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ANCIENT REGIME. Approximately 80 letters and documents,...

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ANCIENT REGIME. Approximately 80 letters and documents, including a register, 17th-18th c. Manuscript register, 1775; folio of 38 numbered ff. in contemporary cardboard.title on the upper cover: 2nd year of David's lease. Tobacco. Transport register, for the warehouse in Seurre (Burgundy), listing deliveries by debtor, and drawing up accounts (last ff. torn off). Miscellaneous documents: notarial deeds, leases, wills, marriage contracts, proceedings, housing tickets, archer's patent for the King's guards (1623, signed by Sébastien Le Hardy), certificates of non-payment of salaries, receipts and receipts, pensions, tariffs for the measurement of the perch of Lautrec, model of reports for crop damage, military certificates and leaves, convocation to the Royal Agricultural Society, plan of the farm of Annequin (1791), etc. Letters and miscellaneous items, notably by the Marquis d'Arcambal, François-Charles Chevreuil, Baron de Falckenhayn (Mahon 1782), Viscount de Mirabeau, Marquis de Tourny, etc. There are enclosed 20 prints, including a table of the state of the housing of the army commanded by Marshal de Broglie (printed in Metz); plus qqs engravings.