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Étienne-François, duc de CHOISEUL (1719-1785) Minister of Foreign Affairs. P.S., Versailles May 25, 1776; 13pages in-fol. on wove paper in quire (1st f. detached). Extract from the registers of the King's Conseil d'État, outlining the execution of the charge assigned by the Minister of War in 1762 to Sieurs Alexis-Louis Sainctmarc, Jean-Baptiste Boyer de Saint-Laurent, and three other munitionnaires from the southern provinces, to act as stewards to his auxiliary troops in Spain, due to move to Portugal with the army of His Catholic Majesty: supply operations at the camp under Bayonne and as far as Valladolid, in munition bread; "extraordinary and expensive" means used to obtain wheat from the inhabitants; need to dismiss superfluous employees; submission of accounts, etc.

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Étienne-François, duc de CHOISEUL (1719-1785) Minister of Foreign Affairs. P.S., Versailles May 25, 1776; 13pages in-fol. on wove paper in quire (1st f. detached). Extract from the registers of the King's Conseil d'État, outlining the execution of the charge assigned by the Minister of War in 1762 to Sieurs Alexis-Louis Sainctmarc, Jean-Baptiste Boyer de Saint-Laurent, and three other munitionnaires from the southern provinces, to act as stewards to his auxiliary troops in Spain, due to move to Portugal with the army of His Catholic Majesty: supply operations at the camp under Bayonne and as far as Valladolid, in munition bread; "extraordinary and expensive" means used to obtain wheat from the inhabitants; need to dismiss superfluous employees; submission of accounts, etc.

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