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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2080

Historical Documents
1821 (3 Sept.) letter from Jaques Lauriston, the Secretary of State, on letterhead, "Ministère de la Maison du Roi" from Paris to M. Le Baron Mounier, "Pair de France", thanking him for his mémoire but regrets that the state of the country's finances necessitates the postponement of all proposals concerning pensions. Signed "M de Lauriston". On watermarked (horne 1821) laid paper; two folding creases with some archival tape repair. Photo

Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston (February 1, 1768 – June 12, 1828) was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent, and a general officer in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Pondicherry in India, where his father, a nephew of the financier John Law, held a senior position in the colonial regime. A comrade of Napoleon, he had a distinguised military career in the artillery of the Imperial Guard before he became a minister of state.

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£220 to £250