VAL D’OISE. 1814. Contemporary copy of the deed of donation - Lot 408

VAL D’OISE. 1814. Contemporary copy of the deed of donation of an annuity of 250 francs by Mr. De PROVIGNY to the parish of VALMONDOIS (95), registered in Beaumont on September 24, 1814. Manuscript, 4 pages, ¼ in-4°: “Before André Denis DAMBRY, Royal Notary of L’Ile-Adam, appeared Mr. Jean André de PROVIGNY, member of the Electoral College of the department of Seine-et-Oise, Mayor of Valmondois, residing there at his home in Orgivaux, who, with the intention of perpetuating the memory of the feelings of joy that the inhabitants of Valmondois—former vassals of HIS LORDSHIP, then Count of Provence, due to his estate at L’Ile-Adam, and now LOUIS XVIII, King of France and Navarre, had expressed upon the return to France of the House of Bourbon… in order to commemorate the day when a Te Deum was sung in theChurch of Valmondois a Te Deum in thanksgiving for an event as memorable as it was unexpected, and wishing further to renew every year the memorial service celebrated in Valmondois in atonement for the deaths of LOUIS XVI and Marie-Antoinette… Mr. de Provigny donates to the parish council of the Church of Valmondois an annual and perpetual annuity of 250 francs… ”

Estimation:€150

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