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Charles Gravier, count de VERGENNES (1719-1787) diplomat, minister of foreign affairs. L.S., Versailles August 18, 1785, to M. de La Tour d'Auvergne Corret, Capitaine au Régt d'Angoumois; 1 page small in-4. About a passport for Spain. "When you will have obtained from M. le Mal de Ségur the permission to be absent from the Kingdom," it is with pleasure that he will send him the requested passport for his next trip to Spain...

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Charles Gravier, count de VERGENNES (1719-1787) diplomat, minister of foreign affairs. L.S., Versailles August 18, 1785, to M. de La Tour d'Auvergne Corret, Capitaine au Régt d'Angoumois; 1 page small in-4. About a passport for Spain. "When you will have obtained from M. le Mal de Ségur the permission to be absent from the Kingdom," it is with pleasure that he will send him the requested passport for his next trip to Spain...

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Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

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