TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838) French Diplomat and Statesman. Prime

TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838) French Diplomat and Statesman. Prime

TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD CHARLES MAURICE DE: (1754-1838) French Diplomat and Statesman. Prime Minister of France July-September 1815. An interesting L.S., `Ch Mau Talleyrand«, two pages, folio, 1st of December 1798, to the French finance Minister, in French. The document bears at the heading an attractive French Republic monogramme, and Talleyrand in his capacity as Minister of foreign affairs sends a request to his colleague the finance Minister, stating in part `The Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Helvetic Republic in Paris has sent to me a petitionÉ requesting permission to export to the Helvetic Republic approximately eighty thousand fabric rolls of Nankin which are actually in deposit at the Bordeaux customs warehouses, all derived from the taking obtained from the enemy by the Republic..« With a contemporary receipt annotation at the heading. The document bears a large attractive watermark and the year 1794. Small overall minor age wear and a small tear to the upper edge, otherwise VG £100-150 Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret (1760-1829) French Politician. Finance minister 1796-99. Ramel de Nogaret was forced into exile in Belgium in 1816 where he died without ever returning to France.