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Title: Letter : Versailles, to Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1778 December 8
Creator: Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801, author
Contributor: Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794, addressee
Date Created and/or Issued: 1778-12-08
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Autograph letter, signed, describing Destouches taking command of the vessel Pluton, that the king has armed in Rochefort, France. The letter is dated "le 8 DCbre 1778" at Versailles, at the top of the first page. Signed and addressed to Destouches also on the first page. Verso is blank. Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent: 1 letter (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Identifier: mssDE 100
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/10531
Language: French
French
Subject: Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801
Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794
Versailles (France)
Pluton (Ship)
Admirals--France--Correspondence
France. Marine
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations
Letters (correspondence) France 18th century. (aat)
Letters (correspondence) United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Military records France 18th century. (aat)
Military records United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Source: Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804 (bulk 1780-1781) ; Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
mssDE Box 1
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926.

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