[Jura]. LOUIS XVI. Testament, Tour du Temple, December 25, 1 - Lot 184

[Jura]. LOUIS XVI. Testament, Tour du Temple, December 25, 1792. 4 pp. in-4° facsimile. [Followed by] MARIE-ANTOINETTE's "Testament", letter addressed to her sister-in-law, Madame ELISABETH, October 16 [1793] at 4:1/2 a.m., 2 pp. and 4 l. in-4° facsimile. Long-grained red morocco, long flowered spine, titled "facsimile" in gilt, wide gilt frame of pampers on the boards with a fleur-de-lys at the corners, acec in the center the royal arms completed with an ex-dono on the upper board, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt fleur-de-lys lace on the chasses, gilt edges, light blue silk tabis and bookmark. (Contemporary binding). The two facsimiles, on paper watermarked with the arms of Louis XVIII and with his profile, dry-stamped with the arms of Louis XVIII, were offered by the King to Emmanuel JOBEZ, deputy of the Jura department in the Chambre des Députés, Session 1815, as indicated by the two handwritten notes signed by Count DECAZES, Minister, Secretary of State in the Department of General Police; the Will of Louis XVI was offered by order of the King, in Paris, on April 10, 1816, and that of Marie-Antoinette, also in Paris, on March 28, 1816, the latter bearing the red stamp of the Ministère de la Police générale. Jean-Emmanuel JOBEZ (1775-1828), ironmaster and mayor of Morez, was a deputy for the Jura during the Hundred Days, in 1815, from 1815 to 1824 and in 1828, sitting with the Moderates, on the center-left. 3 small wormholes on lower cover. An exceptional document.