Comte du CHÂTELET LOMONT (Marie Louis Florent,) Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, Maréchal de ses Camps et armées, Colonel-Lieutenant de son régiment d'Infanterie, Gouverneur des Villes de TOUL et de SEMUR EN AUXOIS, Ambassadeur auprès de Sa Majesté BRITANNIQUE (En-tête Sceau aux armes impr., Vignette royale). Signed, March 2, 1769, on a Life Certificate for Madame Élisabeth GIDEON, Wife of the London-born Lord Viscount de GAGE, residing in Westminster. 1page gd in-folio partly printed.

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