Documents used in researching this project

When I began assembling these notes, they were intended for personal use. I did not intend to write much nor, as a consequence, did I feel the need to remember the sources used to assemble them. This is not at all professional and, a number of years further on, a decision I keenly regret. Due to the unstructured manner in which I look at the history of the Cassini and Maraldi families and their times, I am frequently at a loss to know where information came from.

So I am making a belated attempt to assemble some of the sources with the hope they might be of use to others and, of course, to me in my continuing interest in the families and related matters. Although this will consist mainly of written sources, I have also made visits to France and Italy, and spoken and corresponded with many individuals over a period of time. The multiplicity of sources makes individual references impractical.

The illustration above is a detail, hidden in Jean Dominique Cassini’s moon map, showing what is thought to be a portrait of his wife, Géneviève.

Regrettably this list will start with the most recent resources, and it may take me some time to rediscover where other information came from. My research and reading includes, but is not limited to the following…

Cassini and Maraldi families	References in alphabetic order
Bachaumont	de Bachaumont, Louis Petit and de Mairobert, Mathieu Francois Pidanzat. Mémoires secrets pour servir à l’histoire de la république des lettres en France depuis MDCCLXII jusqu’a nos jours, ou Journal d’un Observateur. Tome neuvième. à Londres. [John Aamson]. 1780.
Cassini 1	Cassini, Anna. Gio. Domenico Cassini: Uno scienziato del Seicento. [Comune di Perinaldo]. 1994.
Cassini 2	Cassini, Anna. I Maraldi di Perinaldo. [Comune di Perinaldo]. 2004.
Cassini Mme	Cassini, Mme the Marquise de Cassini. Four letters addressed to William Windham, Secretary for War. 1797.
Correspondence – academic	Correspondence with academics involved with the history of the period.
Correspondence – authors	Correspondence with authors of works dealing with the Cassini and Maraldi families.
Correspondence – genealogy	Correspondence with family and genealogists having an interest in the Cassini and Maraldi families.
Correspondence – specialists	Correspondence with specialists working in the areas of astronomy and cartography.
Delambre	Delambre, Jean-Baptiste, Histoire de l’astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. [M. Mathieu]. 1823.
Desnoiresterres	Desnoireterres, Gustave Le Brisoys. Le Chevalier Dorat at les poètes légers au XIIIe siècle. [Elibron Classics]. 2005.
Grandmaison	Grandmaison, Thomas-Jean. Rapport fait au comité de recherches de la municipalité de Paris tendant a dénoncer M M Maillebois, Bonne-Savardin et Guignard Saint-Priest Suivi de Pièces justificatives et de l’arrêté du comité a Paris chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Haute-Feuille, No. 20 Juillet 1790.
Grimm	Grimm, Friedrich Melchior., Diderot, Denis., Mesiter, Jacques-Henri., Taschereau, Jules-Antoine., and Chaudé, A. Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot depuis 1753 jusqu’en 1790. Tome Neuvième. 1776-1778. Paris. [Chez Furne, Libraire]. 1830.
Mairobert	de Mairobert, Mathieu François Pidanzat. L’Espion Anglois ou Correspondance Secrete Entre Milord All’eye et Milord All’ear. Tome Quatrieme. A Londre. [John Adamson]. 1784.
Perinaldo – interviews	Interviews and discussions with a member of the Cassini family, Perinaldo, Liguria, Italy.
Perinaldo – Observatory	Discussions with members of the staff at the Observatory, Perinaldo, Liguria, Italy.
Perinaldo – parochial archives	Research at the Parochial archives of the church of San Nicolò, Perinaldo, Liguria, Italy.
Price	Price, Munro. Preserving the Monarchy: The Comte de Vergennes 1774-1787. [Cambridge University Press]. 1995.
Robb	Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France. [Picador]. 2007.
Sparrow	Sparrow, Elizabeth. Secret Service: British Agents in France, 1792-1815. [The Boydell Press]. 1999.
Tilly	de Tilly, Alexandre. Mémoires du comte Alexandre de Tilly: pour servir à l’histoire de moeurs, Volume 1. Deuxième Edition. Paris. [Chez les Marchands des Nouveautés]. 1828.

more to be written…