Physical description: Ms. on vellum, 1 sheet. 73.5 x 58 cm., folded. Seals.

Item note: Polignac, Auguste Jules Armand Marie, comte de, fl. 1816."Sold by Thomas Crispe, Law Stationer, Chancery Lane" engr. on initial.Among The Right Honorable Auguste Iules Armand Marie Count of Polignac (Languedoc; Peer of France; 2d son of the Right Honourable Armand Jules François Duke of Polignac, Peer of France, by Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastran, Duchess of Polignac); Barbara Campbell (Middlesex; spinster); Evan Baillie (Inverness); and The Honorable James Murray (Perth), Archibald Macdonald (Middlesex), James Macdonald (Surrey), Reginald George Macdonald (Inverness); signed "Le Cte jules de Polignac" "Bar. Campbell" "Evan Baillie" "Iames Murray" "Archd. Macdonald" "James Macdonald" and "R. G. Macdonald."Armand Jules François Polignac, Duc de Polignac (1745-1817) married Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron (c. 1749-1793). They acquired large pensions as a result of Polastron's friendship with Marie Antoinette; their extravagance a direct cause of the revolution, they fled to the Ukraine in 1789. Their son, Auguste Jules Armand Marie, comte (later Prince) de Polignac (1780-1847), ultraroyalist politician, became intimate with the Comte d'Artois in 1814 and later held office under the Bourbon restoration.

Original digital object name: bei-m485c

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