PARÉ, Ambroise (1510–1590).

A direct descendant of Ambroise Paré and his second wife, Jacqueline Rousselet, through the Hédelin, Le Charron and de Longueau Saint-Michel families.

Dr Le Paulmier, Ambroise Paré: Based on New Documents Discovered in the National Archives and Family Papers (Paris: Charavay frères, 1885). – Paule Dumaitre, ‘The rediscovered descendants of Ambroise Paré. His family of yesterday, his family of today’, Histoire des sciences médicales, vol. XXXIII, no. 3, 1999.

A valuable family collection containing two extremely rare documents relating to Ambroise Paré, one of which is annotated by him and is the only known autograph by the great surgeon.

All these documents relating to Ambroise Paré and his descendants, the Le Charrons, have been mounted on tabs without regard to chronology; we indicate their position in the volume in brackets.

Marriage contract of Ambroise PARÉ with Jeanne MAZELIN, 30 June 1541, copy signed by the notaries Dupré and Dorleans (parchment in-plano, small hole), with a handwritten note by Ambroise Paré on the reverse (somewhat faded): ‘treatise on my first marriage’ (‘first’ was added after his remarriage). Commenting on this document, Le Paulmier wrote: ‘We know that, with the exception of his signature, no autograph of the great surgeon is known. We have had the rare good fortune to discover a specimen of his handwriting” (p. 24); and “This is the only autograph of the great surgeon that we know of” (p. 146). Ambroise Paré is referred to as “master barber-surgeon in this city of Paris”. Jeanne Mazelin brings as her dowry ‘the sum of six hundred livres tournois together with the bridal garments’, whilst Paré endows his future wife with the sum of 200 livres. ‘And the said Jeanne Mazelin shall have and take, by right of priority and before any inventory is made or division taken, all the garments, rings and jewels that she shall have in her possession on the day of the death of the said Ambroise Paré, her future husband; likewise, the said Ambroise Paré shall have and take by right of priority all his garments, rings and surgical instruments that he shall have on the day of the death of the said Jeanne Mazelin”… (78)

Contract of the second marriage of Ambroise PARÉ to Jacqueline ROUSSELET, 31 December 1573, copy signed three times by the notaries Le Camus and Herbin (5 folios of parchment, folio size). Jacqueline’s dowry is 5,000 livres tournois, with Paré granting her a dower of 500 livres in annual rent, allowing his widow to enjoy the house at La Vache for the rest of her life, etc. (79)

Painted coat of arms of the LE CHARRON family: Azure, a chevron accompanied in chief by two stars, and in base by a wheel, all Or, with the motto ‘Lors suffira’. (1)

2 extracts signed by Du Puy regarding the appointment of Jean Le Charron to the office of President and Councillor at the Court of Aids in Paris in 1554 and 1556. (61-62)

Letters patent from Charles IX appointing Jean Le Compte to the office of Secretary to the King, 1558 (parchment in-plano). (66)

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS. L.S., 9 July 1571, to M. de Voisinlieu, regarding payment for garrisons (1 p. folio, countersigned by Pinart). (67)

CHARLES IX. L.S., 17 July 1571, to M. de Voisinlieu, regarding payment for border garrisons (1 folio page, countersigned by Pinart). (68)

Letter from Aubin BOURGTHEROULDE to the bailiff of Nemours. (69)

Extract from the registers of the Paris Town Hall registry concerning the 1572 election of President Le Charron as Provost of the Merchants, 18th-century copy with revenue stamp. (63)

Royal letters from Henry IV, January 1583, authorising Pierre Le Charron to dispose of his office as Treasurer of the Extraordinary War Fund (in-plano parchment, remnants of seal attached). (3)

HENRY IV. P.S., 14 May 1595, letter of appointment to Julle Boullongne (oblong parchment in-4). (81)

