Note 44 — Chapter IV · AUDUBON'S BIRTH, NATIONALITY, AND PARENTAGE
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Research at Nantes in 1915 revealed that the baptismal records of the parish of Saint-Similien were wanting for the period from 1792 to 1803, so it is probable that they were destroyed in the Revolution. The municipal archives of Nantes possess a book of baptismal records of the city without distinction of parishes, but this shows the names of neither "Fougère," "Rabin," nor "Audubon," for the year in question.
The Abbè Tardiveau was un prêtre assermenté, or one of those priests who had sworn in 1790 to recognize the civil constitution of the clergy.
For copy of the act of baptism in the French original, see Appendix I, Document No. 3. It is impossible to say whether the heading as given in my copy of this act was in the original or not.