From her acte de naissance, Marie Généreuse Grasset Latour was born le 12 Ventouse an cinq de la Républiaue Française. Her birth was reported by her father Jean Grasset Latour the next day. During the République, France adopted a calendrier révolutionaire to replace the Georgian calender. Under the Georgian calender her birth date was 2 March 1797. Marie Généreuse's father Jean is listed as a captain in the army, age 35. Her mother is Marie Bertrand. The two witnesses were Thomas Balvet, tonnelier (cooper), 35 and citizen Marie Généreuse Boizard, 23.

Marie Généreuse's 1835 Acte de mariage from Bergerac states that she was a couturière (seamstress), age 38, living with her mother. She married Élie Giron a tailleur d'habits (tailor) and widower, age 38, with three children. Giron’s mother was Anne Bertrand. [Possibly a relation to Marie Bertrand?] Duhamel notes that Marie Bertrand didn’t know how to sign her name on the register. This record provided Duhamel both the birth date and place for Marie Généreuse as well as the death date and place for her father Jean Grasset Latour.

Duhamel also uncoverd a four-page marriage contract between Marie Généreuse Grasset Latour and Elie Giron. Marie Généreuse was the eldest daughter of the late Jean Grasset Latour and Marie Bertrand. Elie Giron was a widower with three children by Marie Dauge and the son of Pierre Giron and Anne Bertrand, both deceased. The contract lists the estate items brought to the marriage by each party. Giron's contribution to the marriage included 30 bed sheets, 26 canvas tablecloths, 17 embroidered napkins, 44 hand towels, 4 complete beds, plus a house in Bergerac on rue Pélissière and a vinyard. The dowry of Marie Génénereuse included a sum of 2,700 francs, 6 bed sheets, 2 large tableclothes and 2 pink-stripped tablecloths, 32 embroidered napkins, other small napkins, and a mirror.

 

 

Marie Généreuse died in Bergerac at 8 in the evening of 18 February 1836, less than a year after her marriage and only a fortnight after giving birth to her first child Pierre Giron on 4 February 1836. Her son Pierre died nine days after his mother on 27 February 1836, only 23 days old.