Marie Grasset Latour

Other Events:

• Baptism: 28 Oct 1764, Bergerac, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France

Notes:

Baptism:
Les enfants de Pierre GRASSET LATOUR et de Marie BONTEMPS nés à BERGERAC entre 1760 et 1769

Marie née en 1764

Marie, fille de Pierre GRASSET et de Marie BONTEMPS, née le 26 octobre et baptisée le 28 octobre 1764 dans la paroisse St Jacques de Bergerac.

Parrain : Jacques BRETHOU
Marraine : Marie GRASSET

N. B : cet acte précise encore "fille de Pierre Grasset et de Marie Bontemps dont le mariage n'a pas été fait en présence de l'église".
[N. B: This record also clearly states "daughter of Marie and Pierre Grasset Bontemps whose marriage has not been done in the presence of the church."]

Notes:

M. Duhamel research shows that Pierre Grasset LaTour was a maitre cordier(master ropemaker). The birth record of his son Jacques (1760) listes :le pretendu mariage a ete fait au Desert" indication that he was a protestant. (LaTour Genealogical Collection, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kingharry&id=I00076&style=TABLE).

The birth record of son Jacques (1760) lists 'le prétendu mariage a été fait au Désert' indication that he was protestant. Birth record of daughter Marie (1764) states 'fille de Pierre Grasset et de Marie Bontemps dont le mariage n'a pas été fait en presence de l'église.'

Pierre married Marie Bontemps on 21 Sep 1756 in Bergerac, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. Marie (daughter of Jacques Bontemps and Marie Grandet) was born about 1730 in France; died after 1793 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Contract de marriage de Pierre GRASSET et de Marie BONTEMPS, passé le 21 septembre 1756 devant Me BIOU

Le 21 september 1756, dans la paroisse de St Christophe, juridiction de MONBAZILLAC, sont présents dans la maison des héritiers du feu Jacques BONTEMPS :

Pierre GRASSET, marchand cordier, fils de Pierre GRASSET, aussi marchand cordier et de Isabeau CAUDOU, conjoints, habitants de Bergerac.

Le futur est aussi assisté de ses trois soeurs, toutes prénomées Marie, de son oncle Jean HEBRARD maître tailleur et de son cousin, Jean HEBRARD.

et Marie BONTEMPS, fille seconde de feu Jacques BONTEMPS et de défunte Marie GRANDET, est assistée de ses deux soeurs, Marie, de son beau-frère, Jean EYMERIC, médecin à boeufs, époux de Marie BONTEMPS, sa soeur aînée, de Pierre GRANDET, laboureur, son oncle maternel, de Pierre BONTEMPS, jeune bourgeois de Bergerac, son cousin et de Marguerite BONTEMPS, sa cousine, fille du sieur Pierre.

Les jeunes époux vivront chez les GRASSET, parents de Pierre. Ils seront nourris et logés, ainsi que leurs enfants.
En échange, les jeunes mariés rapporteront "leurs revenus, travaux et industrie".

Apport du futur : ses parents lui consitituent une somme de 300 livres en avancement d'hoirie (= de succession), plus un ameublement.

Ils délaissent aussi à leur fils la jouissance d'une maison située à Bergerac "joignant le moulin des Révérends Pères Cordeliers".
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Summary of Marriage Contract between Pierre GRASSET and Marie BONTEMPS, agreed to on September 21, 1756 before Maître Biou [public notary]

On September 21, 1756, in the parish of St. Christopher, jurisdiction of MONBAZILLAC, are present in the house of the heirs of the late Jacques BONTEMP:

Pierre Grasset, ropemaker merchant, son of Pierre Grasset, also a ropemaker merchant, and his spouse Isabeau CAUDOU, habitants of Bergerac.

The future husband is also accompanied by his three sisters, all first-named Marie, his uncle Jean HEBRARD master tailor and his cousin, Jean HEBRARD.

and Marie BONTEMPS, second daughter of the late Jacques BONTEMPS and the late Marie GRANDET, is accompanied by her two sisters, Marie; her brother-in-law, John EYMERIC, oxen veterinarian, husband of Marie BONTEMPS, her older sister; Pierre GRANDET, laborer; her maternal uncle; Pierre BONTEMPS, young bourgeois from Bergerac, her cousin; and Marguerite BONTEMPS, her cousin, daughter of squire Pierre.

The young couple will live with the Grassets, Pierre's parents. They will be housed and fed, as well as will be their children.

In return, the newlyweds will provide "their income, work and industry".

Contribution the the groom-to-be: his parents provide him a sum of 300 livres (pounds) in anticipated inheritance, plus furnishings.

They also provide their son the enjoyment of a house in Bergerac "joining the mill of the Reverend Fathers Cordeliers."

Other Events:

• Residence: 1752, Bergerac, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France

Notes:

The information about Pierre Grasset/Isabeau Cordeau family comes from the marriage contract between their son Pierre Grasset Latour and Marie Bontemps agreed upon at Bergerac in 1756.

In 1998, Professional genealogist Martine Duhamel found no further birth or marriage information for the Pierre Grasset/Isabeau Caudou family. This supports the likely supposition that they were Protestants for whom there would be no documentation in the Catholic Church records of the period.

