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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton
This detailed biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Bréton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer. After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing. Uprooted by the French Revolution, DuBignon fled to Georgia late in 1790, settling among other refugees from France and the Car...
Le noir et le rouge
Pascal-Antoine Grimaud, après une longue carrière de chanoine et d'enseignant sous l'Ancien Régime puis de franc jacobin sous la Révolution, figure le noir et le rouge. Il est aussi le fil conducteur à travers la société clermontoise du XVIIIe siècle, ses milieux marchands, ses cercles intellectuels, ses communautés religieuses. Grimaud nous ouvre les portes de réseaux multiples.
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