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LOUIS XVI (1754-1793), King of France. Document signed ('Bon Louis'), a pay order addressed to Joseph Duruey, administrator of the Royal Treasure, Paris, 7 February 1790, for the payment of 3,000 livres to Sieur Pajot de Marcheval, Conseiller d'Etat, 'pour les six derners mois 1789 du traitment annuel sans retenue que je lui ai accordée en attendant qu'il ait obtenue des bureaux et autres graces équivalentes'. Provenance. Dealer's stamp of Damiano Muoni on verso.
A pay order dating from the uneasy interlude between the royal family's forced removal from Versailles to the Tuileries in October 1789 and their attempt to flee the country in June 1793.
A pay order dating from the uneasy interlude between the royal family's forced removal from Versailles to the Tuileries in October 1789 and their attempt to flee the country in June 1793.
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