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Théodore Godefroy, a historiographer and member of the French diplomatic team that negotiated the Treaty of Westphalia, died in Münster in 1649, away from his family and alone, except for his amanuensis, Nicolas Doulceur, who accompanied Théodore during his six-year mission to Münster.1 Doulceur probably wrote to Théodore’s eldest son, Denys II, to inform him that his father had died. It then fell to Doulceur to pack up Théodore’s belongings. Since shipping was expensive, Doulceur made a list of Théodore’s library, and Denys marked ‘ship’ or ‘sell’ instructions for each item.2 But when it came to the collection of family letters, Denys ordered Doulceur to burn them all.
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See, for example, A. Grafton, Bring out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
P. N. Miller. Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).
G. Algazi, ‘Scholars in Households: Refiguring the Learned Habitus, 1480–1550’, Science in Context 16 (2003), pp. 9–42.
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Sherman, C.R. (2008). Resentment and Rebellion in the Scholarly Household: Son and Amanuensis in the Godefroy Family. In: Broomhall, S. (eds) Emotions in the Household, 1200–1900. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286092_9
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