René Mans VI de FROULAY, Comte de TESSÉ, the last Marquis de - Lot 336

René Mans VI de FROULAY, Comte de TESSÉ, the last Marquis de LAVARDIN (1736 - 1814) lieutenant-general for the King in Maine, Perche and Laval County, first equerry to the Queen at the start of the French Revolution. He was forced to expatriate himself and abandon all his properties. On his return from exile, Monsieur de Tessé still owned, in addition to Château de Lavardin, Château de Mézières, known as Vieux Lavardin, his Hôtel de Tessé in the town of Le Mans (not far from the red pillar) and the forest of La Bazoge - Autograph letter signed from his exile in Wittmold near Plön (Germany) on February 18, 1798. Curious letter concerning the results of his economic experiments in grating Tobacco. "... He has seen in Holland a chest where a single man grates three carrots (of tobacco) at a time and that it takes him no more than two hours to grate them, that this chest is in use at all the tobacco merchants in Amsterdam..."