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** THE 7 YEARS WAR - FONTENILLE CORRESPONDENCE - COVER EX P.O.W. ON PAROLE IN TAVISTOCK; 23 May 1762 EL (full typed transcript) from "Fontenille" while a POW on Parole in "Tavistok" to his uncle in Floransac charged only "10" - possibly posted in Paris. The writer says that letters to him should be addressed to "Mr. Chalier, Correspondent of the French East India Company at Plymouth to be sent on to M. de Fontenille, Captain of the Lorraine Regiment, on Parole at Tavistock." He has not had replies to his letters; he had hoped to be returned to France on May 1, but now thinks it will not be for a few more months. He says that he is still suffering from scurvy, but still almost destitute so that he has suggested to the former Governor of Pondicherry, Georges Duval de Leyrit (1717-64) - also a Prisoner (in Plymouth) - that he should draw a bank bill on his uncle for some money. Rare 7 Years War letter from a POW captured in India. [See MFPWE, p. 50.] Cross Reference: INDIA, FRANCE, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, DEVON
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