Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803
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Leray de Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien, 1725-1803
Le Ray de Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien, 1725-1803
De Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray, 1725-1803
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found: Schaeper, T.J. France and America in the revolutionary era, 1995:CIP t.p. (life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont) galley (his tombstone in the cemetery near the chateau of Chaumont-sur-Loire, says he was born 1 Sept. 1724; the engraver erred; born in Nantes on 1 Sept. 1725 in the parish of Saint-Nicolas; expired 22 Feb. 1803; virtually all of his contemporaries spelled his name Le Ray de Chaumont, and vast majority of historians have used that form; but, he himself always wrote Leray or Leray de Chaumont; prior to the American Revolution, one of the most powerful and respected businessmen of the Old Regime; aided the American insurgents)
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1994-07-15: new
2000-10-25: revised
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