European History--Kings and Statesmen

LOUIS XIV. Document signed ("Louis"), countersigned by Colbert, renewing the powers of the governor of the city and château of Brest, 1 page, large oblong folio, on vellum, Versailles, 6 August 1691--VAUBONNE, JOSEPH-PAUL GUIBERT, Marquis de.  Autograph letter signed, probably to Prince Eugene of Savoy, complaining about his loss of privileges ("...mon siegnieur ie suplie de loneur de sa protession pourque ie ne sois pas prostitue de la sorte ce que lon me relache mes apointemon anatandan que lon me peye mes arerages, on que  lon me done a vivre dalieurs iespere se te grase de ses bontes e suis avec un tres profonde respes..."), 4 pages, 4to, [Lombardy], 20 September 1701--MARIA THERESA. Document signed ("Maria Theresa"), concerning the Court Council of War, 1 page, folio, Vienna, 4 September 1767--JOSEPH II. Two large documents signed, one signed also by Zinzendorf & von Lischka, Vienna: 1787 & 1788--together with autograph letters and cards signed by Louis Philippe de Ségur (2: Versailles, 1781), Wilhelm II (1921), Poincare (2: 1926) and others, 8 items in all, tear without loss to the Louis XIV document, splitting to Joseph II document, and some foxing 

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Joseph-Paul Guilbert de Vaubonne (c. 1656-c. 1715) served as commander of the armies of Victor Amédée of Savoy and subsequently for Prince Eugene of Savoy. In September 1701, he was fighting as sergente generale under Prince Eugene of Savoy against the French near Brescia, along the river Oglio, in campaigns that conquered much of the Duchy of Mantua.