The civil marriage certificate (acte de mariage) of Marcel Romain Lebrun and Eugénie Marie Désirée Vandenberghe — act No. 1 in the 1882 register of the commune of Autouillet, in the canton of Montfort-l’Amaury west of Paris. The marriage was celebrated on 23 March 1882 before the mayor, Augustin Royer. It is the deepest primary document the Lebrun line yet has, and it settles several long-open questions in a single page.
What it establishes
- The groom. Marcel Romain Lebrun, insurance agent (agent d’assurances), born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris in March 1861, then living at Rambouillet, 1 rue d’Angerville.
- His parents. Émile Edme Lebrun, architect, aged 51, of Rambouillet, and Clotilde Anastasie Chomet, aged 48 — both present and consenting.
- The bride. Eugénie Marie Désirée Vandenberghe, born at Menin (Menen), Belgium, on 11 April 1856.
- Her parents — newly named here — Aimé Cyrille Edmond Constantin Vandenberghe, a merchant (négociant) of Moorseele, Belgium, and Julie Aimée Thérèse Brame, who had already died. Her father consented from Belgium by notarial act passed before Me Casteleyn, notaire at Menin, in December 1881.
- A marriage contract was drawn the day before, on 22 March 1882, before Me Loyseau, notaire at Neauphle-le-Château — evidence the couple had property worth settling formally.
Provenance
The certificate was researched and first circulated in November 2020 by Katia Abinader, a Lebrun-side cousin who has gathered European civil records for the family. Mireille Jeannopoulos forwarded it in July 2026, at which point it entered this archive. The names it fixes — the Vandenberghe merchant family of Moorseele, the architect Émile Edme Lebrun — mark the Belgian-Flemish and Paris roots from which the Lebrun line eventually reached Haiti, and then Florida.