Amirauté de Guyenne
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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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6 B
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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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Admiralty of Guyenne
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Title (official language of the state)
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Amirauté de Guyenne
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Admiralty of Guyenne
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Date(s)
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1617/1792
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Language(s)
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dut
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eng
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fra
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spa
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Extent
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2088 storage units + supplements
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Amirauté de Guyenne fonds comprises two main groups of documents: administrative and judicial. It includes extensive documentation, such as edicts and trials, correspondence, documentation related to trade and commerce and ships inspections, appointments, procedures, lists of prices, and information on imprisonments, among many others. It also includes passports issued in Bordeaux by the Admiralty of Guyenne, in particular from the 18th century, including many relating to Portuguese Jews (6 B 45-58). These registers contain information on the passengers' origins and destinations, the reason for the trip, and personal details. Digital copies of these records are available online on the archive website. Evelyne Oliel-Grausz (1999, 2015) used this source to trace the circulation of people among Sephardic communities. Therefore, this is one of the most relevant fonds to understand the commercial activity of Sephardic merchants, such as David Gradis.
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Archival history
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After the extinction of the Admiralty of Guyenne in 1790-92, the clerk's office of the Tribunal de Commerce (Commercial Court) collected and preserved its archives, being responsible for them for nearly a century. In 1869, the process of transfer to a new place began. On September 3, 1888, a decree officialised the transfer of the Admiralty of Guyenne archive to the Archives départementales de la Gironde. The collection was definitively deposited there at the end of 1889.
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(source: Archives départementales de la Gironde)
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Administrative / Biographical history
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On July 12, 1490, King Charles VIII extended the jurisdiction of the Amiral de France (Admiral of France) to Bordeaux, creating the seat of the Amirauté de Guyenne (Admiralty of Guyenne). This institution was abolished on August 16, 1790, but it continued its functions until the installation of the Tribunal de Commerce (Commercial Court) in December 1792.
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(source: Archives départementales de la Gironde)
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System of arrangement
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The fonds is divided by document type. Series are organised chronologically.
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Finding aids
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Unpublished finding aids available in the archive:
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"Amirauté de Guyenne. Table alphabétique manuscrite des noms de personnes des registres 6 B 22 à 38 (réceptions des capitaines de navires, chirurgiens, maîtres de barques, etc., 1699-1792)". 1960 (6 B).
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Dainville, Oudot de. 1913. "Amirauté de Guyenne. Répertoire numérique". Bordeaux (6 B).
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2023
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Bibliography
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Menkis, Richard. 1988. “The Gradis Family of Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: A Social and Economic Study.” PhD dissertation, Waltham: Brandeis University.
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Oliel-Grausz, Évelyne. 1999. “Relations et Reseaux Intercommunitaires Dans La Diaspora Sefarade d’occident Au XVIIIe Siècle.” PhD thesis, Paris: Paris I Sorbonne University.
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Oliel-Grausz, Évelyne. 2015. “Communication, marchandise et religion : les négociants séfarades au xviiie siècle.” In Commerce, voyage et expérience religieuse : XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, edited by Gilles Bertrand, Albrecht Burkardt, and Yves Krumenacker, 145–59. Histoire. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.
