[Historical Autographs] - Count de LA SUZE, Louis Michel CHAMILLAR...

[Historical Autographs]
- Count de LA SUZE, Louis Michel CHAMILLARD (1709–1802), Grand Marshal of the King’s Household. Signed autograph letter, sent from La Suze on March 23, 1756, regarding an intervention on behalf of the local miller, Mr. Chauvelier (one and a quarter pages). Enclosed is a signed letter, sent from Paris on April 16, 1760, disputing property revenues (2½ pages)
- Michel de CHAMILLARD (1652–1721), protégé of Madame de Maintenon, Controller-General of Finances and Minister of War. A signed letter, sent from Marly on June 26, 1706, to Mr. Despontis, regarding a request made to Marshal de Villeroy for Despontis’s appointment to a post in Flanders. One folio page. Enclosed is a signed letter, sent from Paris on April 8, 1693, to Mr. Le Bret, regarding the meeting of the courts of Marseille (2 folio pages); a signed note certifying the disability of a lieutenant of the Grenadiers, sent from Versailles on February 7, 1703, and a second signed certificate of retirement for Sieur Konckoly, lieutenant of the Saint-Geniez Hussar Regiment, dated Versailles, December 22, 1706 (marked “deceased” on the back on February 4, 1707).
- Two letters from Fontaine, secretary to M. de Chamillard, are also enclosed.