Lot n° 193
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Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de MALESHERBES (1721-1794) m - Lot 193
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de MALESHERBES (1721-1794) magistrate and minister, he defended Louis XVI before the Convention and was guillotined. L.S., Paris January 6, 1788, to M. de Saint-Paul commissaire ordonnateur des Guerres; 1 page and a quarter in-4. Reminds his correspondent of a "small matter": "It is the brevet de Capitaine de Dragons ou de Cavalerie that the Comte de Chateaubriand, my grandson, is applying for, and which he is to be decorated with in England, where he is following the French embassy" [Chateaubriand's elder brother had married Malesherbes's granddaughter].
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