Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette cash journal, 1788-1793, 1932.

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette cash journal, 1788-1793, 1932.

Cash journal (1788-1793) for the royal household kept by M. Le Roy, cashier of the General Treasury of the House of the King and Queen, and audited and signed regularly each month by Marc Antoine François Marie Randon de la Tour, administrator of the public treasury. Also included are four other related French documents from this period and a photocopy of a 1932 article from a New Orleans newspaper describing the journal.

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La Tour, Marc Antoine François Marie Randon de, 1736-1794.

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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793

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Marie Antoinette (b. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, Nov. 2 1755, Vienna, Austria–d. Oct. 16, 1793, Paris, France) was the last queen of France. The daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, her parents and King Louis XV of France arranged a marrage between her and his grandson, Louis-Auguste, later Louis XVI. They were married May 16, 1770 at Versailles; Marie Antoinette became queen in 1774. Known for her oppulance and lavish spending, she was convicted of high treason during French Revo...