Denis-Pierre-Jean PAPILLON DE LA FERTÉ (1727-1794) Intendant - Lot 315

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Denis-Pierre-Jean PAPILLON DE LA FERTÉ (1727-1794) Intendant - Lot 315
Denis-Pierre-Jean PAPILLON DE LA FERTÉ (1727-1794) Intendant of the Menus Plaisirs of Louis XV and Louis XVI, commissioner of the King to the Academy of Music, collector, condemned to death by the Revolutionary Court. 3 L.A.S. and 1 L.A., Paris August-October 1793, to citizen ANNAT, janitor of his castle of Annel (Oise), or to his cousin citizen [Du Mont de] CHILLOIS, in Annel; 13 pages in-4, 3 addresses. Urgent instructions for the destruction of the coats of arms in his castle, after the decree of the Convention of August 1 "which orders the confiscation within a week, for the benefit of the Nation, of the houses & other buildings bearing coats of arms". La Ferté advises to keep these letters to prove, if necessary, his efforts to conform to the law. August 4. Annat will have the fleurs-de-lys removed from the clock hands, and "put the arms on the gate by removing the iron escutcheons where the arms are marked [...]. Be careful to see if there would not be on the farm at the door some coats of arms of Mr. Pannetier; in the same way at the chapel: the inhabitants will do well to remove the coats of arms of Mde d'Epinois which were on their old altar"... October 11. Explanation to his cousin of the instructions given to Annat, with some additional indications concerning decorations likely to attract the eye of inspectors of the "revolutionary army", because "nothing must be neglected of all that can prove our civic-mindedness"... October 25. Let Annat erase weapons on silver plates, and wait for the visit quietly: "You can even, if you believe it necessary to destroy the whole paintings, that is to say the oil paintings, [...If there were some fleurs-de-lis in the frames of the two large paintings that were in the two rooms, which I do not believe, you will erase them, as well as what is written at the bottom; there will only be to pass some pumice stone over them, and then to stick some gold paper"... That he sends her his portraits - "I will have the red cord removed here, even though it is not ordered" -, that he crushes with a hammer the stamps with his arms, and that he covers the books with his arms in the library as an extra precaution, "because it is decided at the assembly that the books and prints will be left in the state they are in"... October 28. Instructions to his cousin for his lease records and tax notices paid: "we have only eight days to make our declarations without that I would run the greatest risks for the little fortune that remains to me"... Useless to remove the fence grills... "with regard to the cord which is painted in my portraits I willingly sacrifice the representation of it, since I made without difficulty the sacrifice of the reality", and in the same way, the cross of Saint Louis in the painting "of the famous painter Vanloo", and the cord of his porcelain bust: "one can break it, or bury it"... A handwritten note is attached: "N° 1217. 19 messidor year 2. Judgment of the revolutionary court pronouncing a death sentence against M. de La Ferté".
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