Manuscrit d'un voyage de France a Saint Domingue , à la Havanne et aux Unis États d'Amérique [sic], [manuscript] : contenant le sejour de la personne qui écrit, avec une description générale de toutes les cultures de St. Domingue, un rapport des événemens de la révolution de ce pays-la, qui ont en lieu depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1804, diverses observations politiques, & autres détails, diviséa en deux parties
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Manuscrit d'un voyage de France a Saint Domingue , à la Havanne et aux Unis États d'Amérique [sic], [manuscript] : contenant le sejour de la personne qui écrit, avec une description générale de toutes les cultures de St. Domingue, un rapport des événemens de la révolution de ce pays-la, qui ont en lieu depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1804, diverses observations politiques, & autres détails, diviséa en deux parties
- Publication date
- 1816
- Topics
- Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813, Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803, Soldiers, Sugar growing, Coffee industry, Cotton growing, Cocoa trade, Indigo industry, Imprint 1816
- Publisher
- [France? : s.n.]
- Collection
- jcbhaiti; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
- Contributor
- John Carter Brown Library
- Language
- French
2 parts (193, [3], 76 p.) ;|c23 cm. (4to)
Date of imprint from title page of part 2
Anonymous manuscript which contains a personal narrative of a former French soldier; includes an eye witness account of the colony of Saint-Domingue, its society and main agricultural products up until the very end of French rule. The matter of the revolution (1791-1804) is described only as far as 1797 and the deportation of Sonthonax, although the writer does include an appreciation of Toussaint Louverture. Part 1 (p. [1]-193) covers the author's early life in Paris when he enlists in the regiment for Cap-Français in 1785, gives a narration of his family in Paris, and notes that he deserted from the regiment in the Summer of 1786. The author also notes that he spent twelve years as a coffee planter and he writes a great deal about sugar, coffee, cotton, cocao, and indigo manufactures. Part 2 (p. [2-3], [1]-76, 2nd and 3rd counts) covers the revolution in Saint-Domingue up until 1797
Manuscript is written on quarto stock and is separated into two parts, each part having a separate written title page. Faint traces of rules are visible on the paper
Gatherings are sewn on canvas tabs; wanting covers though some evidence of brown paper wrappers is still visible
John Carter Brown Library copy housed in a modern slipcase which is half calf with pale green paper covered boards
Anonymous manuscript which contains a personal narrative of a former French soldier; includes an eye witness account of the colony of Saint-Domingue, its society and main agricultural products up until the very end of French rule. The matter of the revolution (1791-1804) is described only as far as 1797 and the deportation of Sonthonax, although the writer does include an appreciation of Toussaint Louverture. Part 1 (p. [1]-193) covers the author's early life in Paris when he enlists in the regiment for Cap-Français in 1785, gives a narration of his family in Paris, and notes that he deserted from the regiment in the Summer of 1786. The author also notes that he spent twelve years as a coffee planter and he writes a great deal about sugar, coffee, cotton, cocao, and indigo manufactures. Part 2 (p. [2-3], [1]-76, 2nd and 3rd counts) covers the revolution in Saint-Domingue up until 1797
Manuscript is written on quarto stock and is separated into two parts, each part having a separate written title page. Faint traces of rules are visible on the paper
Gatherings are sewn on canvas tabs; wanting covers though some evidence of brown paper wrappers is still visible
John Carter Brown Library copy housed in a modern slipcase which is half calf with pale green paper covered boards
Notes
Original Manuscript.
Contained some tight margins.
- Addeddate
- 2010-04-27 13:18:11
- Call number
- b5382284
- Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1048789928
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- manuscritdunvoya4179fran
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t1wd4j50n
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
- Ocr_detected_lang
- fr
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
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- Openlibrary_edition
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- Pages
- 282
- Pdf_module_version
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- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20100427165639
- Scanner
- scribe1.providence.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- providence
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 609412493
- Year
- 1816
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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Reviewer:
xephyr
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June 3, 2010
Subject: Beautiful handwritten manuscript
Subject: Beautiful handwritten manuscript
Simply marvelous handwriting from 1816. Entirely handwritten with some small illustrations. Excellent 'font' in the making.