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Joseph Nancrède fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1790-1841.

Reference:

R6314-0-5-E, MG24-K56

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

616705

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Joseph Nancrède fonds
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Fonds includes:

78 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1790-1841.

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Place of creation:

France

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

2 cm of textual records (203 p.).

Language of material:

French

Added language of material:

French, English

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The fonds consists of 78 documents, mainly correspondence including some receipts and texts, relating to the Joseph Nancrède' activities as professor, translator and publisher. The correspondents are : Edmond-Charles Genêt, Moreau de St-Méry, Timothy Pickering, Théodore Charles Mozard, Gustave de Montjoie, monsieur de Liancourt, Aaron Burr, John Jay, Manning & Loring, Dr. Kollack, Dudley Walker, William Cobbett, Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, John Dexey, l'abbé Philippe-Jean-Louis Desjardins, général Henri Jomini, William Lee, David Barlow, Henry Baldwin (to William McCorkle), D.C. Swan, Laubier, Seth Hunt, Thomas Barlow, Henry Baldwin, général Bernard, Thomas Jefferson (to Mathew Carey), Victor-Joseph-Étienne Jouy, Vassal et Cie, de Lesseps, Joseph Bonaparte, Stanislas Girardin, Framery, Alavoine (son), Laetitia Barrett, Horatio Barker, général Lafayette, Maurice Duval, Antoine Jay, Musée d'histoire naturelle de Paris (to James Ronaldson).

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Nancrede, Joseph, 1761-1841

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Nancrede, Joseph, 1761-1841 : Joseph Nancrède was born in Paris on 16 March 1761. He went to United States around 1781 during the Independence War with the army of Count Rochambeau. It is during that period that he seems to have changed his Christian name Paul-Joseph Guérard de Nancrède for Joseph Nancrède. He returned to France in March 1783. On 21 October 1785, he boarded the "Diligence of Cadix" for Philadelphia. In 1787, he is hired as professor of French at Harward University, Massachusetts. In 1789, he founded the "Courrier de Boston". He also became publisher and translator and made known the French Revolution and the classical French writers to American by publishing, among other publications, "L'Abeille françoise". He was also a publisher and translator in Philadelphia from 1812. Nancrède is part of "the network of francophone printers who distinguished themselves in North America at the end of the eighteenth century." (Bernard Andrès, "Cahier des Dix", vol. 55)

Joseph Nancrède returned to Paris in 1825 where he died in 1841. At the end of his life he befriended Louis-Joseph Papineau to whom he bequeathed his books and papers.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of a brief summary of the letters and other documents in chronological order. MSS0997 (90: Open)
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000969.pdf

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Custodial history:

These documents were acquired in 1972 with Louis-Joseph Papineau 's papers (MG24-B2) to whom Joseph Nancrède bequeathed his documents. A fonds in the name of Joseph Nancrède was created independently of the Papineau family fonds.

Language note:

42 documents are in French and 36 documents in English.

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG24-K56
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 K 56] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 997] 92

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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