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MENUS - Set of 2 manuscripts, ONE SIGNED BY LE COMTE DE PROVENCE, FUTUR LOUIS XVIII. - MENUZ DE LA MAISON DU ROY pour l'annee 1621". 16 pp. in a bound folio; some marginal wetness. List detailing in minute detail (hence the title) the provisions for the various officers and employees of the King's household: grand-master, chamberlains, butlers, valets de chambre, bailiffs, etc. These provisions include bread, butter, wine, beer, etc., as well as other foodstuffs. These include bread, wine and meats. The latter are indicated according to the officers to whom they are to be served, and according to the meals ("disner, antree et potages", "rost", "soupper"): sheep, goats, pigeons, capons, hens, guinea fowl ("poulle d'Inde"), etc. - "MENU GENERAL DE LA MAISON DE MONSEIGNEUR COMTE DE PROVENCE pour l'année mil sept cent soixante-quatorze composée de 365 jours, dont 220 en gras et 145 en maigre". Versailles, April 17, 1774. 68 pp. in-folio in a notebook. Document detailing the provisions needed for the table of the Count of Provence and those of the various officers and civil and military employees of his House: banneterie (bread), échansonnerie (wine), cuisine (meat and fish according to meals and fat or lean days), pâtisserie ("fours" and pâtés), officers' supplies ("salt, vinegar, oranges, lemons, verjuice, spices, sugar, truffles, mushrooms, morels.. herbs..."), wax, wood and coal (for summer and winter), deliveries, etc. On fat days, for example, the prince is served lunch and a broth, dinner (two soups, three starters, two hors d'oeuvres, a rôt), supper (two soups, starters, a rôt), with capons, chickens, hens, partridges, woodcocks, rabbits, game, etc. For leaner days, we use salmon, carp, perch, brill, whitefish, mackerel, sole, smelt, crayfish, cod, etc.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR