Item 8: Payment Order from King Louis XVI of France to Jean-Baptiste Tourteau for Sr. Hollande [French Language] (removed to Black Box #1), 1791 April 6
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Dates
- Created: 1791 April 6
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Payment Order
Condition Note:
Fair; document slightly browning, page beginning to split; ink in good condition; staining
Measurements:
14 ¼ in. x 9 ⅛ in.
Title:
“Six premiers mois 1791” (First six months of 1791)
Description:
The following is an order from King Louis XVI requesting that Jean-Baptiste Tourteau, the General Treasurer of the Civil List, pay two thousand six hundred livres [French pounds] to Sr. Hollande [possibly Louis-Jean Hollande], one of the Queen’s servants, for candles. This document was signed at the Tuileries Palace in Paris on April 6, 1791, because a mob threw the King out of the Palace of Versailles in 1789 towards the beginning of the French Revolution. Very few documents from the Tuileries Palace exist. This document was created very shortly before the King fled the Tuileries and was countersigned by Arnaud II de la Porte. Similar documents exist from July 1791 and December 1791. M. Hollande appears to have been a servant that worked in the chamber of Marie-Antoinette from approximately 1775-1789. Sr. Hollande may have formerly been a musician for the King and upon losing his hearing, was instead moved to the position in the Queen’s chamber. Six men were assigned as servants to the Queen and were charged with lighting, putting out, and replacing the candles throughout her wing of the Palace. The French royals were notorious for wasting a significant amount of candles. Sr. Hollande may have been seeking payment for candles that were in his possession as some servants appear to have received payment for objects in their possession in place of receiving a pension. A similar document exists in which a person named Hollande and working for the Queen received a pension of 400 [livres] in January of 1782. Researchers at the Palace of Versailles have a database in which Sr. Hollande or a relative of his may be identified.
Location:
Paris, France; Tuileries Palace
Transcription:
Au Sr. Hollande
2600 [livres]
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Six premiers mois 1791
Trésorier Général de ma Liste civile, le Sr. Jean-Baptiste Tourteau de Septeuil, payez comptant au Sr Hollande l’un des Garçons de la Chambre de la Reine la Somme de Deux mille Six cent livres pour l’indemnites[sic] [l'indemnité] du retour Suprimé[sic] [Supprimé] des Bougies auquel il avoit[sic] [avait] droit et ce pour le six premier mois de 1791. à raison de 3200. par an. fait à Paris le 6. avril 1791.
Louis [signature] - quatre vingt dix huit
M(?)
Par le Roi La Porte [signature]
Translation Attempt: To Sieur Hollande 2600 [livres] First six months of 1791 Treasurer-General of my Civil List, Sr. Jean-Baptiste Tourteau de Septeuil, pay cash to Sieur Hollande, one of the Boys of the Bedroom of the Queen, the sum of two thousand six hundred [French] livres [pounds] for compensation for the canceled return of the candles to which he was entitled for the first six months of 1791 at the rate of 3200 [French livres/pounds] annually. Done/executed in Paris the 6th of April 1791. Louis [signature] - ninety eight
By the King, La Porte [Signature]
Par le Roi La Porte [signature]
Translation Attempt: To Sieur Hollande 2600 [livres] First six months of 1791 Treasurer-General of my Civil List, Sr. Jean-Baptiste Tourteau de Septeuil, pay cash to Sieur Hollande, one of the Boys of the Bedroom of the Queen, the sum of two thousand six hundred [French] livres [pounds] for compensation for the canceled return of the candles to which he was entitled for the first six months of 1791 at the rate of 3200 [French livres/pounds] annually. Done/executed in Paris the 6th of April 1791. Louis [signature] - ninety eight
By the King, La Porte [Signature]
Creator
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