{"id":599,"date":"2017-11-15T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=599"},"modified":"2017-11-15T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:13:38","slug":"macintosh-at-home-part-the-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh at home, part the second"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The main facade of Macintosh’s town house, from Rue Grande Monnaie<\/p><\/div>\n

Since returning from Avignon I have concentrated on completing the catalogue of Macintosh’s library, which now stands at 78 items, but have also been keen to confirm my identification<\/a> of his Avignon town house.<\/p>\n

One piece of evidence appears to confirm my suspicions\u2014an address given by Monsieur Pierre de Brion (former member of the Vaucluse chapter of the organisation Vieilles maisons fran\u00e7aises<\/a>) to the Franco-Scottish Society on 9 June 1990. de Brion’s address\u2014”Sur les pas des Stuarts et des Ecossais qui vecurent a Avignon 1716\u20131813″\u2014contains an account of the appearance of Macintosh’s home:<\/p>\n

La fa\u00e7ade de cet h\u00f4tel, qui est d\u2019une grande puret\u00e9 de lignes, comprend un rez-de-chauss\u00e9e, un premier \u00e9tage et un attique au-dessus d\u2019une corniche saillante. Le tout a 5 fen\u00eatres par \u00e9tage, dont 3 per\u00e9es dans un avant-corps central que surmonte, au-desses de la corniche, un fronton triangulaire. Et, comme vous pouvex le voir d\u2019ici, dans le tympan de ce fronton figure un \u00e9cusson de forme ovale et renfl\u00e9e o\u00f9 sont grav\u00e9es des armoiries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This description corresponds directly with the rear elevation of the property on\u00a0Rue des 3 Testons\u00a0(above), particularly the <\/span>pediment\u00a0with the\u00a0oval escutcheon containing a coat of arms (see below).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>

Detail of the pediment<\/p><\/div>\n

de Brion’s account, which was published in\u00a0Des Ecossais a Avignon<\/em>\u00a0(1993), is valuable because it also dates Macintosh’s purchase of the property to 15 May 1786 and records the purchase price as 11,300 French livres.<\/p>\n

Prior to the purchase of this property, Macintosh lived, according to de Brion, “\u00e0 sa campagne de Ch\u00e2teaubrun dans les environs d’Avignon”. Together with the inventory of Macintosh’s seized books is a list of his papers. This list includes the entry “Papiers relatifs \u00e0 la Grange de chateau brun que Mr Machintosch [sic<\/em>]\u00a0avait afferm\u00e9e de Mr de Monery de Caylus 1780\u20131788 [papers relating to the barn, chateau brun, that Mr Macintosh had leased from Mr\u00a0de Monery de Caylus\u00a01780\u20131788]”.<\/p>\n

Macintosh addressed many letters from Chateau Brun, so it is apparent that this building was more than a mere barn. Quite where it was, other than in the vicinity of Avignon (possibly near Montfavet), is not quite clear; that will require more digging. It looks likely, however, that the Monsieur\u00a0de Monery de Caylus in question was\u00a0Ignace-Dominique-Didier de Monery de Caylus<\/a> (1726\u20131792). The entry for de Moneray de Caylus on Geneanet lists the following event in his timeline: “21 June 1780 : Donation-Succession – Chateaubrun, Vaucluse”. The source for this event is listed as “nice historique : Marquesan”, which I presume is a reference to the journal Nice Historique<\/em><\/a>. The reference to “Chateaubrun, Vaucluse”\u2014and its correspondence with 1780, the year Macintosh began his lease\u2014would seem to be more than coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since returning from Avignon I have concentrated on completing the catalogue of Macintosh’s library, which now stands at 78 items, but have also been keen to confirm my identification of his Avignon town house. One piece of evidence appears to confirm my suspicions\u2014an address given by Monsieur Pierre de Brion (former member of the Vaucluse […]<\/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-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}