Louis XVI. Letter signed ("Louis"), in French, 1 page (7.75 x 6 in.; 197 x 152 mm.), Paris, 28 February 1792, to Mathieu Phili...

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Louis XVI. Letter signed ("Louis"), in French, 1 page (7.75 x 6 in.; 197 x 152 mm.), Paris, 28 February 1792, to Mathieu Philibert Sicard. Louis XVI. Letter signed ("Louis"), in French, 1 page (7.75 x 6 in.; 197 x 152 mm.), Paris, 28 February 1792, to Mathieu Philibert Sicard. Louis XVI issues a letter of commendation where he still implored the recipient to be always faithful to the Nation, the Law and the King. Louis XVI writes in part: You have...courageously defended and mightily helped to save the life of a citizen on the 27th of November last at Brest. I thought that such an act of civic duty and gallantry should not remain unrewarded. I give you a gold medal, upon which I have had engraved an inscription, recording the beautiful deed you performed. Be always faithful to the Nation, the Law and the King. Louis XVI has presented this gold medal in the capacity of constitutional king, which office he assumed the preceding year on September 13, after he had been arrested in Varennes, following his attempted flight from Paris on June 20, and return to the city, and in spite of documents which he left proving his opposition to the whole revolution. The turbulent events of the revolution included an opposing party, which plotted Louis XVI's deposition; this was crushed for a time, but the party gained strength during the winter of 1791-1792, and by April 1792, the Reign of Terror began to escalate. The invasion of the Tuileries on the 20th of June 1792 was but the prelude to the conspiracy which resulted, on the 10th of August, in the capture of the palace and the 'suspension' of royalty by the Legislative Assembly until the convocation of the national convention in September. On the 21st of September 1792 the Convention declared royalty abolished and in January it tried the king for his treason against the nation, and condemned him to death. He was executed on the 21st of January 1793. Together with: Louis XIV. Letter with secretarial signature, in French, 1 page (13.75 x 19 in.; 349 x 483 mm.), Paris, 30 November 1644, to Pope Urban VIII; some soiling and staining. The young King of France to Pope Urban VIII asking for consent of a marriage. The document reads in full: Having learned that the parent of my cousin the Marquis d'Asserac and Damoiselle de Rieux his [sister] have been anxious to settle the legal proceedings in which both Houses are involved, regarding tutelary share-outs and other matters concerning the House of Rieux, which is the second House in Brittany, as well as the preservation of the name and arms of this illustrious House, whose the said Sieur d'Asserac is the head, and expecting that if the said House contracted marriage with another House, it would have difficulty maintaining itself as a whole, and would thus be in danger of getting dismembered and vanishing on the occasion of legal proceedings and share-outs, and since we ardently wish that this marriage may take place, for the preservation of the said House--especially since those who are descended from it have the honor of belonging to our family--as well as for the particular interest we have in the said Sieur d'Asserac, whom we have found a devoted champion of our Roman Catholic and Apostolic Religion for he took arms and distinguished himself during the war against the heretics, applying himself vigorously to imitating his ancestors , incurred great expenses to maintain the Isle Dieu against the attempts made by the said heretics, and continued to imitate his ancestors who founded a great number of monasteries and did the churches of our Country of Brittany much good. Therefore, for all those considerations, we are writing to Your Holiness ...the Queen Regent née Most Respected Lady and Mother, begging you most fondly that yours will be such that you consent to this marriage and see fit that it be celebrated, and ask you to be kind enough to grant them and send in secret all the necessary dispensations, which will give us a deep satisfaction and for which favor we will be grateful to Your Holiness, praying God that he may grant you many more years for the sake and benefit of this Church...