BEAUVAU-CRAON family. 9 pieces: Genealogical note on the origins of the House of BEAUVAU, formerly known as Beauval, "descended from the ancient contes d'Anjou of Torquatus, a Roman knight"... + Letter signed "BEAUVAU", to Camp de BALLART October 16, 1705, sending the service record of the officers of the ROHAN Regiment. + Printed 1747: "Arrêt du Conseil d'État supprimant les droits de péage et de travers par eau et par terre dans la seigneurie d'Epinay (Généralité de PARIS), propriété de la marquise de Beauvau + 5 letters (1752) concerning a hunting and poaching case, opposing the Baron de CRAON and M. de LORESSE + Letter A.S. from the Princesse de CRAON, 1853, on the fate of her son, captain of a ship that had been sabotaged.

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