Letter Signed ‘Delessart’, as Minister for the Interior, to M. Dufresne, making funds available for the wages, food and lodging of the mounted constabulary (”la Compagnie de Maréchaussée”) if the Ile de France, with instructions about the payments by French Revolution. LESSART, Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de

Paris, 26 March 1791. In French. 2pp. 12 x 8 inches. In good condition, one fold slightly dusty. Uncommon. Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de Lessart (1741-1792), politician and minister during the French Revolution. On 4 December 1790, he was summoned to the Contrôle général des finances, then on 25 January 1791 moved to the Interior Minister, all the while holding onto the finance portfolio. He was made interim Naval Minister in September 1791 and interim minister of foreign affairs that October. He was indicted under Girondin pressure on 10 March 1792 .In August 1792 he was ordered with other prisoners to Paris for trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal. Claude Fournier-L'Héritier was charged with bringing them as far as Paris, but instead stopped at Versailles and massacred 44 of the 52 prisoners entrusted to him, including De Lessart.