HUNTING TRIAL. Louis XIV. Letters of remission... Lot 37

HUNTING TRIAL. Louis XIV. Letters of remission following a hunting incident, signed "Louis" (secretary). Versailles, September 1708. Handwritten oblong broadsheet (60.5 x 51 cm) calligraphed in brown ink on vellum skin, green and red silk lakes. Rare handwritten document granting remission to Géraud Peitevin, brigadier of a cavalry company in the Queen's regiment, who killed a man wrongly trying to prevent him from hunting on land in Boujan near Béziers. Justice and the family of the deceased considered this to be an involuntary case of self-defense, and the King granted him a pardon to avoid prosecution. With details of the hunt and the incident. Countersigned by Louis Phélypeaux de la Vrillière or Jérôme Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, as Secretary of State, with visa signed by Chancellor Louis Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain. Remarkably preserved, minor vellum loss with damage to a few words, seal missing.