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Country
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FR
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Name of institution (English)
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Gironde Departmental Archives
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Language of name of institution
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fra
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Contact information: postal address
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72 cours Balguerie-Stuttenberg, 33300 Bordeaux
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Contact information: phone number
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0033 (0)556996600
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Reference number
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C 1086-1093, 3662
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Jews
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Title (official language of the state)
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Juifs
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Intendance de Bordeaux
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Date(s)
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1656/1786
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Language(s)
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fra
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Extent
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9 archival units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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The Juifs (Jews) collection comprises documentation related to the administration of the Jewish communities in Bordeaux. It is part of the Intendance de Bordeaux (Intendance of Bordeaux) fonds, and it mostly includes correspondence with the Bordeaux city government and regional authorities about issues related to the Jewish community. It is divided into nine archival units, each one containing a variable number of documents:
C 1086: Correspondence from De Courson and Boucher, intendants of Bordeaux, with ministers on converted Jews, 1714-1731: it includes references to several Sephardic women, such as Suzanne Henriquez and Esther Gradis, and some Sephardic families, including the Delcampos.
C 1087: Correspondence from Boucher and De Tourny, intendants of Bordeaux, with ministers, 1736-1758: it includes documents regarding the Pereira and Mendes families, both of Sephardic origin.
C 1088: Correspondence from De Tourny, Boucher, Boutin and De Fargès, intendants of Bordeaux, to ministers, the counts of Muy, Saint-Florentin and Boullongue, and the bishops of Orleáns and Amelot, 1740-1772: it includes letters regarding François Tellès Dacosta.
C 1089: Correspondence from De Labourdonnaye, De Courson, Boucher and De Tourny, intendants of Bordeaux, to several ministers, 1656-1763: it contains information about the settlement of Portuguese Jews in Bordeaux, their families, and various information on their living in the city. It also includes information about privileges and taxes imposed on wine and other goods.
C 1090: Correspondence from Boucher, De Tourny, and Boutin, intendants of Bordeaux, to several ministers, 1731-1768: some letters refer to the community's rules regarding poor relief, their worship and religion, and the synagogue, among other issues. It includes references to Izaac Pescote, Jacob Mendès, Daniel Tellès Dacosta, Benjamin Rodrigue Sarceda, Esther Vas Dolivera, Rachel Raphaël, Abigail de Castre, Antoine Lopès Salcedo, Abraham Gommés Silva, Moïse Francia, Jacob Pereyra, Rachel Carvalho, Abraham Fernande Dias, Sara Gradis, among others.
C 1091: Correspondence from Boucher, intendant of Bordeaux, to several ministers about the Avignon Jews established in Bordeaux, 1722-40.
C 1092: Correspondence from Bourcher and De Tourny, intendants of Bordeaux, to several ministers, 1740-1753: it contains information on Jews from Avignon settled in Bordeaux and references to the Mendès family.
C 1093: Correspondence from De Tourny and Fargès, intendants of Bordeaux, to several ministers, 1754-78: it includes references to Hana de Castro, Ester Pinto, Abraham Dacosta, Jacob Nunez, Sara Olivera, and Daniel David, among others.
C 3662: Documentation regarding Portuguese and Avignon Jews in Bordeaux, 1744-86: it includes a request presented by Avignon Jews to obtain the same privileges as the Jews of Portuguese origin. It also contains the request addressed to the intendant Dupré Saint-Maur by the administrators of the "confrérie des pauvres malades" (brotherhood of the poor and sick) of the Portuguese Jewish nation established in Saint-Esprit de Bayonne, about certain disputes on the testament of a deceased member of the community. This unit also contains references to the Jewish communities of Alsace and Dupré Saint-Maur that invoked the privileges and rights granted to the Jews in Bordeaux in order to request the improvement of their civil status.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The institution of the intendants was created by the French monarchy as a tool to control provinces and local governments. They were first appointed at the end of the 15th century as commissioners entrusted with temporary and specifically defined missions. In the following decades, the office of the intendant became permanent and was gradually developed and reorganised. Richelieu, in particular, was responsible for giving the intendants broader powers; he also made it mandatory for them to reside in their appointed generalities from 1635, acting as controllers of all provincial bodies and direct administrators. This expansion led to some protests that resulted in the temporary abolition of these officials in 1648 and their re-establishment in 1653-54.
In 1553, there were 20 intendants with different levels of judicial authority and power. The number continued to rise as the office became more consolidated. At the time of the French Revolution, there were 33 intendants. The intendants were abolished by the National Constituent Assembly on December 22, 1789.
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(source: Larousse encyclopedia)
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Access points: persons, families
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Carvalho, Rachel
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Castre, Abigail de
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Castro, Hana de
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Dacosta, Abraham
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David, Daniel
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Delcampos
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Fernandes Dias, Abraham
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Francia, Moïse
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Gomes Silva, Abraham
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Gradis, Esther
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Gradis, Sara
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Henriquez, Suzanne
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Lop de Paz, Catherine
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Lopès Salcedo, Antoine
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Mendes family
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Mendès, Jacob
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Nunez, Jacob
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Olivera, Sara
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Pereyra, Jacob
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Pereira family
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Pescote, Izaac
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Pinto, Ester
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Rodrigues Sarzeda, Benjamin
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Tellès Dacosta, Daniel
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Tellès Dacosta, François
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Vas Dolivera, Esther
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System of arrangement
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The collection is organised by sender and/or subject.
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares 2022
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Bibliography
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Carvalho, Alfredo de. 1936. Os Portugueses Em Bordéus No Século XVII. Figueira da Foz: Tipografia Popular.
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Nahon, Gérard. 1981. Les “Nations” Juives Portugaises Du Sud-Ouest de La France (1684-1791). Documents. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Centro Cultural Português.
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Nahon, Gérard. 2016. “Nefusot Yehuda (Bayonne) et Beraha ve-Shalom (Surinam): Livres et Lecture Au XVIIIème Siècle.” In A Sefardic Pepper-Pot in the Caribbean: History, Language, Literature, and Art, Michael Studemund-Halévy, 362–428. Barcelona: Tirocinio.
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Nahon, Gérard. 2018. “La Jébéra et Les Confréries de La Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne Au XVIIIe Siècle.” In From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times, Federica Francesconi, Stanley Mirvis, and Brian Smollett, 154–84. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004376717/BP000013.xml.
