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The role of the Château de Chantilly in the Jaunay story 3
Other people associated with the family also held office in the Condé household and these were determined by seeking out various birth, death and marriage certificates:
Louis Brunet: portefaix des Enfants de SAS (baggage carrier [porter] of the children of His Serene Highness)
Jean Louis Philogène Brunet [son of above]: valet de Chambre [1791] (bedroom footman) concierge général de bâtiment [1824] (caretaker general of the building)
Joseph Levavasseur [Jean Louis Philogène Brunet's father-in-law]: première piqueur (first groomsman)
Jean Travers [Godfather to Jean Louis Philogène Brunet]: chef d'office (office manager)
Joseph Cecile [Father of the godmother, Louise Charlotte Geneviéve Philogène Cecile, to Jean Louis Philogène Brunet]: controleur de la Bouche (kitchens manager)
It is unfortunate that the actual job specifications for some of these people are not all that clear. In my own family it has been a tradition that Jean Baptiste Jaunay was a soldier. Clearly the term officier can cover that role but in fact it usually means an official of some sort and usually has some qualification such as officier de police. Nevertheless the members of the family obviously lived or at least worked within the grand complex.
PHOTO: The Salon des Singes.
An inspection of the châteaux furnishings and works of art reveal many items that were no doubt admired by my ancestors when they were new acquisitions. Did they ever envisage what great treasures they would become? In 1774 a mineralogical showcase was given to the Prince de Condé by King Gustav III of Sweden. This amazing cabinet is now located in the antechambre of the Petit Château. The walls are adorned with many priceless works of art but the most interesting to me were to be found in the Gallerie des Actions de M. Le Prince. These paintings by Sauveur Lecomte from 1686 to 1692 and commemorate the military victories of the Grande Condé. Surely my forefathers gazed upon them too. I wonder how they reacted? Did any Jaunay or Brunet play a role in these actions?
The extensive library retains household records which are all indexed. A computer print-out reveals many items of correspondence [Institut de France - Musée Condé ref MC/B Lettre] between the Condé household and a Brunet or Jaunay ranging from 20 Nov 1679 to 21 Mar 1894 with the vast majority occurring during the period of the French Revolution and the years immediately following.
The library is only available to accredited professional researchers and is unable to undertake any significant research. Inquirers need to speak or write in French as the staff have no English. A strict rule prevails whereby no material of any age is photocopied and clients have to organise for documents to be photographed. Anyone with an ancestor of any rank who sided with the royalists in the French Revolution should turn at some stage in their research to this library and its records. Unfortunately, like all comparable records of the day, nothing exists in the record about individuals who did not aspire to any rank in society or the military!
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