Manuscrit autographe intitulé "Requeste singulière de Nosseigneurs les Ducs et Pairs et de Mesdames les Duchesses au Régent"

Autograph manuscript titled Requeste singulière de Nosseigneurs les Ducs et Pairs et de Mesdames les Duchesses au Régent - L'an 1716 ["Singular Request from My Lords the Dukes and Peers and from My Ladies the Duchesses to the Regent - The year 1716"]. Six pages written in black ink, without erasures or corrections.
19th-century binding in half marbled sheep, smooth rubbed spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets, title label along the spine, paste-paper boards stamped at their center with the arms of Adélaïde Édouard Lelièvre de la Grange, marquis de la Grange and de Fourilles [information kindly provided by M. Jérôme-Paul Carré], pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, De Broglie-Dampmartin bookplate pasted on front pastedown. Headcaps absent.
This burlesque petition was transcribed in Les Ruelles du XVIIIème siècle by Labessade in 1879.