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Ancien Régime France and the French Revolution - a collection of 9 ink MS letters from pre-Revolutionary French aristocrats and clergymen, including the Minister of Finance and archbishop Etienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794), while Bishop of Condom (1760-1763), dated 1761, (1); Jean-Antoine du Cerceau (1670-1730), Jesuit and man of letters, addressed to the Prince de Conti, dated 1718, (1); Gabriel Cortois de Quincey (1714-1791), Bishop of Belley, dated 1787, (1); Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf (1734-1799), while Bishop of Autun and addressed to the Vicomtesse de Pons from Versailles, dated 1786, (1); Pierre-Louis de Leyssin (1721-1801), Archbishop of Embrun, dated 1788, (1); Daniel-Joseph de Cosnac (1700-1741), Bishop of Die (1734-1741), dated 1734, (1); Louis-Léon Marie Potier de Gesvres, Duke of Gesvres from 1739-1774, addressed from Fontainebleau and dated 1750; and his brother, Cardinal Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres (1697-1774), as Bishop of Beauvais, (1); etc., [9]
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