AMNESTY FOR DESERTERS (1758). Ordonnance du Roi, Pour permettre aux Soldats, Cavaliers & Dragons, qui ont deserte avant le premier Fevrier 1757, de sengager indistinctement dans toutes les Troupes de Sa Majeste, pour jouir de lAmnistie. Du dixieme Juillet mil sept cent cinquante-huit. De Par Le Roi. (Ordinance of the King, to allow Soldiers, Horsemen, and Mounted Infantrymen who deserted before the 1st of February 1757, to engage indiscriminately in all the Troops of His Majesty, and to enjoy Amnesty. 10 July 1758. By the King.)

SEVEN YEARS WAR. France. King Louis XV.

Verlag: A Grenoble: de Imprimerie de la Veuve Andre Faure, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi, rue de Palais, 1758

Beschreibung

Broadside (20.5 inches x 16.5 inches). In French. Text printed in two columns, separated by a line. Woodcut Royal Emblem at head of sheet, and woodcut initial. Contemporary manuscript number at top corner of recto and contemporary manuscript notations and signatures on verso. Folded to 10.5 inches x 5 inches with contemporary docket inscription (dated 1758). Untrimmed, retaining the original deckled edges. A few tiny wormholes affecting blank areas. By this Royal Ordonnance of 10 July 1758, King Louis XV boldly forgave mutineers and invited them back into the French armed forces by granting unconditional amnesty to anyone who had deserted prior to February 1757. The penalty for desertion was death; it seems there must have been a desperate need for troops (especially so for the planned campaign on Germany) in order to waive this most ancient of fundamental and strict military rules. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 038

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Titel: AMNESTY FOR DESERTERS (1758). Ordonnance du ...

Verlag: A Grenoble: de Imprimerie de la Veuve Andre Faure, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi, rue de Palais

Erscheinungsdatum: 1758

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition