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276 - [Ancien Régime – Monarchy]
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[Ancien Régime – Monarchy] Historical documents, 15th to 18th centuries A collection of 13 handwritten and printed documents, including P.A.S., Château de Marle, 25 April 1407, parchment, signed ‘Villebresme’; Louis I, Duke of Orléans, son of Charles V, King of France, instructs his adviser Jean le Flament to pay, without delay, two hundred gold francs to Jehan de Jonchery, collector of taxes in Reims Deed of sale of land, 30 March 1451, on parchment, in the seigneury of Bosquel near Amiens (Picardy) L.S., Versailles, 18 September 1746, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Secretary of State for the King’s Household and the Navy, addressed to Thomas-Eudelin-Marie-François Mervé de Jonville, Consul-General in Thessaloniki “ ( ) It is not surprising that, given the scarcity of our cloth in Thessaloniki, that from Venice has found some market there, and only peace can enable our merchants to put a stop to this new trade L.S., Paris, 3 January 1785, Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis-Richelieu, Duke of Aiguillon, Peer of France (1720–1788) P.A., undated [c. 1777], addressed to Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant-General of Police from 1759 to 1774 Chevalier de Montazeaud, who is being held in the Bastille for reasons known to the Minister, continues to plead for his release. He expresses his most sincere remorse for having brought upon himself the government’s severity. Ruined and stripped of his fortune, and deprived of his reputation, he desires his freedom solely so that he may use his talents to support and provide for his family. His wife ( ) implores the Minister’s clemency so that she may retire with her husband to a seaport Jean François d’Essaux de Montazeaux, an officer in the Royal Navy, abandoned his wife in Genoa in 1775, ran up debts and made a name for himself in Paris by living it up; as Minister Sartine was unable to curb his excesses, he had him imprisoned in the Bastille. [Bulletin of the Société des Antiquaires de l’Ouest, 1990] Letter, 2 January 1707, from Louis II Phélypeaux, Marquis de la Vrillière (1672–1725), Secretary of State for the So-called Reformed Religion; expressing thanks for the New Year’s greetings received, 1 page, in-8 Letter written from Paris on 11 December 1726 addressed to Pierre René Gilbert des Vaux, Marquis de Levaré, at his château de Levaré near Erné (Mayenne), giving news of the Court and of events in Paris and across Europe Etc... FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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