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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3102

Historical Documents
(Louis XVI)
1791 (December) a sixteen page printed inventory with estimated values, including lands, furniture, jewelry and personal possessions. The booklet concludes with a comparison between old (royal) and new (revolutionary) government expenditure, to the advantage of the latter. There is a manuscript addition on one of the pages. The document is addressed to the king in rather obsequious language, despite his being under house arrest following his aborted flight

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Estimate
£240 to £280