Bonaparte family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Camille Doucet correspondence
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1554
Abstract:
Collection of circa 11,000 letters addressed to Camille Doucet (1812-1895), director of the Superintendance générale des théâtres de France and member of the Académie française, from upwards of 1150 correspondents. It offers rich documentation of the French arts and letters in the second half of the 19th century and, in particular, of Doucet’s influence over French theater in his capacity as head of the administration of theaters in the imperial government of Napoleon III between 1853 and...
Dates:
1832-1920, bulk 1850-1895
Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau papers relating to the French West Indies
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1576
Scope and Contents:
The papers consist of 56 dossiers containing over 3600 documents relating to government of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and other French colonies in the West Indies, most dating from Rochambeau’s term as gouverneur général des Isles du Vent, 1792-1794. Also present are small amounts of papers created by earlier colonial administrators, 1762-1791, or relating to Rochambeau’s surrender to the British, parole, and return to Saint-Domingue, 1794-1802. Twenty-one maps, most in ink and watercolor,...
Dates:
1758-1802, bulk 1792-1794