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LOUIS XVI Document signed ("Louis", possibly in a secretarial hand), being an order to the Marquis de Lannay for the release of Rozalie Biffaultre from the Bastille, both framed and glazed (2) image 1
LOUIS XVI Document signed ("Louis", possibly in a secretarial hand), being an order to the Marquis de Lannay for the release of Rozalie Biffaultre from the Bastille, both framed and glazed (2) image 2
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LOUIS XVI
Document signed ("Louis", possibly in a secretarial hand), being an order to the Marquis de Lannay for the release of Rozalie Biffaultre from the Bastille, both framed and glazed (2)

20 November 2019, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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LOUIS XVI

Document signed ("Louis", possibly in a secretarial hand), being an order to the Marquis de Lannay for the release of Rozalie Biffaultre from the Bastille, printed and accomplished in manuscript, countersigned by the Baron de Breteuil, folio, Versailles, 4 June 1786; and another letter in an unidentified hand to Comte Charles de Colbert, "Capitaine de Vaisseaux", 4to, Toulouse, 22 August 1815, both framed and glazed (2)

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Provenance: First item, Christie's, 8 May 1985, lot 253.

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