HÉRAULT, GERS. Trade of feathers (poultry... - Lot 323 - Vermot et Associés

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HÉRAULT, GERS. Trade of feathers (poultry... - Lot 323 - Vermot et Associés
HÉRAULT, GERS. Trade of feathers (poultry down) coming from GERS. 28 Commercial letters addressed to Françoise GUY born BRUN, in MONTPELLIER (34). From Year 2 (1794) to 1808. Letters of Lorient (2), Condom (4), Mirande (4), Toulouse (10), Livourne (7), Nimes, and Montauban: "Lorient 5 Pluviôse Year 2: Problem with an Assignat, recognized false by the Commissioner verifier of Paris. Few peppers, those that the Company has are seized by the Government as well as the other goods...". Mirande 1807, Sending of bales of goose feathers and duck feathers "It is currently the moment that one kills the beautiful geese and that each one hastens to come to sell me their feathers, all delighted to give me the preference, which engages me to make this small trade and the gentlemen of Bordeaux requests me to buy all the feather that it will be possible to me, that they will come themselves to receive it at my place at the beginning of January.I must observe that the feather that we buy at present is called Plume grâce and the one that we will buy after Easter Plume sèche, because we strip our poor animals 3 times a year while they are still alive... at present we have superb weather... and 600 men of cavalry, we have housed 4 of them with their horses and today 1,000, all of them are going to give help to the King of Spain, our Ally... ". "Livorno 1798...The Insurers are extremely rebuffed, the French Corsairs even stop the Neutrals right under the cannon of the Fortress...we hope that given the price of the bills, your 3 bullets will give you a satisfactory result..." "Livorno 1798... the Corsairs with whom we are surrounded do not respect anything. They always find some reason to color an arrest, even an unjust one, the least evil that can happen is to grant them a sum to compromise with them... "
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