An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild.

The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]