FRANÇOIS I (1708-1765) duke of Lorraine, then Emperor of Austria. L.S., Vienna M…

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FRANÇOIS I (1708-1765) duke of Lorraine, then Emperor of Austria. L.S., Vienna March 6, 1765, to the Commissaire de Chateaufort; 1 page in-fol. in French, address with seal of arms under paper. Order to intervene with the French government in favor of "Claude Heissen, Knight of the military order of St. Louis," instructing the commissioner "to make the steps you will consider appropriate [...] But in case his request does not seem to you to be well-founded, or that you encounter difficulties, you will not insist on this object, wanting to avoid all discussions which could have consequences...

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