Comtesse de Lostanges Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0877
Overview Letters and papers reflecting the social, political and economic disorder in Santo Domingo, where the Comtesse was an important land owner, together with miscellaneous items pertaining to Duke Gaston Pierre Marc de Levis, as well as . The collection also includes references to Comtesse de Lostanges' father, the Marquis Laurent Francois Le Noir de Rouvray. In French.
Dates: 1775 - 1852
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Marguerite Le Noir De Rouvray, Comtesse de Lostanges Papers