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“Une passionnante histoire de famille” (Sud Ouest)
20 July 2017
- Type
- Publication (press article)
- Date
- 20 July 2017
- Source
- Source D of the site’s pages (Sud Ouest, web edition)
Original document, not reproduced on this site (publisher’s rights): see its reference below.
Summary
An article published on the Thursday before the Dutilh family reunion in Clairac. The journalists meet Claude Martin, then aged 90, who tells them the story of this Protestant family: its departure after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, for England and Holland, and the trading links it kept with Clairac. The article also mentions the visit of Chris Dutilh, in search of his family’s history, Claude Martin’s work with Clair Morizet and the programme announced for the weekend.
Why this document matters
It is the only document gathered by the project that describes Claude Martin’s way of working: in the evening, after his day in his father’s fabric shop, he reconstructed the genealogies of Clairac families from the departmental archives, the municipal archives and the accounts of local people. It also shows him, at 90, at work for the Dutilh family, at the family’s request.
Read with caution
- The historical background of the article contains at least one obvious error (the wrong king named for 1685): it is not repeated on this site.
- Number of descendants gathered: “about sixty” according to this article, 66 according to Sud Ouest of 22 July 2017, 70 according to the Société des amis de Clairac (May 2018) — the sources differ.
Related people, families, places and themes
- People
- Claude Martin de Robert, Chris Dutilh, Clair Morizet, Michel Pérat
- Families
- Dutilh
- Places
- Clairac, the Lot, Bordeaux, England, Holland, United States, Turkey, Pech de Berre
- Events
- Dutilh reunion in Clairac — July 2017
- Organisations
- Sud Ouest
- Themes
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- genealogy
- family history
- Huguenot emigration
- return to one’s roots
- Claude Martin’s research method
- Dutilh family
Other related sources
- Société des amis de Clairac, Newsletter no. 1 — May 2018 (publication)
- “Les Dutilh de retour aux sources” (Sud Ouest) — 22 July 2017 (press article, in French)
Original source
Catherine Darbord and Jean Escodo, “Une passionnante histoire de famille”, Sud Ouest (sudouest.fr, Tonneins section), 20 July 2017, 3 pp. (web printout).
View the original on the publisher’s website
Description
- Title
- “Une passionnante histoire de famille” (Sud Ouest)
- Date
- 20 July 2017
- Period
- 2010s (story told: from 1685 to 2017)
- Author
- Catherine Darbord and Jean Escodo
- Source
- Source D of the site’s pages (Sud Ouest, web edition)
- Provenance
- Printout of the article’s web page, sent to the project in September 2026
- Place
- Clairac
- Family
- Dutilh
- Type
- Publication (press article)
- Language
- French
- Original file
- Not reproduced on this site (publisher’s rights)
- Transcription
- Not published on this site (publisher’s rights).
- Translation
- Not applicable (document in French)
- Rights
- © Sud Ouest — article and photograph not reproduced on this site; original summary and short quotations only.
Project inventory reference: document ingestion of 30/09/2026, source D.
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