Louis-Hercule-Timoléon de Cossé Duc de BRISSAC... - Lot 128 - Vermot et Associés

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Louis-Hercule-Timoléon de Cossé Duc de BRISSAC... - Lot 128 - Vermot et Associés
Louis-Hercule-Timoléon de Cossé Duc de BRISSAC (1734-1792, Grand Pannetier of France and Governor of Paris - At the head of the Constitutional Guard of Louis XVI during the Revolution, he was accused of anti-revolutionary opinions for his excessive loyalty to Louis XVI - Arrested and imprisoned, he was kidnapped during a transfer by a band of fanatical revolutionaries - He defended himself with strength and courage but the rioters murdered him en masse - His body was cut up, his head thrown out of the window in the living room of his mistress Madame du Barry in Louveciennes) / Pass signed by his hand, 1 page in-folio, partly printed and filled in by hand, vignette with the Royal Arms and red wax seal, important at the top with his titles and functions: The Duke of Brissac grants on May 12, 1783 to "let surely freely pass repass" Joseph Soucillon, merchant of small hardware fairground native of Faverge in Savoy, Several endorsements and signatures, of Dieppe, Rouen and Valenciennes (state of use, the document traveled with the holder, reinforcements on the back)
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