ÎLE BOURBON - REUNION ISLAND - Lot 182

ÎLE BOURBON - REUNION ISLAND 20 documents, 1771-1873. ─ LA RIVIERE PENNIFORT family: - excerpts from Saint-Paul parish registers, April 1771 and October 1773. Burial certificates for Dame Marie Marthe La Rivière Pennifort, widow of M. Patras de Campagnoles [or Campaignol], who died on April 18, 1771, aged 80, and Demoiselle Hélène La Rivière Pennifort, aged 88 "approximately". Certified by Cyr Honoré François de CRÉMONT in Saint-Denis on April 31, 1773 with red wax seal. - Certified copy of the will of Hélène La Rivière Pennifort, bequeathing all her property to her niece Marie Françoise La Rivière Pennifort, wife of Jean Grayelle captain of the colony's militia. Certified and signed by Honoré de Crémont in Saint-Denis on August 31, 1773. - Notarial power of attorney drawn up in Brest on May 19, 1774 in favor of Georges Laurent Melier de La Roche, entrusted by Marie Françoise La Rivière Pennifort to manage her property in France. ─ Alexandre de CHALVET DE SOUVILL, governor of the island, and Jean Charles POTIER DE COURCY: document signed by both, Saint-Denis July 7, 1782, concerning the service of a master carpenter under the orders of the marine commissioner in charge of logging and timber extraction (letterhead and vignette). ─ Décret de la Convention nationale du 19 mars 1793 "qui change le nom de l'île de Bourbon en celui de l'île de la Réunion" (2 p. in-4). ─ Claude-Georges BARRILLON, merchant and shipowner. L.a.s., La Rochelle September 27, 1810, to a cousin in Nyons. While awaiting embarkation for the island of France [Mauritius], he recalled the surrender of Bourbon by British troops [signed July 8, 1810]. "Tous les habitans sont armés jusqu'aux enfants de 12 ans, - ils ne quittont les armes qu'avec la vie - quelle position!". ─ Laurent de MONTARBY. L.as. to his friend Auguste Forestier in Paris, Saint-Denis, September 20, 1815. In the aftermath of the Hundred Days. Recommends a young officer, announces his appointment as colonel for having rendered "some service to the King and the Queen" [Montarby resisted the English with the troops he commanded in Reunion], and hopes that everything will change for the better. ─ 2 letters addressed to Mme veuve Delmas in Bordeaux. Undated and Saint-Denis February 13, 1818. Account of the attack by Wahabis pirates on a schooner bound for Muscat in September 1817, during which Mrs. Delmas's son disappeared, was killed or kidnapped. The merchant Labadie had the few belongings of the young Delmas sent to his mother, along with the proceeds from the sale of a violin. ─ Athanase de BOUVET DE LOZIER. L.a.s. to the Duc d'Angoulême. [Paris] May 9, 1818. Announces the dispatch of his report on what happened in Bourbon during the two years of his governance [from April 6, 1815 to June 30, 1817]. ─ Six letters from operators or merchants to shipowners in Nantes. 4 letters to MM. Dobrée or Dobrée & Coninck. Saint-Denis, April 19 - January 24, 1838, and 2 letters to Messrs. Trillot and Crouan, Saint-Denis February 8 and June 27, 1873. Information concerning harvests, prices and quantities of foodstuffs and goods, including those imported from India. Enclosed: ─ L.a.s. from Pierre PIGNEAU DE BEHAINE bishop of Adran, Ile-de-France [Mauritius] April 16, 1788, hoping to reach India as M. de Conway prepares the Cochinchina expedition. ─ L.s. from Denis DECRÈS Minister of the Navy, aboard the Méduse, in Mindin harbor December 27, 1810, regarding the position of commander for the island of Java). ─ L.a.s. from Emily RUETE, née Sayyida Salme, daughter and sister of the Sultans of Zanzibar, convert to Christianity and wife of a German merchant, Dresden October 28, 1872, in German; with note in the hand of Baroness Hildegard von Spitzemberg, biographical note and press clippings, in German).