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Lot n° 45

LOUIS XVI - MADAME ROYALE - FAMILLE ROYALE. Ensemble...

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- An engraved will of Louis XVI, framed in palmettes, from the Restoration period. 1 p. folio - An engraved memento for the death of Louis XVI. "Pray for the soul of the late Louis XVI" with crowned skull. 2 pp. in-16 - A lithographed portrait of Louis XVI. - A facsimile of Louis XVI's will. 4 pp. in-4. - MADAME ROYALE, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, dite (1778-1851), first child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Propaganda tract printed at the time of the Hundred Days. Montpellier, March 1815. 1 p. in-4 - DE CROŸ, Louise Élisabeth (1749-1832), marquise then duchess of Tourzel, last governess of Louis XVI's children. governess to the children of Louis XVI. L.A.S. addressed to the Baroness de Talleyrand. Paris, October 14, 1820. 1 p. in-4. Red wax seal with her cipher. She asks him for information about a woman, wife of a bourrelier in Ivry and daughter of a "Madame Ste Marie, nursemaid to the young King Louis XVII", who says she is riddled with debt. - VILLEDEUIL, Pierre-Charles Laurent de (1742-1828), Controller General of Finances under Louis XVI. L.A.S. Paris, August 11, 1814. 1 p. ½ in-4. "[...] in 1788 or 1789 the late His Majesty Louis 16 deigned to erect my land of Villemenon into a marquisate [...] on July 17, 1789 I was forced to flee Versailles and at the same time I went to England, where I resided for 25 years. During the storms of the Revolution, my land at Villemenon was seized and sold, and all my papers and titles were destroyed [...]". Lot presented by Mathilde Lalin-Leprevost, C.N.E. expert (06 84 38 90 72).