Set of twenty-two passports used by Nicolas DEVILLE,... Lot 379

Set of twenty-two passports used by Nicolas DEVILLE, treasurer to the Princes, and his son Gabriel DEVILLE, former officer in the Swiss Guards, including: - Two French passports for father and son (April 1791), one "De par le Roy", one on the letterhead of Bailly, mayor of Paris, and a passport from the Prussian legation in France. These passports must have served the father for his emigration; - Rare handwritten emigration passport in the name of Treasurer General Deville, signed by the Princes, Monsieur and the Comte d'Artois ("Louis Stanislas Xavier" and "Charles Philippe"), January 1, 1793. Wax stamps of the two princes. One page; - Two printed passports headed "Nous, Charles Philippe de France". Done at Hamm on March 28, 1794. Signed by the future Charles X "Charles Philippe"; - Passport du conseil d'état de Sa majesté le Roi de Prusse en sa souveraineté de Neuchâtel et Valengin en Suisse (1795); - Printed passport du Consul des Etats-Unis d'Amérique à Hambourg (1796); - Passport de la Légation du royaume de Prusse en Grande bretagne (1797); - Passport du Royaume de Prusse (1799). - Large passport of His Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Commendable Helvetic Corps (1800, bilingual). - Passport headed Charles Guillaume Ferdinand duc de Brunswick Lunebourg (bilingual, July 1792).