{"id":1070,"date":"2021-07-05T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:31:14","slug":"homing-in-on-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Homing in on Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Detail of the 1818 Cadastre napol\u00e9onien showing the location of Chateau Chateaubrun and Mas des Cannes, Macintosh’s country property in the rural hinterland of Avignon. Archives d\u00e9partementales de Vaucluse, 3 P 2-007\/006<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although working out exactly where Macintosh lived in the countryside outside of Avignon in the 1780s is not, in any fundamental sense, vital to my research, it is a puzzle that I have found difficult to resist. Much of the impetus behind my desire to know where<\/em> he was living comes from the fact that so much of his correspondence during this period was concerned with the house and with a long-running dispute with his landlords (the Messieurs Monery, father and son) over its quality and state of repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Plan of the augmentations agreed between me & Mr. Monery\u2014exhibited the 1st June 1784”. Archives d\u00e9partementales de Vaucluse,<\/em> 2 E Titres de<\/em> famille 86, “Maison de Chateaubrun \/ 1784\u20131788”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Macintosh’s plans of the building, such as the one above, I have a fairly good sense of what it looked like internally, but where, precisely, it was has always been something of a mystery. Macintosh’s letters from the period are generally addressed to and from “Chateau Brun” or “Chateaubrun”, but in some documents the property is referred to as “Mas des Cannes”. The Napoleonic cadastre makes things clear, showing the chateau (where Macintosh lived) and the neighbouring farmhouse, the Mas des Cannes. Sadly, both buildings were razed during the 1930s<\/a> to make way for the construction of the Avignon-Caumont aerodrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Google Maps view of the location of the former chateau (the northmost spoke of the roundabout) and farm house (the patch of wooded grass to the east) close to the entrance to Avignon\u2013Provence Airport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although working out exactly where Macintosh lived in the countryside outside of Avignon in the 1780s is not, in any fundamental sense, vital to my research, it is a puzzle that I have found difficult to resist. Much of the impetus behind my desire to know where he was living comes from the fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}