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Academy of Sciences Arts and belles-lettres
Culture · Friday, November 13 · 14:30 · Tours
Place de la Préfecture, 37000 Tours, France
Free
The Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres of Touraine offers a lecture on the following themes: "Fortunes and misfortunes of expatriate Tourangeaux. Tanner apprentices in New France: Etienne Charest, father to son, 1635-1791" by Isabelle Girard, Conservator of Heritage and Conservator of Antiquities and Art Objects of Indre-et-Loire On October 3, 1765, a Canadian couple and their nine children land in the north of France: Etienne, the father, descends from a tanner from Poitou settled a century earlier in New France, and bears his first name, as does every eldest son …
