Château La Grave à Pomerol: The Dubourg Family
Marie Élisabeth Trigant de Boisset (or Trigan de Boissé, if you prefer the spelling according to Cocks et Féret) went on to marry the lawyer Gabriel-Henri-Albert Dubourg on February 19th, 1868, presumably after the publication of the Cocks et Féret which listed her as mademoiselle that very year. As a consequence the estate now passed into the ownership of the Dubourg family, and indeed in the 1874 edition of Cocks et Féret the proprietor is listed as Dubourg. Despite this, sometime during the latter years of the 19th century the name was amended to La Grave Trigant de Boisset, seemingly in honour of Marie Élisabeth and her family.
Exactly what happened to the estate when in the hands of the Dubourg family is uncertain. I have uncovered no record of the union having produced any children, and ultimately the estate came into the hands of the Bouché family. I have failed to identify any link between the Dubourg and Bouché families, although admittedly some of the details are sketchy. Nevertheless it seems likely that the estate was sold, perhaps an inevitability if there was no heir apparent.
The Bouché Family
The property now came into the hands of Edgard Bouché. The Bouché in question was Jean Théophile Edgard Bouché, who in 1914 married Eléonore Marie Madeleine Larroucaud (born 1892). She was the daughter of Pierre Larroucaud, a character who has already cropped up on these pages; he was responsible for the creation of Château L’Enclos, bringing together a number of parcels of vines near the end of the 19th century in order to do so. Edgard Bouché did not limit himself to Pomerol though, as he also owned Château Vrai Canon Bouché in Canon-Fronsac
