Rare Autograph, Photograph and Manuscript Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/13/2017
Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) bold ink signature from letter or document. was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 as the leader of the Orléanist party. As a member of the cadet branch of the Royal House of France and a cousin of King Louis XVI of France by reason of his descent from their common ancestors Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France, he had earlier found it necessary to flee France during the period of the French Revolution in order to avoid imprisonment and execution, a fate that actually befell his father Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. With original collectors envelope in which it was contained.Also in the lot is a signature of King Franz Joseph Karl (* 12 February 1768 in Florence, † March 2, 1835 in Vienna) from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine was from 1792 to 1806 as Franz II the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire German nation. In 1804 he founded the Austrian Empire, which he ruled as Franz I until his death.
Louis Philippe I & King Franz II
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