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BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE

Auguste Girault (also known as Augustin Louis Laurent Giraud), was a native of Nantes, France, who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and worked as a music professor. He had a wife, Feliciana, and four children, Auguste, Charles, Leonid, and Eugène.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Papers include three passports, one granted to Augustin Louis Laurent Girault to go to Cayenne (1808), one granted to Louis Laurent Girault, arriving from England and traveling from Morlaix to Nantes (1811), and another [in Spanish] granted to Auguste Girault, his wife Feliciana, and four children, August, Carlos, Leonid, and Eugenio, to travel to New Orleans on the vessel Pamelia under Captain Smith (October 23, 1835). A certification from the commissioner of the Navy verifies that Augustin Louis Laurent Girault is listed among the passengers of the Dame Ernouf, which sailed from Nantes for Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, on Feb. 6, 1808 (1811). Also included is a dispensation from service in the French Imperial Army granted to Augustin Girault because of myopia (1808) and a document certifying that Augustin Girault, music professor residing in Nantes, is myopic and has been the sole support of his mother for three years (1813).

Correspondence includes two letters from Dulisse Aleye, one concerning the collection of money from Pitre Chanceaulme (1812), and another recalling two years spent with Girault in prison (1812). Other correspondence includes a letter from Rigaud in New Orleans to Girault giving advice (1837), and a letter to Girault in New Orleans from his brother in Nantes providing family news, discussing opera, plays, and vaudeville, and the growth of Nantes (1845).

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