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440 - Marc-Antoine BOURDON DE VATRY (1761–1828), a civil servant, …
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Estimate €400 - €500
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Marc-Antoine BOURDON DE VATRY (1761–1828), a civil servant, served as Minister of the Navy. 7 letters, January–October 1790, to Mr Du Collet, a merchant in Nantes; 19 pages, quarto, with addresses. Correspondence with a fellow Freemason on the events of the day. 19 January. ‘At the moment, money is so tightly held that it is nowhere to be seen. It has reached the point where it takes a whole day to discount a bank note for 300 livres. Our cash supply is dwindling day by day, despite new coinage, and this shortage can be attributed to two causes: one is the emigration of the wealthy, who are buying up silver to spend it abroad, the other being the highly ill-advised peace treaty concluded with the English’… – 10 April. On the towns and castles in the vicinity of Tilly, and their owners, including the Count of Ligray, ‘whose party is the “drunkardocracy”’; he believes they are ‘of good stock’, as are the parish priests… – 8 June, on the plan for a ‘general confederation’ for 14 July. – 31 July. He was appointed secretary of the elective assembly; he refers to the liquidation of the Duke of Penthièvre’s fiefs. – 16 August. Accounts; ‘We are up to our necks in the Caballe; for my part, I am busy protesting against appointments made in defiance of all orders and decrees’. – 8 September. He regrets having to dismiss servants. – 15 October, to Mr Joubert, at the Château de Tilly. He has been dismissed by ‘the Caballe’…
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part II
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Auction time 10/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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