Restoring from TimeMachine

Hi there,
I made a mistake and all of my archived mails are "gone". I don't have them in iCloud anymor, nore on my MacBook. BUT, it seems the mail file can be restored from my last TimeMachine backup. The only question is : WHERE IS IT ? What's its name ?
Any answer welcome, fo course, many thanks in advance and merry X-mas to you all
JeanDesVilles

1. Open Mail.
2. With the external disk connected, open Time Machine, navigate through your backups and choose Restore to restore your mails from this backup

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