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LOUIS XVI

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LOUIS XVI
(1754 - 1793) King of France whose ambivalent policies cost him the support of Royalists and Revolutionaries, put under house arrest after his attempt to flee France, condemned by a tribunal for treason and guillotined with his wife Marie Antoinette. Handsome manuscript D.S. "Louis" 3pp. folio, Versailles, Dec. 26, 1780, a fine financial document regarding Chalons, with detail about the housing and barracks for troops in Champagne, countersigned by members of the Royal Council of Finances, and boldly signed by Louis as conclusion. A central fold and a bit of toning to margins, else very good condition.