Comte Hector de La Ferrière-Percy

Who he was

Count Hector de La Ferrière-Percy (1811–1896; one library record gives 1898), historian of sixteenth-century France and editor of the Lettres de Catherine de Médicis for the Collection de documents inédits (vols 1–5 from 1880), e.g. «Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, publiées par M. le comte Hector de La Ferrière» (archive.org, lettresdecatheri02cathuoft). Not the couture house Laferrière.

The identification rests on Marie's «le comte de la Ferrière, celui qui écrit» (098.0492) and «très, très vieux» (098.0298): no other comte de La Ferrière was a writer in Paris in 1883 (0.8). Mon Journal t.15 index: «Laferrière (comte de la) : 182, 185, 199, 222», kept apart from «Laferrière (Caroline, couturière)».

In the diary

• 6 February 1883 (098.0298): among the guests of the family dinner at the Grand Hôtel, «le comte de Laferrière (très, très vieux)».
• 11 February 1883 (098.0322): at Mme Kanchine's dinner with the Molinari.
• 14 March 1883 (098.0492): he brings Marie the Salon critic «Paul de Charry», i.e. Mme Marie Presseq of Le Pays.
• 14 April 1883 (099.0126): a simple dinner with him and Mme Presseq.