Ardèche Ursulines d'Annonay. Approximately 80... Lot 71

Ardèche Ursulines d'Annonay. Approximately 80 documents from the early 19th century. Set of documents relating to the Ursulines of Annonay, a certain number of which concern Marguerite-Thérèse Montgolfier (1743-1811), sister of the two aeronauts, who was an Ursuline sister of Boulieu under the name of Saint Euphrasia: 6 letters from Delpuech (crossed out headings of the prefect of Ardèche) to sister Montgolfier, some with a draft reply (year 13 - year 14, on the payment of her pension), certificate from the hand of sister Montgolfier for a domain which she received "from paternal and fraternal succession", Copy at the beginning of the 19th century of the 1688 title of the water intake of the Colignon estate in Boucieu addressed to "Madame Montgolfier, a nun in the boarding house of Ste Marie d'Annonay", several documents concerning the Boucieu estate including a "figurative plan and levelling operations" with drawing and another large handwritten plan of Boucieu, etc. There are also papers concerning Sister Catherine Saint-Pierre Duret [the mother of the Montgolfier siblings was also called Anne-Catherine Duret]: certificate of life, sale of the estate of Boucieu commune of Annonay, documents concerning the estate of Sister Catherine Duret, sales of land. Other documents concerning Sophie Desrieu known as Sister Saint-Cécile, Ursuline nun of Annonay, and Marguerite Sophie Clozel : sales of vines and land, exchanges, sale to the ladies of Sainte-Marie d'Annonay, exchanges with the community of Ursuline nuns of Annonay, state of the funds of the Rignol estate, division signed by several members of the Giscard family, receipts and memoirs, etc.