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The young Edouard Charles Brown, the future Brown-Séquard, born British in 1817, was brought up by his widowed mother who ran a boarding house for British army officers on leave, and from them he learned English, although simultaneously attending a school where the teaching was entirely French. In 1838, accompanied by his mother, he left Mauritius for France to start his medical studies.
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- 1.
Rouget FA (1930) Brown-Séquard et son oeuvre. Esquisse biographique. General Printing and Stationary Office, Port Louis, Mauritius. p. 23.
- 2.
Brown-Séquard CE (1852) Letter to Lady Blanche. GMcCC, Ms 977/1, 17th Dec.
- 3.
Brown C (1839) Letter to a friend in Mauritius. GMcCC, Ms 972/2, 16th July.
- 4.
Laurent F (1898) Biographie de Brown-Séquard. In: Le Blanc Brown-Séquard. Imprimerie Roussel et Cie. Port Louise, Mauritius, p. 1.
- 5.
Barnwell PJ, Toussaint A (1949) A short history of Mauritius. Longmans Green & Co, London, p. 128.
- 6.
The New York Daily Tribune (1894) Brown-Séquard. The Story of his life. New York, 22nd April.
- 7.
Brown-Séquard (n.d.) Autobiographical letter. GMcCC, Ms 999/7, p. 42.
- 8.
The New York Daily Tribute, op. cit, note 6, above.
- 9.
Laurent, op. cit, note 4, above, p. 2.
- 10.
Ibid.
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French was used for the first time in the Law courts in the 1850.
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Léchelle A (1827) Cours d’exercices anglais, avec des notes grammaticales et une table des verbes irréguliers. Imprimerie Vallet et Cie, Port Louis, Mauritius.
- 13.
Lantour, Mme (1852) Letter to Brown-Séquard. GMcCC, Ms 980/4 & Ms 999/6, pp. 15–16.
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Dupuy E (1894) Notice sur M. Le professeur Brown-Séquard, ancient Président de la Société de biologie. Revue Scient (Paris) 2: 737–743.
- 15.
Brown-Séquard CE (1837) Pages of poetry. GMcCC, Ms 999/82.
- 16.
Brown-Séquard CE (n.d.) Letter to Emma Doherty. GMcCC, Ms 976/162.
- 17.
Brown, op. cit., note 3, above.
- 18.
Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 2, above.
- 19.
Brown-Séquard CE (n.d. probably 1838) Letter to Jules Chauvin. GMcCC, Ms 994/16.
- 20.
Brown-Séquard CE (1838) Letter to Emile Gausseran, GMcCC, Ms 994/16, 17th July.
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When slavery was abolished in 1835, the British government paid £2,100,000 to the Mauritian slave-owners for some 80,000 slaves. The 1821 Census returns record the composition of Charlotte Brown’s household: herself, her son, her slaves, their spouses and their children.
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Celestin, LC. (2014). The Formative Years: 1817–1837. In: Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03020-3_4
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