Mémoire et arbre généalogique de la maison Deffrans, originaire de Niort en Poitou, etablie à Toulons en Provence le 15. X.bre [i.e. decembre] 1762.
Published: 1790
Language: fre
Subjects: Deffrance family.; Nobility -- France -- Genealogy.
Notes: Manuscript. The principal part is in one hand, with additions in a later hand, apparently that of an agent of M. Hozier de Sérigny, juge d'armes de la noblesse de France, and a certification as to the accuracy of the document in the later hand, signed (in a third hand) at Paris on Apr. 19, 1790, by vicomte Henry de Ségur. Certain additions and corrections are in a hand not unlike that of the vicomte.
Attached to the sheet is a manuscript leaf, signed "A Montauban, le 7 aoust 1789, Deffrans, capitaine des grenadiers au Régit. d'infanterie de Languedoc," stating that the document is submitted as proof of the nobility of two sons, required to gain admission to the Ecole royale militaire.
Ownership stamp: Cabinet d'Hozier (inside oval border surrounding coat of arms surmounted by crown)
Purchased by the Library of Congress June 28, 1988.