Louis XVI, King of France. - [the Abolition of Hereditary Titles Following the French Revolution]: Lettres Patentes Du Roi, Sur Un Decret de L'Assemblee Nationale, Qui Abolit la Noblesse Hereditaire, Et Porte Que Les Titres de Prince, de Duc, de Comte, Marquis Et Autres Titres Semblables, Ne Seront Pris Par Qui Que Ce Soit, Ni Donnes a Personne. Donnees a Paris, le 23 Juin 1790.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. 1790. - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide. Unbound self-wraps, with stab marks along the left edge and numbers penned in an early hand at the top right corner of each page. 3 pages on attractive watermarked paper, with a handsome engraved pictorial headpiece at the head of the first page. There is offsetting to the top front corner of the first leaf and some light creasing. Very good. Signed in print "Louis. Et plus bas, Par le Roi, Guignard." On August 26, 1789, France's National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which declared that "Men are born free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good." Although the articles did not specifically address the abolition of the nobility, the Assembly took up the subject in their subsequent June 19, 1790 meeting which declared the abolition of hereditary titles. SCARCE. Very good .

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