Saturday 23 April 2011

An Easter Egg Hunt

According to Genealogie.com a Marie Françoise d'Aigueville was born in Saints (Seine et Marne) between 1700 and 1725.  The Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne are available online and yesterday I spent an hour or two fruitlessly poring over the spidery handwriting. It was less an Easter egg hunt and more c'est comme si l'on cherchait aiguille (or an Aigueville) dans une botte de foin.

Anyone wishing to win the Easter prize of a Cadbury's Creme Egg can visit the Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne and subject themselves to this frustrating trial.

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