Title page from St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei, edition of 1467,
in the library of the University of Bern (ZB Inc II 12). In the inscription,
the future minister Jaques Tacheron calls the minister Pierre Dutoit his
step-father (Latin vitricus). The significance of the arms, in the lower left
corner, identical to the arms of the Gachet family of Payerne and the
branch of Gatschet of Bern, is unknown.
That the same Anne Frossard who was the wife of Clement Tacheron and mother of the minister Jaques Tacheron was also the second wife of the minister Pierre Dutoit is proved by an inscription on a very beautiful copy of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei, printed in 1467, in the library of the University of Bern (ZB Inc II 12): "Hunc librum mihi Jacobo Tacherono Meldunensi Diacono dono dedit Petrus de Tecto Meldunensis Pastor et Vitricus meus anno 1629". That is, "this book was given to me Jaques Tacheron of Moudon, deacon, by Pierre Dutoit of Moudon, minister and my step-father, in 1629". How this valuable book came into the possession of Pierre Dutoit is unknown, and we have no additional information about its subsequent history. We are indebted to Martin Davies for bringing this inscription to our attention.
MARRIAGE: 28 OCT 1576, Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland
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Marriage contract of 25 nov 1576 (her second marriage, recorded by Jaques Richard, notary at Moudon, DL 79/1 fol 89v) says she is the daughter of the late Jean Frossard and his widow Isabel, and that she has a brother Michel Frossard. The record of her first marriage in the church registers of Moudon gives the same parentage, daughter of the late Jean Frossard.
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Contract recorded by Jaques Richard, notary at Moudon, 25 nov 1576.
A "reconnaissance" dated 28 jan 1592 (ACV Fn 343 fol. 309v) concerns Egr�ge Michel Frossard, secr�taire et bourgeois de Moudon, acting for his sister-in-law Annaz Gervais, daughter of Gervais Gervais and, from the preceding reconnaissance on fol. 307, also the (half-)sister of Jehan Dutey. From this, we conclude that Antoine Frossard was a brother of Michel Frossard.
