Set of documents: -Avis de réception dans l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint Louis. On behalf of Pierre PITAT, received into the order by the Marquis d'Autichamp, second-in-command of the Gendarmerie corps. Signed "Louis". Signed June 20, 1779 in Versailles. This is probably Pierre PITAT, maréchal des logis of the Gendarmerie. -Brevet de pension en faveur de Madame Desfarges, veuve de Louis Joseph du Barail, ancien garde du corps du Roi. On vellum. Signed "Louis" and maréchal de Ségur. Signed July 1, 1787, Versailles A.B.E

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