[Collection of 40 manuscript documents relating to the French naval headquarters at Toulon, 1750-1796].

Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801

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France. Marine

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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Henri-Hector d'Estaing was born in Ravel, France, on November 24, 1729, the son of Charles-François d'Estaing, the Marquis de Salliant, and Marie-Henriette Colbert de Maulevrier. He served as a military officer during the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. He spent most of the latter conflict in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1762, and was governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1764-1766. D'Estaing was promoted to vice admiral i...

Sabran, Joseph de, 1702-1775.

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Bourbon, Louis Jean-Marie de, duc de Penthièvre, 1725-1793

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Né à Rambouillet en 1725, Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, est le fils unique de Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1678-1737), prince légitimé, comte de Toulouse, et de la duchesse Marie Victoire de Noailles. Le duc de Penthièvre succède à son père dans ses charges civiles et militaires (1737), à savoir Amiral de France, gouverneur de Bretagne et Grand Veneur de France. Il meurt dans son lit au château de Bizy (Normandie) après avoir vu par la mort de sa femme en 1754. Il v...

Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

Choiseul, Étienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785

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French statesman. From the description of Etienne-François, duc de Choiseul, correspondence, 1765. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453285 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Choiseul, to an unidentifeid marquis, 1763 Sept. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622147 French nobleman who served as secretary of state for foreign affairs, naval minister (1761-1766), and minister of war (1766-1770) under Louis XV, particularly influential during the Seve...

Thomas, Pierre de, 1684-1759.

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