MRP: Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Editorial history

26/12/11, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See France

See Lyons
See Marseilles
See Paris
See Rouen
See Toulon

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Images

Map

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Bordeaux town plan, Nicholas de Fer, 1694

Bordeaux panorama, Francois Savinien d'Alquie, 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)
- XXXX

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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. 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.

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Mentions of Bordeaux in Wiki primary documents

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Wills

Francis Breton

See Francis Breton will 1

- Francis Breton listed debts with three brokers in Bordeaux as an annexed schedule to this his first will, written in 1634. He took a job in the East Indies to try to rebuild his fortunes and to repay his debts
- "Schedule of the debts owing by mee Testator as followeth...

To M:r ?Benoist de Coud of Bourdeaux in ffrance Broker sixe hundred pounds of like money by severall bonds
To Elias ?Hasoure alsoe of Bourdeaux Broker eighty pounds of like money
To William de Verdury of Bourdeaux Merchant due upon Accompts ffifty two pounds of like money"

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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)

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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

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