My ancestor was a Grand messager de l'universite de Paris.Does anyone know what this job was?
Any help gratefully received
Thanks
Jan
what is a Grand messager?
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Hello,
"Grand messager de l'université de Paris" means that your ancestor was a relative important person. This kind of statue was quite important, the "grand messager" was not travelling (not like the "little" one or "flying" one if we have to translate). They were graded and important (but in this particular case we're having a difference between graded and officers, your ancestor was an officer, so higher status).They were there to help students at the University (when "little" and "flying" ones were travelling to deliver letters and messages to students' families).
I found few links about it, but all in French... Hope it's clear, it's quite hard to translate
Have a nice day,
Sparrow91
"Grand messager de l'université de Paris" means that your ancestor was a relative important person. This kind of statue was quite important, the "grand messager" was not travelling (not like the "little" one or "flying" one if we have to translate). They were graded and important (but in this particular case we're having a difference between graded and officers, your ancestor was an officer, so higher status).They were there to help students at the University (when "little" and "flying" ones were travelling to deliver letters and messages to students' families).
I found few links about it, but all in French... Hope it's clear, it's quite hard to translate
Have a nice day,
Sparrow91
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Thank you. Does this mean he helped students with their studies or in general with life as a student, finances etc?
I think this ones were helping with very differents aspects, not only messages which were for the ones less who were not officers...
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Thank you very much. Is it possible for you to send me the links please?
Kind regards
Jan
Kind regards
Jan
Hi,
Here are some links (but all in French sorry) :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_de_Paris (for this one there's an English version but the informations you need are not in the English version )
http://histoirepostale.com/histoire/la_poste_des_universites.htm
Kind regards,
Dawn
Here are some links (but all in French sorry) :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_de_Paris (for this one there's an English version but the informations you need are not in the English version )
http://histoirepostale.com/histoire/la_poste_des_universites.htm
Kind regards,
Dawn
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Thank you very much Dawn. I do have a little French so that helps and I was able to get a google translation.
Cheers
Jan
Cheers
Jan
You're welcome
In future, if you need some help for research in France or help with French, you can send me a private message with this website.
Cheers,
Dawn
In future, if you need some help for research in France or help with French, you can send me a private message with this website.
Cheers,
Dawn
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Hi Dawn, Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate that.
Cheers
Jan
Cheers
Jan