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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BISCUIT PORTRAIT BUST OF LOUIS-MICHEL LE PELLETIER DE SAINT FARGEAU

CIRCA 1793

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BISCUIT PORTRAIT BUST OF LOUIS-MICHEL LE PELLETIER DE SAINT FARGEAU
Circa 1793
Truncated at the shoulders, his stock looped loosly around his neck, on turned ormolu socle and further canted square base
13½ in. (34.4 cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

An aristocrat turned revolutionary, Louis-Michel Le Pelletier de Saint Fargeau voted in favor of guillotining Louis XVI and was himself assassinated in a cafi 21 January 1793, the day after the vote and on the eve of the king's death. Le Pelletier de Fargeau was given a state funeral and hailed as a republican martyr.

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