King Louis XVIII Autographed Signed Letter Revolution, Assignats. 1790

  

LOUIS XVIII King of France - Signed autograph letter - Revolution, assignats & Royal Family - 1790. Signed autograph letter "Louis Stanislas Xavier", St. Cloud, September 23, 1790, addressed to Count de Chabrillant, 1 p. 17.5 x 11.5 cm, on a bifolium. Rare document from the future Louis XVIII in the early days of the Revolution, before his emigration in June 1791.

Louis finds support for his criticism of the financial system of assignats in the opinion of Deputy Lebrun, opposed to Mirabeau's plan regarding public debt and assignats (September 1790 in the National Assembly). Lucid, he criticizes the illusion of such a regime and anticipates its difficulties by basing his reflections on the nature of the reforms already carried out and their impact on the finances of the royal family.

] This is the most brilliant and best demonstrated thing I have ever read on this subject and this work justifies well the high opinion I had formed since 1771, of the accuracy of the author's mind and the strength of his character. I would be greatly mistaken if after reading this work, one could still retain any illusion about the assignats [. Le Brun had more time to reflect maturely on the situation of the Count of Artois [his brother, future King Charles X] and mine, he would not have reduced us to 2,000,000 each without mentioning the treatment of our wives and the arrangement of our debts.

De Montesquiou spoke about six months ago, according to Mr. Necker himself, of the 1,000,000 treatment to be set for the King's brothers, it was only about what the Royal Treasury would have to pay them from now on, but apart from that our position remained the same in terms of our estates and acquisitions. But today, as the former are abolished and the lands lose their value due to the abolition of their rights, they would never find a buyer willing to pay what they cost to acquire, thus resulting in a real loss for unfortunate creditors who invested their capital in us, only in the good faith of the capital with which the State had legally invested us. Would it be fair and worthy of the Nation, to assimilate it to the King's brothers by an equal treatment on the public treasury? Includes Lebrun's opinion during the session of the National Assembly on September 5, 1790.

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