HENRY IV. L.S. with autograph greeting, countersigned by Ruzé, Paris 13 June 1601, to the Pope, in favour of Estienne Bollogne for the office of provost of the Church of Saint-Sauveur in Aix-en-Provence (paper, in-plano). (82)

Manuscript presenting evidence of the nobility of the Bollogne family, originally from Barcelona, Barcelona 1609–1611 (45 ff. folio, paper). (80)

Letter patent appointing Claude Le Charron as Master of Requests, 18 December 1623, in the name of Louis XIII (parchment in-plano, brown wax seal), with attached document. (15-16)

3 receipts on parchment (1623). (12–14)

LOUIS XIII. P.S. (secretary), letter of appointment as Councillor of State, 2 January 1624 (oblong in-4 parchment). (22)

Letter of appointment to the office of Attorney General to the Queen for Claude Le Charron, in the name of Anne of Austria, 27 December 1632 (in-plano parchment). Plus 5 other documents on parchment concerning him (fair condition). (17-21)

P.S. by Anne de LORRAINE, Duchess of Genevois, 14 October 1635, donation of the seigneurial rights of Palley to Claude Le Charron. (58)

LOUIS XIII. P.S. (secretary) and by Guénégaud, 30 March 1643, certificate of appointment as Councillor of State and of Finance for Claude Le Charron (parchment in-plano). (23)

Letter from Marshal de PLESSIS-PRASLIN to Le Charron, Turin, 20 December 1647. (24)

Permission to have Mass said (1648, parchment). (25)

ANNE OF AUSTRIA. P.S., 5 March 1655, patent appointing Angélique Le Charron as lady-in-waiting (oblong folio parchment); plus a receipt. (27-28)

Papal bull from Clement X for the marriage of François Le Charron, 1672 (parchment, with his lead seal). (26)

Engraving by Stefano della Bella featuring the Le Charron coat of arms and decorative elements. (5)

Autograph letter from E. Le Charron to his cousin M. de Bardosse. (4)

P.S. by François Le Charron, 6 August 16[..], trimmed edge. (6)

Letter patent in favour of Marguerite Le Cirier, widow of the late Count, Lord of Hermay, 3 July 1642 (oblong parchment in-4, large brown wax seal on a cord). (70)

Extract from the registers of the Council of State concerning Marguerite Le Cirier, widow of His Lordship the Count, Lord of Hermay, Lorrez, etc., 30 July 1642 (oblong folio parchment with seal). (72)

Painted coat of arms (pen and watercolour) of the Count of Lorrez and Les Perthuis. (71)

LOUIS XIV. P.S. (secretary) and by Le Tellier, 20 January 1651, leave granted to the S. de Saint-Ange. (7)

LOUIS XIV. L.S. (secretary) to Captain de Charron, Vincennes, 20 July 1660. (29)

LOUIS XIV. P.S. (secretary) and via Le Tellier, St Germain-en-Laye, 30 January 1666, to Saint-Ange, maître d’hôtel to the late Queen Mother, instructing him to have all the gold and silver tableware from the late Queen’s household delivered to the S. de Bartillat. (8)

Letter from the Marquis de Saint-Ange to the King. (9)

Papal bull from Clement X for the marriage of Claude Le Charron, 1673 (parchment, with its lead seal); plus an ecclesiastical document in Latin. (30–31)

Inspection of the Beauvais squadron (November 1674); certificate signed by Charles Colbert (Soissons, Nov. 1674); certificate of service signed by the Field Marshal de Parisy-Fontainne in favour of Claude Le Charron (November 1674); certificate signed by Marshal de Créquy (Metz, Nov. 1674). (32–35)

P.S. from Marshal de VILLEROY concerning Sieur d’Hermay and the suppression of duels, 19 November 1679. (73)

LOUIS XIV. L.S. (secretary) and Le Tellier, Versailles 18 July 1691, appointment of Lieutenant S. Charon. (38)

LOUIS XIV. L.S. (secretary) and Le Tellier, Versailles, 5 August 1692, commission as captain for Charon in the Royal Naval Infantry Regiment (parchment in-plano). (39)

