Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres / inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre circa 1740.

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Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres / inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre circa 1740.

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Holograph of a proposal, addressed to King Louis XV of France, to create 400 hereditary offices with the title Maréchaux des logis tresoriers inspecteurs. Their principal functions would include collecting and disbursing all funds for the maintenance and subsistence of the troops, with which they would serve, in order to prevent abuses from occurring to the disadvantage of the king; reporting regularly to the secretary of state of the Département de la guerre; and performing all the functions of majors and assistant medical officers except those of a purely military nature and those which concern the service and discipline of the troops.

1 v. ([6], XIX, 84, [5] p.) ; 25 cm.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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