Saint-Domingue.

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Saint-Domingue.
- MONIER DE LA QUARRÉE (Charles-François Joseph, the abbot). Set of 20 autograph letters, including one signed, addressed to Baron de Montalembert, colonel of the British legion in Port-au-Prince. London, Newport (Isle of Wight), 1793-1796 and n.d. 100 pages in total, some folded, in a volume in-4, half basane fauve, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). Precious correspondence, of great importance for the history of the British Legion of Saint-Domingue. Jean-Charles de Montalembert, born in 1757 in Louisbourg (Cape Breton, Canada), organized and directed the British Legion in Saint-Domingue to help the French counter-revolutionary colonists. Shortly before the evacuation of the island, he left for Trinidad where he died in 1810. Father Monier de La Quarrée, born in Vaucluse in 1752, had emigrated to London where he became chaplain of the Legion of Montalembert: His various memoirs and correspondence with the Baron de Montalembert were an important source of the history of this corps [...]. The important part was the correspondence relating to the negotiations carried out by Malouet and the Marquis de Bouillé in 1795 with the English and with the Directory for the English to evacuate Santo Domingo [...]. Three quarters of these documents were burned in 1911 at Viers (Vaucluse) and the rest were lost around 1925, without the desired benefit having been fully exploited (Gabriel Debien, "Les Travaux d'histoire sur Saint-Domingue, chronique bibliographique" in Outre-Mers, Revue d'histoire, 1960, n°166, p. 151). This correspondence evokes revolutionary and political events in Europe (the sieges of Mainz, Valenciennes and Condé in 1792-1793, the preparations for the defence of Lyon, the capture of Austrian Flanders by the Republican armies in 1794, etc.).), and contains details on the situation in Santo Domingo and the British Legion: the granting of an English colonel's license to Montalembert, the right to a share of the profits from t
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