Letter 1828 to Count de La Guibourgère / signed Dugué, Victor Hugo family godfather

  

Letter from 1828 to Count DE LA GUIBOURGERE, politician. Folded letter written and signed by Victor HUGO’s godson’s father.

Type of document: postal letter, with postal and handwritten marks on the front.
Number of documents: 1
Number of pages: 4, with 1 written page.
Places: Nogent for (Teillé), Château de la Guibourgère, France.

Date: 9/12/1828, during the reign of King CHARLES X.

Alexandre-Prosper Camus de Pontcarré, Count of La Guibourgère, of Château de la Guibourgère, was a French politician. He belonged to the old Camus de Pontcarré family, several members of which distinguished themselves in the parliaments, the Church, and the armies. His father, Louis Jean Népomucène François Camus de La Guibourgère, was a councillor in the Grand Chamber of the Parliament of Paris.

He died on the guillotine during the Terror, like the other members of parliament who signed the protest against the violations of the laws and the ancient constitution of the kingdom. His grandfather was Jean-Baptiste-Elie de Pontcarré de Viarmes, king’s councillor and intendant of Brittany.

After strong studies in Paris, Alexandre-Prosper became closely associated with Berryer and studied law with him in Berryer père’s office. At the beginning of the Restoration, he settled in Brittany, where his great fortune and the generous use he made of it gave him real influence.

During the Restoration, after 1830, he retained only the office of deputy mayor, to which he added that of district councillor for Ancenis, and then councillor general of Loire-Inférieure for the canton of Riaillé. During the French Revolution of 1848, placed on the conservative union list of the department with his friend M.

He sat on the legitimist right. Re-elected by the same department to the Legislative Assembly, he continued to vote with the pure monarchists, protested against the coup d’état of 2 December 1851, was imprisoned at Mont-Valérien, and, once released, returned to private life.

Ferdinand DUGUE, son of the signer of this letter in 1828; his nephew was Henri-Joseph Dugué de La Fauconnerie, the godson of “Victor HUGO” (or the grandson of his father). This family was part of the life of the illustrious poet, playwright, writer, novelist, and draftsman.

Among the “illustrious” members of the CAMUS DE PONTCARRÉ family during the Louis XIV–Louis XV period:

Nicolas Pierre Camus de Pontcarré was a French magistrate. Nicolas Pierre Camus de Pontcarré was the son of Nicolas Camus, lord of La Grange Dumidiou and Pontcarré, councillor to the king in his Parliament court, and Marguerite Hélène Durand, daughter of a councillor of the Parliament of Paris.

Councillor in the Parliament of Paris and councillor to the king, he became master of requests, then first president of the Parliament of Normandy.

Another illustrious member of the CAMUS DE PONTCARRÉ family:
Jean-Baptiste Élie Camus de Pontcarré, lord of Viarmes, where he died. From 1735 to 1753, then from 1758 to 1764, he was Provost of the Merchants of Paris.

On the back: V/ medium-size black round seal, type (a), dated 12.12.1828. (LAC)
1 written page and signature: Dugué P.
Dimensions: 11.5 x 6.5 cm.

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