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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy letters

 Collection
Accession: 1079
Abstract:

Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy (1750-1806) was a military engineer and politician, including serving in the Estates General of 1789. This collection consists of six letters from Bureaux de Pusy to Marie Charles Cesar Fay, Comte de Latour-Maubourg (1756-1831), who had been interned with La Fayette (1757-1834). The letters contain references to La Fayette and his wife, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817).

Dates: 1797-1798

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours letters to Charles César de Fay

 Collection
Accession: 0402
Abstract:

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) was a French political economist, writer, publisher, and public administrator. In the letters to Marie Charles César de Fay, Comte de Latour-Maubourg (1756-1831), du Pont de Nemours explains plans for creating a French colony in America.

Dates: 1798 May 5-1798 June 9