Subasta Bidspirit | TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838)

TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838) - TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838) Prince of Talleyrand. French clergyman, politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of France, 1815. D.S., Ch. Mau. Talleyrand , as Minister of Foreign Affairs, one page, folio, Paris, 17 th May 1798, in French. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, states that in virtue of a law passed on 12 th December 1797 a fund of 3,501,688 francs has been made available to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its expenses, and by virtue of a decade-long decision made by the executive board the sum of 300,000 francs has been placed at Talleyrand's disposal for the year 1798, further instructing the commissioners of the National Treasury to make a payment of 50,000 francs for the extraordinary expenses of the ambassador and his establishment in Berlin. Talleyrand approves the payment and declares that the transaction, duly receipted, will be allocated in the accounts of the National Treasury. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG