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ARCHIVES - LOIRET. Two boxes containing many documents,...

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[ARCHIVES - LOIRET]. Two boxes containing many documents, mainly from the Orléans region. - More than 80 memoirs, brochures and printed documents from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 19th century (most of them from the 18th century): Deliberations of the general assembly of the town of Orléans held on 1 December 1788 concerning several objects relating to the convening of the États-généraux, printed copies of the convention on the suspension of the municipality of Orléans, mandates from the bishop of Orléans, minutes of the meetings held in the Saint-Paterne d'Orléans Church, by the citizen Laplanche, representative of the people in the department of Loiret (78) bound with several other printed documents, The King's speech at the opening of the Lit de Justice held in Versailles on 5 May 1788, a memoir for a postmaster in Artenay, a petition to the National Convention by the citizens of Orléans, the address of the people's representative to the citizens of Orléans, accounts of the operations of the municipality of Orléans from 31 December 1792, the day of its installation, to 22 March following the date of its installation, etc. - Scattered correspondence addressed to the bookseller Houzé in Orléans (early 20th century). - Correspondence addressed to M. de Blanville in his castle of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (about fifty letters, many of them from the Count of Montpinçon, + various memoirs 1770-1790) + fragments of parchments and various old documents.