CHARENTE MARITIME. The RONDEAU family, of LA ROCHELLE (17); - Lot 226

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CHARENTE MARITIME. The RONDEAU family, of LA ROCHELLE (17); - Lot 226
CHARENTE MARITIME. The RONDEAU family, of LA ROCHELLE (17); 10 letters from 1773 to 1790. An interesting collection of letters from the son, RONDEAU, a young medical student who studied in Montpellier, Lyon, and Paris, addressed to his father, G. RONDEAU, a merchant on Rue Notre-Dame in La Rochelle (17). Regarding his medical studies, he hesitates about becoming a surgeon: “ ‘It’s just that “doctor” is an honorable title, one that will always serve me well.’ ‘I still have about ten écus left to pay on my board; I haven’t paid them because, since I needed a summer suit that I had made for myself, I was afraid of running out of money...” “I no longer go to the Hôtel-Dieu… since part of it burned down; however, as it was overflowing with patients, they decided to send some of them to St. Louis Hospital… which used to be for lepers… I am completely cured of scabies, though I still have some itching…”
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