LOUIS XV (1710-1774). P.S. (secretary), Versailles... - Lot 282 - Ader

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LOUIS XV (1710-1774). P.S. (secretary), Versailles... - Lot 282 - Ader
LOUIS XV (1710-1774). P.S. (secretary), Versailles December 1755; countersigned by Marc-Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson and Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville; vellum broadside with painted coat of arms, green and red silk cords. Letters of nobility for Jacques Daran (1701-1784), surgeon of the King. Louis XV grants the nobility "to our dear and beloved Jacques Daran, one of our surgeons serving by quarter, and one of the members of our Royal Academy of Surgery of our good City of Paris"... He recounts his apprenticeship in Italy with the greatest masters, then his career, in Italy and in France: his service with the King of Sardinia Victor-Amédée, then in Milan and Messina, where the Prince of Villefranche "reluctantly gave him the job of Surgeon Major of his regiment", and where he was confronted with the terrible plague epidemic that spared only one-sixth of its inhabitants: In vain Daran sought "a remedy for this disastrous disease; he realized that his cure could not be the work of men"... He tells how, failing to cure the plague, Daran organized a quarantine on a tartan from Marseille, out to sea for a month, etc. He then recounts Daran's many successes in the Kingdom as well as in Europe and the Colonies, etc. Coat of arms painted in the center of the document.
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