KING LOUIS XV SIGNED DOCUMENT CITI RICHELIEU 8 PAGES - 1726 König von Frankreich

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KING LOUIS XV SIGNED DOCUMENT CITI OF RICHELIEU - LARGE VELLUM 8 PAGES - 1726
Countersigned
by Jean-Frederic Phelypeux - Secretary of State for the Navy & Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts
the Controller General of Finance
Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts, Count of Saint-Fargeau,
born in 1675 and died on July 11, 1740, is a French statesman. On June 14, 1726, he was appointed Controller General of Finance by Louis XV. His administration is considered brilliant. At the urging of Cardinal Fleury, he initiated the currency stabilization plan that Philibert Orry would pursue after him, and returned to the general farm system. He was forced to resign on March 19, 1730 following an intrigue hatched by Chauvelin about a case concerning the actions of the Compagnie des Indes. He was appointed Minister of State the same year.
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (9 July 1701 – 21 November 1781)
was a French statesman and Count of Maurepas. In 1718 at the age of 17, Jean became the minister of the royal household and Comte de Maurepas under the guardianship of his cousin La Vrillière. Shortly after he married the daughter of his cousin, Marie-Jeanne. Five years later on 16 August he began his duties as ministre de la marine to Louis XV administering the navy, colonies and seaborne trade
Louis XV
(15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled
as King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) on 15 February 1723, the kingdom was ruled by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was his chief minister from 1726 until the Cardinal's death in 1743, at which time the young king took sole control of the kingdom.
His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor and great-grandfather, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Spain and Great Britain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorraine and the Corsican Republic into the Kingdom of France. He was succeeded in 1774 by his grandson Louis XVI, who was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Two of his other grandsons, Louis XVIII and Charles X, occupied the throne of France after the fall of Napoleon I. Historians generally give his reign very low marks, especially as wars drained the treasury and set the stage for the governmental collapse and French Revolution in the 1780s.
Size: 14.4" x 11.4" (36 cm x 29 cm)