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Lot n° 118

LA FONTAINE Jean de (1621-1695).

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P.S. "De la Fontaine", signed by three other persons, October 2, 1659; 1 page in-4 (2 engraved portraits attached). The undersigned "Jehan de la Fontaine m[aît]tre par[ticulie]r des eaux et forêts de Ch[âte]au[thier]ry", Louis CARRIER, King's prosecutor, Henri BURON, master sergeant and hammer-guard, and François TAILLEFERT, chief clerk of the eaux et forêts, who all four signed this document, confess to having received 200 livres from Mrs Berthault, Leguers and Deschamps, of which 80 for La Fontaine, and 40 for each of the three others, "for the rights of entry and exit which they are obliged to pay for the forty of coppice wood [..] of the Barbillon bush" sold and adjudicated on September 29.