JEAN-FREDERIC PHELYPEAUX, COUNT OF MAUREPAS (1701-1781) Lettre de cachet, Marly February 22, 1734 signed by Maurepas to M. de Launay, governor of the Bastille

Asking him to keep in the Bastille, while waiting for the King’s orders, some smugglers who were arrested «with their arms in their hands in the village of Guînes [Pas-de-Calais] and brought to Paris with 44 bales of contraband goods». 2 pp. 23 x 18 cm. In French. Small tears without affecting the reading of the text.