MEUDON (92). MARLY LE ROI (78). "Édit du Roi portant réunion du domaine de MEUDON à celui de VERSAILLES." Given at MARLY in May 1778 - in Paris, from the Imprimerie Nationale, 3 pages in-4°: "King Louis XIV had considerable buildings and vast gardens built at Versailles. Louis XV increased it with various seigneuries, notably those of SÉVRES, VILLE D'AVRAY MONTREUIL, in which are mixed several portions of woods dependent on our domain of MEUDON: And as we propose in the park of MEUDON various changes relative to our hunts, we determined to unite this domain with that of VERSAILLES...".

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