Gex
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CMV33439
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MS 33
Title:
Gex
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Incipit Diplomatic:
J’ai l’honneur de vous renvoyer les piéces, Méunires et Aeqùter que vous m’avez adressés relativement à la demande porteé au Conseil par la Communuté de lelex pour être adressee à jouir de l’affranchissement de tous les droits de ferme et de la vente exclusive du sel et du tabac qui a été accordé au Pays de Gex.
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Brief Summary:
Original signed letter from Guillaume Joseph Dupleix to ‘M. le Directeur Général’ dated Dijon 23 xi 1778. Endorsed ‘No.3786’; ‘AM. Coutumer 27 9bre 1778’, ‘Communiqué à la ferme glle 28 9bre 1778’ and M. de Laage’.
Detailed Summary:
In this letter, Guillaume Joseph Dupleix responds to the demands of Lelex to be afforded the same privileges as the Pays de Gex with regards salt and tobacco taxes. The letter begins halfway down p.1, showing Guillaume Joseph Dupleix’s respect for the recipient.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
11 ff.
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Dimensions:
315 x 208 mm
Hands:
2
Watermark:
Each sheet of paper is watermarked with text reading: ‘FIN DE M[fleur-de-lys]IOHANNOT ENVIVARETS 1742’.
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Additional Comments:
The sheet of paper providing p.21 has been cut to create a small flap that folds around the left-hand side of p.1. A series of small holes run along the foldline, suggesting that the manuscript was once bound. There is a small ink splatter in the lower left-hand corner of p.8. There is a faint horizontal foldline, perhaps created to facilitate its being sent as a letter. There are also two very slight vertical foldlines on the left- and right-hand sides of each leaf, creating a left-hand margin on each side of the leaf.
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Undecorated
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Notes in a separate hand have been added to f.1r detailing the date of the letter and the parties involved.
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Ownership:
Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872).
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Provenance:
Bought at auction by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) at Sotheby’s, London on 29th June 1976.
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