ANTIN. Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan, duc d'Antin (1665-1736), fils de Mme de Montespan, courtisan, membre du Conseil de Régence

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ANTIN. Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan, duc d'Antin (1665-1736), fils de Mme de Montespan, courtisan, membre du Conseil de Régence
5 Signed pieces, 1 signed letter, 1 signed autograph letter (incomplete from the beginning) and a letter and memoir written on his behalf. - Order to Anisson director of the Royal Printing Office to deliver works (1736). - 4 orders to the steward of his land of Bellegarde (1730). - Letter to President Bon [first president of the Chambre des Comptes of Montpellier] asking him, on the Regent's order, to have Sieur Duval arrested. Accompanied by a memorandum entitled "Opinion of the Duke d'Antin on the Bonet affair": "My opinion is that it is irrelevant to take justice into one's own hands even when one has a judge like the King or his representative; that there is nothing worse than having the denial of the cases one undertakes. The example of my father-in-law should make us wise [...]". - Incomplete letter on the sale of furniture and a tapestry (1702) and letter in his name (1715).
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