LOUIS XVI AUTOGRAPH - LETTER OF EXEMTION FROM ALLIANCE FOR L.E. RESSEGUIER 1778

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"KING LOUIS XV AUTOGRAPH - LETTER OF EXMPTION FROM ALLIANCE FOR L. E. RESSEGUIER" who sells the office of advocate general to the court of the Parliament of Toulouse, whose president Daguin is his brother-in-law
Countersigned by the Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou at Versailles on December 31, 1778
Size: 18.3" x 10.8" (46.5 cm x 27.5 cm) , Signed
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou
(19 November 1732 – 20 April 1795, the 1st of Floreal in year III of the Revolutionary calendar) was a French politician.
The son of Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou and Marie Anne de
Vougny, he held a number of positions throughout his political career. He was a
maître des requêtes (master of requests) in 1753, president of the Grand
Conseil and an esteemed intendant of Bourgogne in 1764, intendant of finances in 1774, Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi from May 12, 1776, to November 18, 1783. He was a commander of the Order of the Saint-Esprit. He married Françoise Marie Legendre and the couple had two daughters, Marie Catherine (born 1762) and Jeanne Marie (born 1764) who became "comtesse de La Ferté" through marriage.
Amelot de Chaillou became an honorary member of the Academie
Royale des Sciences on April 16, 1777, and became vice-president of the
Academy in 1778, president in 1779, and honorary member after the
reorganization on April 23, 1785. He was also made an honorary member of the Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1777.
Amelot de Chaillou was arrested, like many nobles, in 1792 and (he
died in the Luxembourg prison in 1795; his son, Antoine Léon, the
intendant of Bourgogne from 1783 to 1790 made it through the Revolution mostly
unscathed.
Louis-Emmanuel- Elisabeth de Rességuier
, Marquis de Mire-Mont, Advocate General, then Attorney General in Parliament 1788, participates that same year in the assembly of notables of Versailles, and the following year at the assemblies of the nobility of Toulouse
Louis XVI
King of France and Navarre
Reign
10 May 1774 –4 September 1791
Coronation
11 June 1775
Predecessor
Louis XV
King of the French
Reign
4 September 1791 –10 August 1792
Proclamation
30 September 1791
Successor
Provisional Executive Council Monarchy abolished National Convention
Born
23 August 1754 Palace of Versailles, France
Died
21 January 1793 (aged 38) Place de la Révolution, Paris,France
Burial
21 January 1815
Basilica of St Denis, north of Paris
Spouse
Marie Antoinette
Issue
Marie Thérèse of France
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
Louis XVII of France
Princess Sophie
Full name
Louis Auguste de France
House
Bourbon
Father
Louis, Dauphin of France
Mother
Maria Josepha of Saxony
Religion
Roman Catholicism