544 - Claude-Antoine de VALDEC DE LESSART (1741–1792), Minister.
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Claude-Antoine de VALDEC DE LESSART (1741–1792), Minister. 7 letters, 1791–1792; 20 folio pages (ink seals from the Le Métayer Masselin collection). 1791, as Minister of the Interior. – 28 January, to the Messrs of the Seine-et-Oise department, concerning public works and compulsory labour… – 28 June, concerning road works and levies. – 22 July, concerning the primary assemblies in Nantes. 1791–1792, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Mr Barthélemy. – 31 December, concerning the Elector of Mainz and the presence of émigrés within his domain… – 29 February, regarding the *Gazette de France*, and the bulletins to be sent to him on ‘political, economic and literary news’… – 4 and 6 March, concerning the Elector of Mainz and the Court of Vienna. Enclosed is a pamphlet from the Society of Friends of the Constitution, containing Claude Fauchet’s denunciation of de Lessart (February 1792).

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544 - Claude-Antoine de VALDEC DE LESSART (1741–1792), Minister. See original version (French)

544 - Claude-Antoine de VALDEC DE LESSART (1741–1792), Minister.
See original version (French)