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Subject(s)

• DuBignon, Christophe Poulain 1739-1825 [Browse]
• Plantation owners—Georgia—Jekyll Island—Biography [Browse]
• Merchants—Georgia—Jekyll Island—Biography [Browse]
• Merchants—France—Biography [Browse]
• Nobility—France—Biography [Browse]
• Seafaring life—History—18th century [Browse]
• Commerce—History—18th century [Browse]
• Jekyll Island (Ga.)—Social life and customs—18th century [Browse]
• Jekyll Island (Ga.)—Social conditions—18th century [Browse]
• Jekyll Island (Ga.)—Biography [Browse]

Summary note

• "This biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Breton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer.
• After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-297) and index.

ISBN

0820323608 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001008270

OCLC

48767566

RCP

C - S

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