REF: 9749

Marshal d'Entrées and LA de Bourbon grant funds to the Navy.

Victor Marie Estrées (d') (Paris, 1660/1737)
Marshal of France, President of the Council of the Navy (1715) and Minister of State (1727). Member of the Academy of Sciences (1707) and of the French Academy (1715).
Louis Alexandre Bourbon (de) (Versailles, 1678/1737)
Count of Toulouse, natural son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

Document type: signed letter

Number of documents: 1 - Number of pages: 1 - Format: In-folio

Location: Paris

Date : 20/06/1716

Recipient: Mr. Le Couturier

Condition: some foxing, small trace of old label.

Description :
Letter jointly signed by Marshal d'Entrées and Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, concerning the allocation of funds to pay the naval engineers. "The Council has reported this to the Regent, who wishes to authorize a fund of 14,850 livres to cover their salaries for this year. The Council requests that you take His Royal Highness's orders to immediately assign one-third of this sum to the Treasurer General of Fortifications so that he may pay four months' salaries to… Read more

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