Château Saint-Pierre: The First Division
On February 9th 1774 the elder of the two daughters, Marie-Françoise, had married Jean Pierre Bontemps-Dubarry (1739 – 1825), and she proceeded to give birth every couple of years thereafter, producing a huge family in the process with ten daughters, two sons, and countless grandchildren that followed. Catherine Marguerite, meanwhile, was slightly less fecund; she married Jean Dubouilh (died 1832) on September 6th 1775, and they had by comparison a rather paltry three children.
Despite the shared ownership between siblings, the estate remained whole, at least for the moment. Marie-Françoise was the first to die, in 1841, and her half of the estate was inherited by one of her two sons, Jean Pierre Georges Bontemps-Dubarry (1784 – 1865), a colonel in the cavalry. His share included the château, and a part of the vineyard. Catherine Marguerite died a few years later, in 1846, but by this time she had already ceded control to two daughters and their spouses. These were Marthe Magdelaine Delphine Dubouilh, who had married Charles Aimé Roullet (1769 – 1847) and Françoise Delphine Fanny Dubouilh, who was wedded to Raymond Galloupeau. Writing in Traité sur les vins du Médoc (first edition, Chaumas, 1824), Wilhelm Franck was one of the first to describe the fractured ownership of the domaine, the three proprietors being Bontems-Dubarry (a variation in spelling of Bontemps), producing between 25 and 35 tonneaux of wine per annum, Roulet (another spelling variation, this time of Roullet) and Galoupeau (and another) who were each producing 12 to 18 tonneaux per annum.
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