P.S. by the Count of PONTCHARTRAIN, 20 May 1693, certificate of service for S. de Lorré, ensign. (74)

P.S. by the Archbishop of Sens, Hardouin de la Rochette, 10 June 1699, regarding the marriage of Claude Le Charron. (40)

2 P.S. by Jean PHELYPEAUX, 17 August 1700, confirming the nobility of Marguerite Du Puy, widow of François Le Comte, Lord of Hermay, and her son François Le Comte (2 ff. each, parchment and paper). (76-77)

Petition from Marie-Angélique Moreau, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Le Charron, to the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, requesting the installation of a bench for her family in the choir of the church at Remauville; annotated ‘bon’ by the Duchess and endorsed by Voille de la Garde (1709). (36)

Judgment of 21 June 1714 confirming the ancient nobility of the Le Charron family (8 ff. parchment). (2)

Painted coat of arms of the Basanniers (on parchment). (65)

2 petitions from the Marquise de Saint-Ange, widow, to HRH the Duke of Orléans, Regent. (10–11)

P.A.S. by Admiral de COETLOGON, 13 August 1722, certificate of service for the S. de Lorré. (75)

Letter signed by LE BLANC, 1 January 1727, to the S. du Boschet, appointing Le Charron to the Cadet Company at Metz. (43)

Certificate signed by the Duke of NEVERS, 2 January 1727, for Le Charron, page to the Queen of Spain, with wax seal. (42)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Bauyn, 18 March 1729, commission as cornet (oblong folio vellum). (45)

Certificate by the Commissioner of War Sainte-Marre for S. de Charon, cornet in the Cossé Cavalry Regiment, Camp de la Sambre, 26 July 1730 (44)

Manuscript of the ‘État des tiltres’ submitted to d’Hozier for the evidence of Marie-Madeleine-Charlotte Le Charron, 10 January 1731. (37)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Bauyn, 1 March 1732, commission of lieutenant (oblong folio vellum). (47)

P.S. by Count Alexis de CHASTILLON, Boutanelle camp, 5 July 1734. (46)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Bauyn, 12 March 1736, order to report to the Royal Piedmont Cavalry Regiment. (48)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Bauyn, 22 April 1739, commission as captain (in-plano vellum). (49)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Voyer d’Argenson, 24 June 1743, commission as major (oblong vellum in-fol.). (50)

L.S. by the Count d’ARGENSON, 17 March 1748, to Major Le Charron, to whom the King granted a pension of 600 livres in the Order of St Louis (1 p. in-4); and an attachment from 1747 in the name of the Count d’Évreux. (51-52)

P.S. by Claude Charles Le Charron, appointing Jean Roulx as provost and judge at Paley, Château de Paley, 25 April 1747 (with red wax seal bearing the coat of arms). (41)

LOUIS XV. P.S. (secretary) and Voyer d’Argenson, 16 December 1743, sending Brigadier Desmazy to Le Charron. (54)

P.S. by the Marquis de BÉTHUNE, 12 July 1751, regarding the induction of Major Le Charron into the Royal Piedmont Cavalry Regiment. (53)

Letter from the Count of COSSÉ-BRISSAC, 6 May 1754. (55)

Royal letters, 13 March 1777 (folio-sized parchment), concerning the estate of Chaufour in Gâtinais. (56)

LOUIS XVI. L.S. (secretary) and Montbarey, 24 August 1780, appointing Claude-Thimoléon Le Charron as second lieutenant, countersigned and signed by the Prince of Condé (poor condition). (57)

Letter from Mme Le Bascle d’Herbauville, 1 February 1782, regarding the family coat of arms. (59)

Letter from Brother Lepayen, a Franciscan friar serving at Saint-Ange. (60)

A printed poster of the Law relating to the National Guard, 18 August 1791, has been added; and a passport (24 December 1852) for Émile de Montjou; etc.