Documents

Title:

Letter Patent signed by Louis XVI

Object Name:

Documents

Creator:

The Undersecretary

Date:

December31,1785

Material:

Ink on paper

Dimensions:

H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches

Description:

Framed letter patent signed by Louis XVI, King of France and countersigned by the Baron de Breteuil. Dated December 31, 1785.

Louis par la gr�ce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre,
� notre ami et f�al conseiller, en notre Conseil d�Etat, et Garde de notre Tr�sor Royal, M. Fran�ois Louis Joseph de la [...] de Moreville, commis(?) aux exercices de feu M. Joseph Mieault d�Harvelay, ci-devant Garde de notre Tr�sor Royal, Saluts, voulant pourvoir � plusieurs grandes(?) et importantes affaires concernant le bien(?) de notre service, et pour donner lieu � icelles, nous voulons et nous mandons que des deniers tant ordinaires qu�extraordinaires de notre Tr�sor Royal des restes de notre exercice [...] quatre-vingt-cinq, vous payez comptant aux personnes selon et ainsi qu�il sera par nous command� les sommes de deniers que nous vous r�serverons(?) pour les restes de notre exercice de la dite ann�e 1785 dont nous ne voulons �tre [ni/n�y] fait mention [ni/n�y] d�claration plus expresse, et rapportant par nous ces pr�sentes sign�es de notre main, avec la certification de la v�rification que nous aurons faite en notre Conseil Royal des Finances; des paiements que vous aurez faits en vertu des pr�sentes et des commandements particuliers que vous aurez re�us de nous. Nous voulons que la somme qui sera port�e par ladite certification soit pass�e et allou�e en la d�pense de nos comptes d�duite(?) et rabattue(?) de la recette d�iceux par nos amis et f�aux conseillers les [...] de nos comptes [...] auxquels nous manderons de ce faire, par les lettres que nous saurons exp�dier pour la confirmation des(?) paiements que vous aurez aussi faites; car tel est notre plaisir. Donn� � Versailles le trente-uni�me jour de d�cembre l�an de gr�ce mil sept cent quatre-vingt-
cinq et de notre r�gne le douzi�me [...].
Par le Roi.
Le sous-secr�taire.


Louis by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre,
to our friend and faithful advisor, in our Council of State, and Guardian of our Royal Treasure [Chancellor?], Mr. Fran�ois Louis Joseph de la [...] de Moreville, responsible(?) for the transactions of the deceased Mr. Joseph Mieault d�Harvelay, formerly Guardian of our Royal Treasure [Chancellor?], Greetings, desiring to see to many great(?) and important affairs regarding the good(?) of our service, and to tend to these affairs, we wish and we decree that of ordinary as well as extraordinary monies from our Treasury from what is left of our budget
[...] eighty-five, you pay in specie to individuals as it shall be by us ordered the sums of monies that we shall for you reserve(?) in what is left of our budget for the said year 1785 for which we shall make no mention or expressed declaration, and bringing forth by us the present [letters] signed by our hand, with the certification of the verification that we shall have made in our Royal Council of Finance; of the payments that you will have made by virtue of the present [letters] and of the particular orders that you will have received from us. We desire that the sum that will be taken by the said certification be passed and allocated in the expense of our accounts deducted(?) and withdrawn(?) from the income of these by our friends and faithful advisors the [...] of our accounts [...] for which we shall decree that such be done, by the letters that we shall expedite for the confirmation of the(?) payments that you shall also have made; for such is our pleasure. Given at Versailles the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five and of our reign the twelfth [...].

By the King.

The undersecretary.

Provenance:

Given in Versailles on December 31,1785, this patent signed by Louis XVI discusses former Royal Treasure Guardians. It also discusses monetary issues regarding the budget for the year 1785 and how much money is left in the treasury. The final sentence asks for the confirmation of the payments that have been made.

Subjects:

Letters, Documents

People:

Louis XVI

Place of Origin:

Versailles, France

Collection Name:

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire

Item Number:

1988.030

Accession Number:

1988.030

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

Gift of Maurice Hall, 1928

Participating Organization:

American Independence Museum