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Publicado por 28 November ; Paris, 1822
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
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8vo, 1 pp. A long document, closely written in a clerical hand. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight loss to one corner. Stamped for tax. Signed twice by both parties, and initialled by them on a couple of occasions. Following the defeat of Napoleon, the broken state of the French economy allowed many wealthy Britains to live there. Drummond is described as 'Mr. Jacques Drummond Ecossais Logé ce jour à Paris, Rue St. Honoré No., hôtel Meurice'. The body of the document leases the 'Chateau de Courbeton, Parc, Jardin et Dépendances, Le tout Situé prez Montereau, department de Seine et Marne' for one year. With codicil extending the lease to 1 November 1824. Lachlan Macquarie records in his journal visits to the Drummonds at Courbeton in 1822 and 1823.