- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2487
- Collection Title:
- Augustin Dominique Tureaud papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 18
- Abstract:
- Includes a printed English transcript of the annotated clippings. and Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes the Alert's interception and interrogation by a British privateer, the Spring Bird, and subsequent capture by a British ship, the Crescent. Tureaud was held on suspicion of smuggling goods for the benefit of France. Describes Tureaud's detention and examination in Port Royal by the English Admiralty Court; an accidental shooting, an outbreak of yellow fever, several encounters with other English vessels, and an attempted mutiny by the crew following the resumption of the Alert's voyage to Vera Cruz; the ship's inhospitable reception by the Spanish governor of Vera Cruz; and Tureaud's eventual settlement in New Orleans and introduction into New Orleans society. Details the arrangement of his marriage to Elizabeth Bringier and several other romantic attachments.
- Description:
- Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, Tureaud settled in New Orleans, marrying fourteen-year-old Elizabeth (Betzy) Louise Bringier in 1803 to solidify a partnership with her father, Marius Pons Bringier. Tureaud later became a judge in Acadia County, Louisiana., Materials in French and English., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2003.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Latin America--Commerce--United States
- Subject (Name):
- Alert (Ship), Bringier, Marius Pons, Crescent (Ship), La Seine (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764, Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788, and Wood, Trist
- Subject (Topic):
- Merchant mariners--Personal narratives, Merchant marine--United States, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Naval operations, Times-picayune, and Yellow fever
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Printed transcription of Tureaud's diary and Trist Wood's introduction
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- Call Number:
- Z55 7
- Collection Title:
- Campo di fior, or else, The flovrie field of fovre langvages ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Campo di fiore di quatro lingue
- Collection Created:
- London, 1583
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Campo di fiore di qvatro lingve
- Creator:
- Chesneau, Augustin, active 17th century.
- Published / Created:
- MDCLXVII [1667]
- Call Number:
- 2007 498
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Emblemes sacrez svr le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'evcharistie and Orpheus eucharisticus. French
- Description:
- "Acheué d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 20. Ianuier 1666"--Colophon., Binding: green morocco, with interior dentelles., Chesneau identified as author in censors' permission and in privilege. His Orpheus eucharisticus (published by Lambert in 1657) was translated into French and shortened by Augustin Lubin., Signatures: pi² [dagger]⁴ A-M⁸ N⁶., and The "embleme dedicatoire" and 100 numbered emblems were etched by Albert Flamen. Cf. Landwehr.
- Publisher:
- Chez Florentin Lambert ...,
- Subject (Name):
- Flamen, Albert, active 17th century., Lambert, Florentin, -1693 or 1694, printer., and Lubin, Augustin, 1624-1695.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian ethics--Early works to 1800. and Emblems--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Emblemes sacrez sur le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'eucharistie.
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- Creator:
- Eardley-Wilmot, John, 1750-1815
- Call Number:
- Osborn c42
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- meetings, a printed document in Latin issued by
- Alternative Title:
- Case of the suffering clergy of France, refugees in the British dominions
- Subject (Geographic):
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Refugees--Sources, and Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--1789-1815
- Subject (Name):
- Eardley-Wilmot, John,--1750-1815
- Subject (Topic):
- Anti-Catholicism--Great Britain, Anticlericalism--France, and Clergy--France--Political activity--History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of letters, printed items, cuttings, etc., related to his chairmanship of the committee of subscribers for the relief of the suffering clergy of France, Refugees in the British Dominions, 1792-1814, 1792-1814.
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- Creator:
- Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460.
- Call Number:
- 1976 2813
- Image Count:
- 42
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
- Description:
- Latin verse beginning: Pergama flere volo
- Subject (Geographic):
- Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye / composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man, Raoul le ffeure, preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god, Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [sic] [et]c. ...