BIB_ID
432591
Accession number
MA 23397
Creator
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, author.
Display Date
[Paris], [1816]
Credit line
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
[16] pages : facsimiles, 25 cm
Notes
Title from binding; gilt lettering continues with dedication: Donné par le Roi a Mr. Fauvelet - de Bourrienne (Louis Antoine) ministre d'etat, membre du conseil privé du Roi, de son conseil d'etat et de la chambre des deputes 1816.
Stamped in gilt on spine: Fac Simile.
From an edition of printed facsimiles of the wills of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette produced with the official authorization of France's Minister of Police, Élie Decazes, and published in Paris in 1816 with an introductory essay by L.E. Audot, under the title "Fac similé du testament de Louis XVI, seule éd. autorisée par S. Ex. le ministre de la police générale, comme conforme à celle faite sur l'original, gravé par Pierre Picquet, chargé par S. Ex. de la gravure des exemplaires distribués au nom du roi. On y a joint le fac similé d'un fragment d'écrit de Madame Elisabeth, et des signatures de la reine Marie-Antoinette et du jeune Louis XVII; accompagnés d'une notice historique ... par L.-E. Audot."; this copy evidently consisting of specimens of the 1816 facsimile presented by King Louis XVIII to Bourrienne, omitting the letterpress, title, wrappers, introduction, and additional facsimiles included in the published edition.
The individual leaves of the facsimile embossed with the royal seal with the arms of France and Navarre (Louis XVIII); with the seal of the Minister of Police stamped in red ink on the second document in the volume.
Lithographic (?) facsimiles of four documents created from the originals by Pierre Picquet, including two copies of wills written in the hand of King Louis XVI, and two in the hand of his queen, Marie Antoinette. Each facsimile bears a signed handwritten "envoi" or official explanatory inscription, written in the name of the king in the hand of the Minister of Police, Élie Decazes, and stating that the facsimile was presented to Bourrienne by the King. The envois for the two wills by Louis XVI are dated by Decaze 10 April 1816, and those appended to the two wills by Marie Antoinette are dated 28 February 1816.
Stamped in gilt on spine: Fac Simile.
From an edition of printed facsimiles of the wills of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette produced with the official authorization of France's Minister of Police, Élie Decazes, and published in Paris in 1816 with an introductory essay by L.E. Audot, under the title "Fac similé du testament de Louis XVI, seule éd. autorisée par S. Ex. le ministre de la police générale, comme conforme à celle faite sur l'original, gravé par Pierre Picquet, chargé par S. Ex. de la gravure des exemplaires distribués au nom du roi. On y a joint le fac similé d'un fragment d'écrit de Madame Elisabeth, et des signatures de la reine Marie-Antoinette et du jeune Louis XVII; accompagnés d'une notice historique ... par L.-E. Audot."; this copy evidently consisting of specimens of the 1816 facsimile presented by King Louis XVIII to Bourrienne, omitting the letterpress, title, wrappers, introduction, and additional facsimiles included in the published edition.
The individual leaves of the facsimile embossed with the royal seal with the arms of France and Navarre (Louis XVIII); with the seal of the Minister of Police stamped in red ink on the second document in the volume.
Lithographic (?) facsimiles of four documents created from the originals by Pierre Picquet, including two copies of wills written in the hand of King Louis XVI, and two in the hand of his queen, Marie Antoinette. Each facsimile bears a signed handwritten "envoi" or official explanatory inscription, written in the name of the king in the hand of the Minister of Police, Élie Decazes, and stating that the facsimile was presented to Bourrienne by the King. The envois for the two wills by Louis XVI are dated by Decaze 10 April 1816, and those appended to the two wills by Marie Antoinette are dated 28 February 1816.
Provenance
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne; bookplate of Jean-Louis du Temple de Rougemont; Patrick Sourget; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
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