PUYSÉGUR (Louis-Pierre de CHASTENET, comte... - Lot 188 - Vermot et Associés

PUYSÉGUR (Louis-Pierre de CHASTENET, comte de) 1726-1806 Lieutenant-general; Minister of War from Nov. 30, 1788 to July 12, 1789, and emigrated - Letter signed from VERSAILLES March 14, 1789, to M. De LA PORTE - 1p in-folio: ".The devastation caused by last summer's hail, as well as the floods which occurred as a result of this winter's excessive cold, combined with the current high cost of grain... The King, to whom I have given an account of these representations, having kindly taken them into consideration; it is His Majesty's intention that no levy be made this year for the service of the Provincial Troops..." he asks him to make these provisions known in his Generalitat.