Claude Louis Hector de VILLARS, Maréchal de France in 1702, - Lot 51

Claude Louis Hector de VILLARS, Maréchal de France in 1702, Pair de France, Président du Conseil de Guerre (1715-1718), Maréchal Général des camps et armées du Roi (Moulins/ Allier 1653 - 1734) - Letter signed VILLARS, from MARLY February 6, 1728, to Mr de BAREOS. 2 pages in-8°: "Je vous envoie, Mon cher Monsieur de Bareos, les réponses que j'ai reçu des Maire et Échevins de la Ville d'ARRAS. I beg you to give an account of them to Mr. Maréchal de VILLEROY to see if they conform to all that the court must require. I hope that his good health will allow him to hold the first Assembly, but he knows that I am at his orders. Ainsy, be that as it may, I shall go to his house or mine next Thursday, depending on what is marked in the warning bill..."