LIEUT. AUDUBON, REVOLUTIONIST 87 



she should annually pay to him, according to the act of July 

 15, 1788, as given by Domergue, notary at Les Cayes. You 

 will satisfy them with the state of the dwelling house in the 

 plain of Jacob, opposite He a Vaches. 



This was sold by the said act to the said citizeness Fauveau 

 and to her late husband by the said constituents, to whom he 

 will report regularly on the state of affairs, at least twice in 

 the year. . . . 



[Signed at Nantes] J. Royer [one of 

 the undersigned notaries] 



Lieutenant Jean Audubon died at Nantes, 18 when on 

 a visit to that city, on February 19, 1818, at the age of 

 seventy-four, "regretted most deservedly," said his son, 

 "on account of his simplicity, truth, and perfect sense 

 of honesty"; "his manners," he continues, "were those of 

 a most polished gentleman . . . and his natural under- 



chants at Nantes, whose business interests in Santo Domingo were en- 

 trusted to Jean Audubon's hands in 1783 (see Chapter III, p. 38). 



"The following extract from the registry of deaths at Nantes, which 

 is here given in translation, indicates that Lieutenant Audubon passed 

 away suddenly, since his death did not occur in his own apartments (for 

 original see Appendix I, Document No. 19): 



"In the year 1818, on the 19th day of February, at eleven o'clock 

 in the morning, in the presence of the undersigned, deputies and officers 

 of the civil service, delegates of Monsieur the Mayor of Nantes, have 

 appeared the Messrs. Gabriel Loyen du Puigaudeau, gentleman of leisure, 

 son-in-law of the deceased, residing hereafter at Coueron, and Francis 

 Guillet, grocer, living on the Quai de la Fosse, of legal age, who have 

 certified in our presence that on this day, at six o'clock in the morning, 

 Jean Audubon, retired ship-captain, pensioner of the State, born at Les 

 Sables d'Olonne, department of La Vendee, husband of Anne Moinet, 

 died in the house of Mlie. Berthier, in the Chaussee de le Madeleine, No. 

 24, 4th Canton. 



"The witnesses have signed with us the present act, after it was 

 read to them. The deceased was 74 years of age." 



[ Gabriel Loyex du Puigaudeau, 

 "Signed in the register: -j Guillet, and Joseph de la 



[ Tullaye, deputy." 



The Audubons and Du Puigaudeaus were probably buried in one of 

 the large cemeteries at Nantes, since no trace of their graves has been 

 found at Coueron by M. Lavigne. 



