Note 53 — Chapter III · THE ODYSSEY OF A BRETON MAGISTRATE
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Here is the baptismal certificate of Yves Cormier:—
“Yves-Jean-François-Marie, son of M. Yves-Gilles and Dame Marie-Anne-Françoise Egasse (alias Egace), born yesterday, baptized this day, December 8, 1740, by me the Rector undersigned; and held to the Holy Baptismal Font by M. Jean-François Cormier, Prior-Rector of Bassouge-du-Desert, and by Dame Marie-Anne Lardoul; the father being present, and others undersigned:—
Marie-Anne Lardoul. Perrine Cormier. De Saint Cristan. Mangourit. Cormier, Prior-Rector of la Baionges. Françoise Lecomte—Imbault. Cormier. P. F. d’Oultremer, Rector.”
Municipal Archives of Rennes, series G.G., Parish of Saint-Sauveur, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials for 1740. We owe the greater part of our information relative to the sojourn of Cormier at Rennes to the kindness of our lamented confrère, M. Parfouru, departmental archivist.