HÉRAULT, GERS. Trade in feathers (poultry down) from the GER - Lot 343

HÉRAULT, GERS. Trade in feathers (poultry down) from the GERS. 28 Commercial letters addressed to Françoise GUY née BRUN, in MONTPELLIER (34). From Year 2 (1794) to 1808. Letters from Lorient (2), Condom (4), Mirande (4), Toulouse (10), Livorno (7), Nimes, and Montauban. "Lorient 5 Pluviôse Year 2: Problem with an Assignat, recognized false by the Commissioner auditor of bets. Few Peppers, those that the Company has are seized by the Government as well as Other goods..." Mirande 1807, Shipment of bales of goose feathers and duck feathers "It is currently the moment that the beautiful geese are killed and that each one hastens to come and sell me their feathers, all delighted to give me the preference, which commits me to make this small trade and the gentlemen of Bordeaux begs me to buy all the feathers that I can, that they will come to receive them themselves at the beginning of January.I must observe that the feather we buy now is called "Plume Grace" and the one we will buy after Easter is called "Plume Seche", because we undress our poor animals three times a year while they are still alive... at present we have superb weather... and 600 cavalrymen, we have housed four of them with their horses and today 1000, all of them will give aid to the King of Spain, our Ally...". " Livorno 1798 ...The Insurers are extremely repulsed, the French Corsairs even arrest the Neutrals under the cannon of the Fortress... we hope that considering the price of the bills, your 3 bullets will give you a satisfactory result..." "Livorno 1798... the Corsairs we are surrounded by respect nothing. They always find some reason to colour even an unjust arrest... the slightest evil that can happen is to grant them a sum to compromise with them..."