BIB_ID
454288
Accession number
MA 14634
Creator
Chastillon, Claude, 1559 or 1560-1616, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 34 x 21 cm
Notes
Watermark: letter "F" in a circle.
Docketed as a copy of a document originally written in 1606.
Pierre de Foix was the son of the architect of the lighthouse, Louis de Foix, who died in 1602. Pierre took over, but, ruined financially, he handed the construction over to someone else (Francois Beuscher); construction of the lighthouse was completed in 1611.
Docketed as a copy of a document originally written in 1606.
Pierre de Foix was the son of the architect of the lighthouse, Louis de Foix, who died in 1602. Pierre took over, but, ruined financially, he handed the construction over to someone else (Francois Beuscher); construction of the lighthouse was completed in 1611.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Written on behalf of Pierre de Foix requesting more money for the construction of the Phare de Cordouan (Cordouan Lighthouse).
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