France -- Colonies

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single printed French royal edict titled Édit du Roi, portant création d'un contrat d’un million deux cent mille livres de rente, au principal de trente millions, au profit de la Compagnie des Indes, published in Paris by P.G. Simon in 1770. The edict spans two disbound leaves (four pages) in quarto format.Issued in the wake of the dissolution of the Compagnie des Indes (Indies Company), the edict outlines the financial...

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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.

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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.