MRP: Bordeaux

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Bordeaux

Editorial history

26/12/11, CSG: Created page





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Images

Map

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Bordeaux town plan, Nicholas de Fer, 1694


PLAN Bordeau Les Forces De LEurope De Fer N 1694 Ebay DL CSG 010112.PNG

Bordeaux panorama, Francois Savinien d'Alquie, 1685


thumbnail "'Bordeaux', F.S. d’Alquie, Les Delices de la France (Leiden, 1685)

Image credits & copyright information


(1) d’Alquie, Francois Savinien, 'Bordeaux', plate, Les Delices de la France, ou Description des Provinces & Villes Capitalles d’icelle: Comme Aussi La Description des Chateaux & Maisons Royalles. Plus Celle des nouvelles Conquetes, avec leurs Figures au naturel, vol. ? (Leiden, 1685), p. ?
- Out of copyright book

(2) De Fer, Nicholas, 'Bordeaux', plate, Les forces de le Europe, vol. ? (XXX, 1690-1695)
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Town profile




Notes


English merchants in Bordeaux


Nathan Wright

Little documentation is available on Nathan Wright's commercial activities prior to the mid-1640s, though Wright may have been located in Bordeaux in 1628.[1] If this is so, he may have started in the French wine trade, as did the Bristol born, but later London based, merchant, Sir Mathew Hollsworthy, whose family had strong historical links with Spanish trading.



Suggested image sources


View of Bordeaux and the river Garonne, signed by Jollain (engraving). C17th. Located at Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Nicolas de Fer, ‘Bordeaux...’, copper plate, 31,5 x 23 cm, from atlas ‘Les forces de le Europe’ (XXXX, 1690-95), viewed at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bordeaux-Aquitaine-Fer-1694-/310211114433?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483a05f5c1 (17/06/11)



Suggested primary sources


BL, Sloane. 1745, Account of Thomas Browne's journey from Bourdeaux to Paris, 1662. ff. 22-29
- Thomas Browne Jnr is son of Dr Browne who corresponded with Dr Escaliot



Suggested secondary sources

  1. Nathan Wright: SP 78/83 Order in Council concerning Nathan Wright and others residing at Bordeaux. 1628 Apr. 21. See also Nathan Wright will