Letter [written in French] from Georgette Ducrest in Toulouse to the Princesse de Polignac, [later Duchesse de Polignac],
1836 Oct. 4.
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| Summary: | Georgette Ducrest, (1789-1882) [niece of Madame de Genlis], writes from Toulouse to Maria Charlotte Parkyns, (1792-1864), Comtesse de Choiseul, Princesse de Polignac, later Duchesse de Polignac, [a daughter of the Irish peer Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron de Rancliffe] saying that she had been ‘garde-malade’ [a nurse or care-giver] to Lady Pamela Fitzgerald, (ca. 1773-1831), and that she was with her when she died on 7 November 1831 in the Hôtel Danube, on the outskirts of Paris. [Pamela was buried at Montmartre at the expense of Adélaïde Orléans but her remains were brought back to the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Thames Ditton, outside London and laid to rest with her elder daughter, Pamela (Lady Guy Campbell) and their descendants, in the Campbell family plot in the 1880s]. Georgette includes a manuscript programme of a concert given by her dated 17 September 1836 and seeks support for a concert that she hopes to give at Montauban [50 km north of Toulouse]. |
| In collection: | Conolly-Napier papers, 1783-1840. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | French Letter and manuscript programme entirely in French. |
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| Notes: | Includes a manuscript programme of a concert given by Georgette Ducrest, dated 17 September 1836. Georgette Ducrest, (1789-1882) was the daughter of Charles Louis du Crest, Marquis de Saint-Aubin, (1747-1824) whose sister was Madame de Genlis, (1746-1830). Born in London and a talented musician, in 1811 she married the harpist Nicolas Charles Bochsa, (1789-1856). They had two children but after a corruption scandal in 1817 he fled to London and he abandoned her, leaving her with debts. She moved to France, residing for a time in the neighbourhood where Joséphine de Beauharnais previously lived and she published her memories in 1828 in 'Mémoires sur l'impératrice Joséphine'. Physical description: 1 item (2 sheets). more |
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Letter [written in French] from Georgette Ducrest in Toulouse to the Princesse de Polignac, [later Duchesse de Polignac],
1836 Oct. 4.
| In Collection: | Conolly-Napier papers, 1783-1840. |
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| Description: | Georgette Ducrest, (1789-1882) [niece of Madame de Genlis], writes from Toulouse to Maria Charlotte Parkyns, (1792-1864), Comtesse de Choiseul, Princesse de Polignac, later Duchesse de Polignac, [a daughter of the Irish peer Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron de Rancliffe] saying that she had been ‘garde-malade’ [a nurse or care-giver] to Lady Pamela Fitzgerald, (ca. 1773-1831), and that she was with her when she died on 7 November 1831 in the Hôtel Danube, on the outskirts of Paris. [Pamela was buried at Montmartre at the expense of Adélaïde Orléans but her remains were brought back to the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Thames Ditton, outside London and laid to rest with her elder daughter, Pamela (Lady Guy Campbell) and their descendants, in the Campbell family plot in the 1880s]. Georgette includes a manuscript programme of a concert given by her dated 17 September 1836 and seeks support for a concert that she hopes to give at Montauban [50 km north of Toulouse]. |
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| Language: | French Letter and manuscript programme entirely in French. |
| Extent: | 1 item (2 sheets). |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 40,242/31
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland. |