AGRICULTURAL CALAMITY of 1785. "By Monsignor LE COMTE D'ARTO - Lot 157

AGRICULTURAL CALAMITY of 1785. "By Monsignor LE COMTE D'ARTOIS." - Extract from the Registers of the Council of Monseigneur Le Comte d'ARTOIS (Future CHARLES X, brother of the King), held at VERSAILLES on May 22nd, 1785 "Following the King's Ordinance of the 17th, concerning the course & vain grazing in the woods of His Majesty's Domains... in order to remedy the shortage of fodder caused by the aridity of the season. My lord would have recognized that it was as much his justice as his benevolence, to provide the same help to the vassals of his prerogative... Monseigneur allows the Vassals of his prerogative and his patrimonial Lands, to send or to have their Horses and Horned Beasts driven only, in the Woods and Forests depending on them, to graze there until October 1st...". Royal Vignette. Printed in ANGOULÊME (16), from the Imprimerie de Claude Rézé, Monseigneur's printer. 1785 Cupboard (41 x 34) State B