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Originally Posted by Merry
Oh yes! That would be great!!
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This is what I said on one of the old threads, after Shona found a Mr Giacobbi, gentleman, in the Alien Arrivals database, arriving in Dover from France:
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It does seem very likely it's her husband in view of the date. I still wonder what on earth she was doing in Paris in 1848, when there was a revolution on.
They must have been right in the thick of it; the revolution broke out on 23rd June, François (possibly) visited England on 27th October, Agatha and François were married on 15th November, and the revolution ended on 2nd December when Louis Napoleon was elected President.
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Those are not the actions of an ordinary person, just about to be married (there was only just about time to get the banns read if he headed straight back to France). Of course, we don't know if Agatha was already in France, or he crossed the Channel to fetch her.
And of course it might not be François at all; Mr Giacobbi, gentleman could be one of his brothers, or somebody else entirely.