♂Raphaël Sallé

Raphaël Sallé was a master needle-maker in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century, known from the marriage contract of his son Pierre, drawn up in 1646. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Pierre Sallé. On 21 September 1621 Raphaël Sallé married Marie Fossé in Paris, the widow of Claude Foulon, a master needle-maker; the marriage contract was drawn up before the Paris notaries de Troyes and Bourgeois.

On 22 January 1646 his son Pierre, himself a master needle-maker, signed a marriage contract before the Paris notary Michel Le Cat with Françoise Loupiat. The contract names Pierre as the son of Raphaël Sallé, also a master needle-maker, and of his wife, Marie Fossé; the bride’s father, Cosme Loupiat, followed the same trade, so the marriage joined two needle-making families. The contract does not say where the groom’s parents lived; they were probably in Paris, since both fathers belonged to the Paris guild of needle-makers. Jean-Paul Macouin’s 2024 abstract of the contract, in his book on the Paris notarial records of New France’s pioneer families, spells the father’s name Rapsaul. The Fichier Origine, the Québec genealogical federation’s file of French emigrants, names Raphaël and Marie as the grandparents of Elisabeth Salée (born about 1651), who went to New France in 1670 as one of the King’s Daughters^W. No record of his baptism or death is known.

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Where the parents lived

The contract of 22 January 1646 names both parents of the groom but does not give their residence. Macouin’s 2024 abstract describes the groom as a master needle-maker of Paris and both fathers as masters of the same trade; the Paris residence is an inference from that guild membership, not a statement in the contract.

The 1621 marriage

The marriage rests on the inventory of Claude Foulon’s estate, made in Paris on 22 September 1621 at the request of his widow, Marie Fossé (written “Fesse” in the inventory). The inventory names Raphaël Sallé, also a master needle-maker, as her betrothed and says the marriage contract was drawn up the day before, before the Paris notaries de Troyes and Bourgeois. The date of 21 September 1621 follows from that wording. The contract itself is in the Paris notarial records of the Archives nationales and is not online, so the date rests on the inventory’s reference to it.