Marylee MacDonald

Noël exhibited this picture in 1778 at the Salon de Correspondence.

Jean Noël Turrelure, dit Noël, died on January 17, 1834, but the notaries didn't arrive till the 26th of March.

57 rue Menilmontant

A week into the trip, I've accumulated quite the stash of library cards.

In the Reading Room of the Archives nationales, you can examine the original records of quit claim deeds, property transfers, and death inventories. Here, I'm looking at the records for the carte de surete, a sort of internal passport all Frenchmen had to carry immediately after the Revolution.

With new information that Noël's name was actually Turelure, Dr. Emmanuel Schwartz, the Director of the art academy's library, turned to the records for 1766.

The light-filled atrium of the Academy of Beaux Arts

Documents from French notaries are in the Archives Nationales.

Chappe d'Autroche led a 1769 expedition to Baja California to study the Transit of Venus.

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Selected Works

MEMOIR

Surrender

A boy. A girl. A baby. How will she tell their story to the son she gave away?

FICTION

Body Language

Do we flee from danger or seek it? How far will we go to experience the solace of human touch?

Bonds of Love and Blood

Prize-winning short stories for armchair travelers and readers willing to explore the intricacies of the human heart. For more about the book, click the title.

The Rug Bazaar

The Rug Bazaar features two unconventional love stories. Winner of the Jeanne M. Leiby Memorial Chapbook Contest.

Montpelier Tomorrow

A novel about a mid-life mom who would do anything to protect her children from harm. Winner of a Gold Medal for Drama from Readers' Favorites International Book Awards.

NONFICTION

The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers

This nonfiction book lists 350 non-fee-charging publishers who accept unagented manuscripts.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

The Price We Paid

The true story of a fifteen-old girl's journey to motherhood.

ESSAY

The Ugly Duckling, Chinese Babies, and Me

My short personal essay about identity, writing, and adoption appears in the anthology ROLL, edited by Coco Harris.

Notes for a New Millennium

What does the world think about America in the aftermath of 9/11, and what do we think of ourselves in relation to Afghanistan?

The Vermillion Sea

A Descendent of Noël's Drawing Teacher

May 27, 2012

Tags: Fabien de Silvestre, Nicolas Charles de Silvestre, Jacques Augustin de Silvestre, Jean Noël Turelure

Noël studied with King Louis XV's drawing master, Nicolas Charles de Silvestre, and with his son, Jacques Augustin. On Sundays the archives shut down, so I went out to Etampes and had a wonderful lunch on the terrace with the great grandson of Jacques Augustin.
The first artist in the Silvestre family, Israel Silvestre, escaped religious persecution in Scotland and moved to the Read More

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