Photocopies of three articles/extracts from printed works relating to Count James Louis Rice of Dingle

Reference Number: PP/2714
Level of Description: Item
Title: Photocopies of three articles/extracts from printed works relating to Count James Louis Rice of Dingle
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 2014
Extent: Pages: 14
Description: Photocopies of three articles/extracts from printed works relating to Count James Louis Rice of Dingle, later of no. 8, Royal Crescent, who fought a famous duel on Claverton Down with Viscomte Adolphe du Barry at which du Barry was killed. Also includes covering emails from Dingle researcher Pat Neligan explaining their contents and relevance to Rice (Document 1 - 'Marie Antoinette and Dingle' relates Rice's involvement with a scheme to rescue the French queen from the Temple Prison and take her to Dingle; Document 2 relates to time Rice spent in Guernsey; Document 3 relates to Rice's peripheral involvement in a plot to assassinate William Pitt and George III in 1794)
Subject: French Revolution (1789-1799)
Georgian Period