AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
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Jul 16, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 626:
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE ANTOINE QUENTIN: (1746-1795) French Revolutionary and Prosecutor during the ...
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Sold for: €800
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FOUQUIER-TINVILLE ANTOINE QUENTIN: (1746-1795) French Revolutionary and Prosecutor during the Revolution and Reign of Terror periods. Sentenced to death and guillotined. Rare A.N.S., `Fouquier de Tinville´, four pages, 4to, Paris, 4th March 1778, in French. A rare pre-revolutionary signature in this form, with the noble form `de Tinville´. The document being a report on several minutes referring to the purchase of a house in Paris, ''rue Traversiere, bought by Monsieur Melchior Adam, haberdasher, living at rue des Bouchers St-Honoré, paroisse St. Roch, assisted by maitre Antoine-Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, his attorney at the Chatelet, living in Paris, rue Pavée, paroisse St. Sauveur..´ At the base of the document and in order to certify that the original minutes were all kept by `Monsieur Laudelle, Commissaire´ Fouquier-Tinville annotates `I, the undersigned, prosecutor at the Chatelet and on behalf of M. Adam, certify that the above referred minutes and others, exist and are with commissar Laudelle. Paris, fourth March
´ Overall age wear and creasing, with trimmed edges, not affecting Fouquier´s annotation and signature. G
