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JCB Book Collection
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Title:
Journal de mon séjour à Philadelphie 1793
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Journal de mon séjour à Philadelphie 1793
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Date:
1793
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1793
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Publisher:
[S.l. : s.n.]
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[S.l. : s.n.]
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Book Collection:
Haiti
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Haiti
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Language:
French
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French
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Call Number:
b5420755
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b5420755
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Digitizing Sponsor:
John Carter Brown Library
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John Carter Brown Library
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Book Contributor:
John Carter Brown Library
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John Carter Brown Library
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Identifier:
journaldemonsj00dieu
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journaldemonsj00dieu
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Added Date:
2010-08-18 18:21:32
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2010-08-18 18:21:32
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Identifier Url:
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http://www.archive.org/details/journaldemonsj00dieu
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Image Count:
58
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58
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PPI:
400
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400
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Operator:
xephyr@archive.org
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xephyr@archive.org
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OCR:
ABBYY FineReader 8.0
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ABBYY FineReader 8.0
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Camera:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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Author:
Dieulafoy, Michel, 1762-1823
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Dieulafoy, Michel, 1762-1823
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Subject:
Dieulafoy, Michel, 1762-1823
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Dieulafoy, Michel, 1762-1823
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Subject:
French
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French
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Subject:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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Subject:
Refugees
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Refugees
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Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund
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John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund
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Description:
[23] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo) Ms. codex
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[23] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo) Ms. codex
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Description:
Title from recto of leaf [1]
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Title from recto of leaf [1]
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Description:
Author's name appears on verso of leaf [22]
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Author's name appears on verso of leaf [22]
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Description:
The author was born in France and began his career in the civil service in Toulouse. Shortly before the French Revolution, he left to settle in Saint-Domingue, where he had relatives that owned plantations in Cap-Français. He witnessed the slave revolts of 1791 and left the island in 1793 when the followers of François Biassou set fire to Cap-Français. He hastily boarded a French ship for America where he made his way from Frenchtown, Maryland to Baltimore and then to Philadelphia, where there was a large refugee community
description
The author was born in France and began his career in the civil service in Toulouse. Shortly before the French Revolution, he left to settle in Saint-Domingue, where he had relatives that owned plantations in Cap-Français. He witnessed the slave revolts of 1791 and left the island in 1793 when the followers of François Biassou set fire to Cap-Français. He hastily boarded a French ship for America where he made his way from Frenchtown, Maryland to Baltimore and then to Philadelphia, where there was a large refugee community
Description
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Description:
In this particular journal written in July through September of 1793, the author describes his stay in Philadelphia and gives information about his day to day expenses and records copies of his letters to associates in Marseilles. While the journal primarily concerns his stay in Philadelphia, he also revisits the scenes of the the conflagration in in Cap-Français in 1793. The author gives a first hand account of the refugee life in Philadelphia, as he sought reimbursement from his debtors, also living in Philadelphia, who pleaded bankrupcy. He mentions the exhorbitant cost of living in his new home and speaks of an epidemic (possibly smallpox?) that raged in the city in the Summer of 1793. He also plans business ventures to recoup some of his lost wealth. At the end of the journal, the author books passage on a ship bound for France, closes the books on all his business affairs in Saint-Domingue, draws up his will and registers it in Philadelphia, and purchases provisions for the trip. The author recovered nicely when he returned to France, and became a playwright and a librettist
description
In this particular journal written in July through September of 1793, the author describes his stay in Philadelphia and gives information about his day to day expenses and records copies of his letters to associates in Marseilles. While the journal primarily concerns his stay in Philadelphia, he also revisits the scenes of the the conflagration in in Cap-Français in 1793. The author gives a first hand account of the refugee life in Philadelphia, as he sought reimbursement from his debtors, also living in Philadelphia, who pleaded bankrupcy. He mentions the exhorbitant cost of living in his new home and speaks of an epidemic (possibly smallpox?) that raged in the city in the Summer of 1793. He also plans business ventures to recoup some of his lost wealth. At the end of the journal, the author books passage on a ship bound for France, closes the books on all his business affairs in Saint-Domingue, draws up his will and registers it in Philadelphia, and purchases provisions for the trip. The author recovered nicely when he returned to France, and became a playwright and a librettist
Description
false
Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf wrapper; there is a whole in the rear wrapper
description
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf wrapper; there is a whole in the rear wrapper
Description
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Notes:
Handwritten manuscript.
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Handwritten manuscript.
Notes
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