Storia do Mogor 8.4

8.4

The elder Deslandes left India in February, 1701, and on his reaching Paris lent Catrou the MS. Memoirs of Manucci for perusal. Shortly afterwards, on December 28, 1703, Boureau-Deslandes was appointed Commissaire de la Marine in the West Indies, and left France without obtaining a return of Manucci's manuscript. After doing good work for the State, he died at Laogane, in St. Domingo, on February 13, 1706 (Adrien Desalles, ' Histoire Generale des Antilles,' 5 vols., Paris, 1847-1848, vol. ii., pp. 320, 333, 346). Manucci's manuscript remained with Catrou, and when he had done with it he deposited it in the library of the college of his society at Clermont in Paris (now the Lycee Louis-le-Grand, in the Rue St. Jacques, near the Sorbonne). There it remained till the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, and there, in 1763, Anquetil Duperron saw the three volumes. In 1763 the Jesuits were expelled from France, and their property sequestrated. Mr. Henri Omont, in his ' Documents sur la Vente des Manuscrits du College de Clermont a Paris, 1764' (Extrait du ' Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Isle de France,' 1891, I., xviii., pp. 7-18), gives the arret by the Parliament of July 5, 1763, decreeing the sale of the MSS. Dom Clement, author of ' L'Art de verifier les Dates,' aided for the Oriental MSS. by de Guignes and Bernard, for the Greek and Latin by Brequigny, produced a catalogue, of which the title-page is : ' Catalogus | manuscriptorum codicum |