COCHE D'EAU SUR LA SEINE / Printed folder (38 x 46.5 cm, old - Lot 57

COCHE D'EAU SUR LA SEINE / Printed folder (38 x 46.5 cm, old repair to back) with engraved vignette bearing the Royal Arms, in which the King announces that, by decision of his Council of State at Versailles on July 17, 1785, he is canceling the lease granted by the sub-fermier des Domaines de la Généralité de Paris, granting Jacques Gosse, Bourgeois de Paris, "the right to establish and operate carriages by water to carry all kinds of people from the Pont Rouge to the Pont de Sèvres, as well as to operate said carriages every Sunday and holiday, both to Saint-Cloud and to Suresnes": the King considers that this sub-ferryman has no rights on the river and "His Majesty wishes to leave individuals free to use ordinary carriages".