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LE JEU DE PAUME AU 6, RUE D'ARPELLE

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LE JEU DE PAUME AU 6, RUE D'ARPELLE

Document signed, a quittance referring to the resolution of a dispute over the unsatisfactory work carried out under a contract to build 'un jeu de paulme six rue de l'arpelle et maison independante, et deux mil livress pour les reparacions qu'il connoit faire dans la dite maison et jeu de paulme', manuscript in brown ink in a mid-seventeenth-century hand, signed at the end by both parties and two notaries, 23 March 1668, 3 pages, folio (marginal note for insertion, signed with initials by the notaries on page 2, numerals jotted in margins and 2 underlinings in red pencil).

The resolution of a complicated disagreement over payment for an unsatisfactorily finished contract for a house and tennis court, involving Pierre Foresti 'Seigneur d'Orgemont, Conseiller Maistre d'hostel et Premier Valet de chambre du Roy demeuran a Paris rue des fossez et paroisse St Germain l'Auxerrois', Jean de Rancurel 'Seigneur de St Martin, [...] du Roy et son con[seil]ler Intendant des maisons et finances de la Reine ... demeurant en sa maison rue matignon', Dame Marie Magdelaine Germain (his wife) and Dame Charlotte Godin, widow of Jean Germain, 'Sieur de St Aubin', referring to various sums of money, the employment of workers, and the stonework.

[and]: a document regarding a contract between Otto Frederick de Zevender 'S[ieu]r de Kenvenburch Maeselant, gentilhomme hollandois estant a present a St Germain des Pres a l'accademie du Sieur Descamp et escuyer de la grande escurie du Roy', and 'Sieur Jaques de Gournay marchand fournissant la garde robe du Roy, bourgeois de Paris demeurant rue de Sevre parroisse Saint Sulpice', for which the former acknowledges the receipt of two thousand livres, signed by both parties and two notarial witnesses, 5 February 1658, manuscript in brown ink in a mid-seventeenth-century hand, 1½ pages, folio, integral blank (annotated with a calculation on verso, slightly browned and worn at edges). (2)
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