Note 63 — Chapter III · THE ODYSSEY OF A BRETON MAGISTRATE
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“To the Administrative Citizens of the Municipality of the 1st arrondissement:—
“9th Messidor, year VI.
“Marie-Achille Cornier, junior, informs you, in compliance with his parents’ wishes, and in pursuance of his own desire of acquiring knowledge which will enable him to be independent of his family (whose property was situated at Saint-Domingo), he left France in the month of March, 1791, and has now gone to Holstein, in order to learn the German language there and to continue his other studies, which he hopes will afford him the opportunity of becoming useful to his family, whose estates in the Colonies had been burnt down almost immediately before his departure.”—National Archives, F⁷ 5621.