Les Seigneurs De Dur Ecu: Du XVIIe au Xxe siècle, le vie quotidienne et l'ascension sociale de gentilshommes campagnards et de notables du Cotentin

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A few days before Christmas, on 21 December 1793, Jean—Antoine de Beauvalet, the Lord of Durécu, was found deadin a bedroom at Valognes where he had sought refuge afterbeing locked up in the Fort de la Hougue by the Revolutionaries.Thus passed away the last male scion of the noble lineof the Beauvalets, ennobled in 1702 by Louis XIV, and who in1686 founded a the little domain at Durécu, which did not atthe time bear that name. For three generations, the Beauvaletsstruggled usi...