FLORIAN - The Most Traveled Man on Earth

Her eldest daughter 103 married Monsieur Q. Zeltner and is the mother of an only son,
already sixteen or seventeen years old. <strong>The</strong> second daughter has not yet married.
Her son Armand Duault is Consul at Ancone on the Adriatic where he lives with his wife
and three daughters.
Madame Boulan, having lost her two children and her fortune (as have the Duaults) has
come for refuge to St. Malo, where she lives with my mother, my sister [Elvire Thierry],
her husband (Monsieur [Bernard] Duhaut-Cilley) and three children, two of whom are
daughters and one son.
In the same house, but keeping a home apart, live Monsieur Defougaray, myself, my
wife, my two daughters and my one little boy. My brother [Hippolytte Thierry] is a
Lieutenant on a Ship and is now at sea.
Poor Madame Dupuy left her husband. Her oldest son and her daughter – who is not
married and probably never will be – live with her at St. Malo. Her second daughter is
living near St. Brier where she has married a Monsieur [Auguste Jacques Marie] Ruellan
and already has two daughters and two sons. <strong>The</strong> Dupuy family are the only ones who
have any considerable fortune.
My mother is still living in moderate comfort. Madame Boulan and Madame Duault are
entirely reunited, the first by the follies of her son, and the second by abuse of
confidence.
So you see, my Cousin, the details are more extended than satisfactory, and do not
correspond unfortunately with those which you gave me on your side. Please say to
Madame Bowers since she is near you, that I have a tender recollection of a
correspondence with her, which for lack of opportunity has been allowed to cease.
I have always contemplated at trip to the United States to renew the acquaintance, and so
that my nieces should at least cease to be nearly strangers. <strong>The</strong> great obstacle to this is
that there are three children who would have to be left behind. Otherwise, I should have
been en route long ere this.
Thanks to the Revolution which did away with my duties as Consul to Egypt, I have no
other occupation than that of rearing my little family and looking after my property,
which has been reduced to a small matter.
Be so good, dear Cousin, as to be interpreter to your sisters, and believe in all the
devotion of your obedient servant and cousin,
Thierry Dufougeray
103 This refers to Eugenie Duault, born 16 May 1799, who married Q. de Zeltner on 7 July 1825. <strong>The</strong> son
referred to in the next sentence is Authur de Zeltner, born about March 1827. <strong>The</strong> “second daughter”
referred to in the next sentence is Inez Duault, who apparently never married.
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