SEINE-SAINT-DENIS. The HOCQUART family of MONTFERMEIL, Lords - Lot 547

SEINE-SAINT-DENIS. The HOCQUART family of MONTFERMEIL, Lords of Montfermeil (93) and Coubron (93). Preparatory file for the trial of 2 Fructidor, Year 8 (August 20, 1800) - Pleadings on behalf of Madame BEAUMANOIR, widow of HOCQUART MONTFERMEIL, against Citizen LOISON—26 folio pages and 4 pages in-8°—Deliberations of the Council, the opinion of the Director of National Estates regarding her woods; Drafts of a petition to the Prefect of the Seine and to the First Consul; Observations. “Is of the opinion that the mere fact of EMIGRATION brought about the dissolution of the marital community between the said HOCQUART and her husband. The confiscation of one spouse’s property necessarily severs the marital community...” Jean-Hyacinthe-Louis Hocquart (1752–1798), a cavalry officer; on March 2, 1778, he had married his cousin, Eugénie Gaillard de Beaumanoir.