AGRICULTURAL CALAMITY of 1785. "By Monseigneur LE COMTE D'AR - Lot 173

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AGRICULTURAL CALAMITY of 1785. "By Monseigneur LE COMTE D'AR - Lot 173
AGRICULTURAL CALAMITY of 1785. "By Monseigneur 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 the 22nd of May 1785 - "Following the King's Ordinance of the 17th, concerning the Parcours & vain Pâturage in the woods of the Domains of His Majesty... in order to remedy the dearth of Fodder occasioned by the aridity of the season. My Lord would have recognized that it was as much of his justice as of his benevolence, to provide the same help to the Vassals of his Apanage... My Lord allows the Vassals of his Apanage & of his Patrimonial Lands, to send or to have their Horses & Horned Animals led only, in the Woods & Forests depending on it, to make them graze there until the next October 1st... ". Royal Vignette. Printed in ANGOULÊME (16), by Claude Rézé, printer of Monseigneur. 1785. Cupboard (41 x 34) Condition B
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