The Edict of Nantes, issued by Henri IV in 1598 had granted religious freedom in France. However, in 1685 his grandson Louis XIV repealed this freedom with the Edict of Fontainebleau. This revocation of the Edict of Nantes outlawed what Louis called the "Religion Prétendument Réformée" (the Allegedly Reformed Religion) and ordered the destruction of Protestant places of worship. A subsequent series of royal declarations issued between 1698 and 1715 created a web of particularly repressive statutes against Protestants. These laws were affirmed by Louis IV in a declaration given at Versailles on 14 May 1724, in which the king forbade all his subjets:

"[D]e faire aucun exercice de religion autre que de ladite Religion catholique et de s'assembler pour cet effet en aucun lieu et sous quelque prétexte que ce puisse être, à peine contre les hommes des galères perpétuelles ; et contre les femmes d'être rasées et enfermées pour toujours dans les lieux que nos juges estimeront à propos, avec confiscation des biens des uns et des autres, même à peine de mort contre ceux qui se seront assemblez en armes. [to exercise any religion other than the Catholic religion and to not assemble for this purpose in any place and under whatever pretext, the penalty being for men to the galleys for life, and for women to be shorn and locked forever in places that judges deem fit, with confiscation of their property, even the death penalty against those who assemble in arms.]"

Article 2 punished preachers with the death penalty, forbade anyone from giving them sanctuary; it was obligatory to denounce them.

Article 3 required the parents to have their children baptized within 24 hours of birth by the local priest, and articles 4 to 7 mandated raising the children as Catholics.

Articles 15 to 17 reaffirmed the formalities prescribed by the Catholic Church for marriage and marriage banns and the obligation to be married by the parish priest.

In this milieu, Protestants did not have the opportunity to worship freely, have marital status (leading to their children being potentially labeled as "bâtards"), or even hold certain occupations such as physician, printer or bookseller where licensing depended on a certificate of Catholicity.

In parts of the Aquitaine region, Catholics accounted for only about one-thirtieth of population in 1685. Even after 85 years of conversion efforts, Catholics would number no more than half the population. Despite their numbers, Protestants generally abandoned themselves to a fatalistic passivity toward Catholicism; there was no armed revolt as happened elsewhere in France. However, in 1742 a first assembly of the Protestant faithful “au desert” took place in the Bergerac area.

The notion of "le culte au desert," worship in the wilderness, had Biblical underpinnings in Hosea 2:16-17, "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably to her". Protestant assemblies in the countryside of up to 6,000 participants show an organized community and a renewal of faith. Even so, baptisms and marriages performed by itinerant preachers remained unrecognized by the State and patently illegal.

Thus, as Protestants in 18th century France, the Grasset Latour family likely faced many troubles for the practice of their faith.

Residence:
Requête de noble Pierre de Chièze contre les dégradations faites chez lui par Pierre Grasset dit Latour, maître cordier de la ville de Bergerac, en 1752. [Civil claim by the noble Pierre de Chièze against damage done on his property by Pierre Grasset dit Latour, master ropemaker of the town of Bergerac in 1752].

Noble Pierre de CHIEZE, Seigneur de la forge du Pont Saint Mamet dit qu'à son insu et durant son absence Pierre GRASSET dit LATOUR, maître cordier de la présente ville de Bergerac "aurait fait plusieurs entreprises, dégradations et usurpations préjudiciables au suppliant sur une maison et batiments à lui appartenant situés dans la présente ville, faubourg Malburguet".

Le suppliant a déjà demandé au maître cordier le 5ème courant "en sommation de rétablir et de remettre toutes choses en même état qu'elles étaient avant", mais rien n'ayant été fait, il supplie le Sénéchal du Périgord ou son lieutenant général de venir sur les lieux, avec un greffier pour constater les dégâts et dresser un procès-verbal.

N.B : Pierre GRASSET dit LATOUR, maître cordier à Bergerac en 1752, semble bien être votre ancêtre.
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Noble Pierre de Chièze, Lord of the forge of Pont Saint-Mamet says that without his knowledge and during his absence Pierre Grasset dit Latour, master ropemaker of this town of Bergerac "had done many enterprises, damage and usurpation detrimental to the supplicant on a house and buildings belonging to him situated in this city, in the faubourg of Malburguet".

The supplicant has already asked the master ropemaker on the 5th "in summation to restore and put back in place all things in the same state they were before", but nothing has been done. He begs the Seneschal of Perigord or his lieutenant general come to these places, with a clerk to see the damage and prepare a report.

N.B.: Pierre Grasset dit Latour, master ropemaker in Bergerac in 1752, seems to be your ancestor.

Pierre married Isabeau Caudou. Isabeau died after 12 Sep 1756 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
The original text states Isabeau, not Isabelle.

Some sources incorrectly cite the wife of Pierre Grasset as being "Isabelle dit Deslauriers Cordeau" and injudiciously include her among the children of the early Québeçoise family of Jacques Cordeau and Maguerite Toupin.

Credible documenation indicates that Cordeau-Toupin family had 5 children: Jacques, Marguerite, Marie dite Marie-Madeleine, Jean-François, and Antoine. (See Jetté: Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec, p. 270)

"Isabeau Caudou" was name of the wife of Pierre Grasset of Bergerac.

Died:
Isabeau was present at the signing of the marriage contract between her son Pierre and Maire Bontemps on 21 Sep 1756.

Notes:

Died:
Jacques died before the signing of the marriage contract between his daughter Maire and Pierre Grasset on 21 Sep 1756.

Jacques married Marie Grandet. Marie died before 21 Sep 1756 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Marie died before the signing of the marriage contract between her daughter Maire and Pierre Grasset on 21 Sep 1756.