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Berbiguières: Familles de Caumont, de Coustin de Caumont, Souc de Plancher, de Chevigné. XIII-XIXème siècles.
Hussey: Une famille irlandaise au -service du roi de France.
Acquired through the Andrew B. Hammond, the Perrette Family, and the Skinner Book Funds.
The Berbiguières collection documents the history of a noble estate from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. The original estate owners were an important Huguenot family, some of whom left France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, while others remained on the land and became increasingly close to the monarchy during the eighteenth century. Thus, it can be used to examine the diversity of Huguenot responses to the revocation-emigration, adaptation-and how these varied responses coexisted within the same family.
The collection of the Irish Hussey family also encourages scholars to look at the existence of migration and the permeability of borders in early modern Europe. The Hussey family is an example of a noble transnational family. Irish loyalists who came to France in the eighteenth century to serve the French king, the Hussey family integrated itself into the French nobility through military service, commercial activities, marriage, and the purchase of lands.
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