Rose de FREYCINET (1794-1832)

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Rose de FREYCINET (1794-1832)
Born Pinon, wife of the navigator Louis-Claude de Freycinet, she accompanied him as a stowaway on his round-the-world voyage aboard the Uranie (1817-1820), and wrote the diary of his trip. L.A.S., Paris April 5, 1823, to her sister-in-law Clémentine de FREYCINET, in Saint-Denis, Bourbon Island, ; 1 page in-4, address (small tear due to breakage of seal touching 2 ends of lines; seal of the Archives de Laage). Rare letter of the navigator, addressed to her sister-in-law Clémentine, wife of Admiral Louis-Henri de Saulces de Freycinet (1777-1840), governor of Bourbon Island (Reunion Island). She sends him, through Mr. Allègre on the frigate of Mr. de Villaret, "the portrait of your dear little Louis" of which "the great papa Freycinet" had a copy made: "I think that in the absence of this dear child this portrait will be very pleasant for you, it will be doubly a pleasure for you since it is an attention of one of your friends, here is, in my opinion, the triumph of the talens of pleasure! She asks and gives news of the family, of the children's studies... "As for us, our health is quite good, we only aspire to the happiness of being reunited with you, because to live so far from all the members of one's family is to vegetate"...
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