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In a message dated 26/02/2004 22:01:12 GMT Standard Time, xyz@earthlink.net writes:
I'll go for an hour- as I said I have church and census records...However scandal has been found "The second piece of info. comes
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pp. 178-179 of Sven CedergreenBech's "Storens By: Københavns Historie," bind (volume) 3, 1728-1830. Publication data: København,
Danmark, Gyldendal, c1981.

The gist of of it is that Pierre Frontin was among a group of Frenchmen recruited by the Danish king to help oversee commerce.

He married Elisabeth Fistaine, daughter of another Frenchman. In 1760 Pierre was brought before a city
court and accused of of spousal abuse of the most flagrant kind. He was a wife-beater, and a doctor testified to the wife's
condition after being beaten.

Pierre was sentenced to two years of hard labor and a fine. He rejected the sentence, saying that since he was a royal civil
servant, the municipal court had no jurisdiction over him.

A royal court's jury upheld the finding of guilt but waffled on his punishment.

Eventually he was deemed too important a man to be put to hard labor. (In other words, Pierre
got off and held his civil service job until 1767.)"

He seems to have disappeared in 1770. I wonder if there's a mention in police records or somewhere else.
desvære jeg er sygmeldt i England og kan ikke komme igang i LAK eller RA

er der nogen at vid noget om ham ?

mvh
Hugh W

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