LIBERTINAGE in the 18th CENTURY. - Lot 236

LIBERTINAGE in the 18th CENTURY. Simple postmark from Maine et Loire, whose interest is outweighed by the letter's content - A short history of society and human justice. Long letter - 3 pages - from "Monsieur BAUGÉ", Mayor of VERNOIL, canton of Longué, to "Monsieur le Maire de la commune d'ANGERS", Ce 29 thermidor AN 12 (16 aout 1804) - Monsieur, MATHURIN LELOY shoemaker / of this commune / left on the 1st of this month his household, his wife and 3 young children because of Libertinage, having followed to Beaupréau a loose woman / the conabine is now in Nantes and Leloy detained at the house of correction in Angers.../... His wife wishes to return / need to return to her household to provide by her industry an existence / children who have no other resource than the fruit of the labor of the said Leloy.../... it could happen that being enlarged he would continue his route to go find his concubine in Nantes, I think that if the thing could have him to send him back to me from brigade to brigade... etc.... Letter sent back to the mayor on 2 thermidor with a handwritten order from the Beaupréau magistrate ordering the gendarmerie to send LEROY from brigade to brigade to the mayor of Vernoil at his home, Maison de la Rossignolerie". POSTAL MARK "47/SAUMUR" * 11 x 28 mm (Grégoire et Passini n°6). *VERNOIL le FOURRIER then canton of Longué, now and since 1929 arrondissement of SAUMUR, post office attached to the commune in 1804.