Ensemble de papiers anciens dont lettre manuscrite en langue Anglaise située à Québec et datée du 28 juillet 1754, diplôme ‘à la gloire du grand architecte de l’univers’ daté 23ème jour du 11 mois de l’an de la vrai lumière 5826, ensemble d’assignats, vignettes asiatiques et reproductions de documents anciens
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CMV32829
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Vichy Enchères- Lot 150
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Ensemble de papiers anciens dont lettre manuscrite en langue Anglaise située à Québec et datée du 28 juillet 1754, diplôme ‘à la gloire du grand architecte de l’univers’ daté 23ème jour du 11 mois de l’an de la vrai lumière 5826, ensemble d’assignats, vignettes asiatiques et reproductions de documents anciens
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Brief Summary:
Various manuscripts, including an autograph letter from Voltaire to the comte du Laurencin.
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A collection of various documents, including: (I) Set of assignats comprising 16 assignats of five pounds from 1793 (Brumaire year II), 11 assignats of ten pounds from 1792, 3 assignats of fifteen sols from 1793, 2 assignats of 10 sous from the fourth year of freedom, 4 assignats of fifty sols, and 1 assignat of twenty-five sols.
(II) Set of autograph documents from Besins & Cie. including a letter from Joseph B. to Napoleon I (Madrid, 1808), a letter from Verlaine, a letter from Malherbe, a codicil from Napoleon, a testament from Racine, a note from Pierre Corneille, a letter from Voltaire to the Count of Laurencin, a letter of resignation from Cardinal de Rohan to Louis XVI, lots from the trial of the necklace (1786), last letter from Louis XVI to the National Convention, a letter from Beaumarchais to the Minister of the Interior, a letter from François I to the Empress, wife of Charles V on the subject of the interview at Aigues-mortes, a letter from Marie-Stuart to Philip II, a letter patent from Charles VII ennobling Jean d’Arc and his family (1429), a farewell letter from Charlotte Corday to her father after his arrest for the assassination of Marat, and some minutes.
(III) A set of four drypoint engravings of Versailles by Laboratoire Galbrun, ‘Bassin de Cérès’, ‘Le Tapis vert’, ‘Temple de l’Ampur'[?] and ‘Maison de la Reine’.
(IV) Les Laboratoires Carlier, ‘La cabinet de Perles’ by Thomas Lawrence, engravings, 1837.
(V) ‘Woman in French painting, 17th, 18th and 19th century’, Les Éditions Nationales, Paris.
(VI) A handwritten letter in English located in Quebec and dated 28 July 1754.
(VII) Certificate ‘To the glory of the great architect of the universe’ dated 23rd day of the 11th month of the year of true light 5826 (1817).
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c.18th
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Sold at auction by Vichy Enchères, 16 avenue de Lyon, 03200 Vichy on 17 February 2022 (Lot 150).
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