SARTHE. LE MANS. LA QUINTE. Archive of the LEPELTIER FORVÉTU - Lot 44

SARTHE. LE MANS. LA QUINTE. Archive of the LEPELTIER FORVÉTU Family. Over 200 letters and documents from 1643 to 1843: Records of the Court of the Marquisate of Lavardin, La Quinte, 1643–1645. Guillaume FORVÉTU was caretaker of the Château de COULANS (Sarthe) in 1740; FORVÉTU served as tax collector in La Ferté Bernard in 1782; Julien FORVÉTU was mayor from 1809 to 1810. Accounts of the FORVÉTU minor, 1821. Papers from the Royal Military College of La Flèche belonging to student LEPELTIER, 1837, Extract from marriage records and civil registry records of the Canton of COULIE, 1833; invoices, letters, notarial deeds, and court records extracted from the Le Mans court registry. Account sheets from 1838. Military papers from the career of Mr. René Jean LEPELTIER, Captain, born in La Quinte in 1790, residing in Le Mans (Sarthe), who served in the campaigns in Germany in 1809, in Italy in 1813, 1814, and the African campaign of 1830; Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor. His service record from 1830. He is married to Jeanne FORVÉTU, daughter of Julien FORVÉTU, notary in La Quinte (Sarthe). He served as acting captain commanding the 15th Line Infantry Battalion; garrison commander in Cahors (Lot). Expense ledger of Private Lepeltier from 1813. His appointment as battalion commander, signed by Marshal CLARKE, Duke of Feltre. Letter from General Jean Antoine VERDIER, Verona, January 4, 1814; from L. GÉRARD, Field Marshal commanding the Department of Sarthe; from the Viscount de CAUX, 1829; from the Viscount de CHAMPAGNY, 1819, from Marshal Count GÉRARD, 1830, an officer’s travel order, from the Prefect of Lot, from the Mayor of Cahors, 184. Documents concerning his Legion of Honor: Letter from Dominique DUFOUR DE PRADT, Archbishop of Mechelen (Deputy of the Clergy of Caux in 1789), in his capacity as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, Paris, 1814, to LEPELTIER. He sends him a duplicate of his certificate of appointment as Knight of the Legion. Letter from Marshal Joseph MORTIER, Duke of Trévise, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, to Lepeltier, Knight of the Legion of Honor (1833). Letter from Étienne Denis PASQUIER, Chancellor of France. He is a member of the Electoral College of the SARTHE.