[JULY REVOLUTION.]
Habitans de Paris, les députés de la France, en ce moment réunis à Paris, m’ont exprimé le desir que je me rendisse dans cette capitale pour y exercer les fonctions de Lieutenant-Général du Royaume … Louis-Philippe d’Orléans. [Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July 1830].
Printed broadside (275 x 215 mm), 20 lines of text; creases from folding, some foxing.
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Habitans de Paris, les députés de la France, en ce moment réunis à Paris, m’ont exprimé le desir que je me rendisse dans cette capitale pour y exercer les fonctions de Lieutenant-Général du Royaume … Louis-Philippe d’Orléans.
A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s famous proclamation of 31 July 1830 accepting the position of Lieutenant-Général du Royaume in the wake of the July Revolution. Just days later Charles X would abdicate, and Louis Philippe would be proclaimed King of the French. Less than eighteen years later, Louis Philippe himself would renounce the throne following the 1848 Revolution.
The Parisian printer Amédée Guyot (1798–1873) published the Almanach royal, and served as the king’s printer in the 1840s.
Provenance: brought back from Paris by the eminent medical jurist and toxicologist Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880). The young Taylor was in Paris during the July Revolution and studied gunshot wounds and their treatment by the surgeons Jacques Manec and Jacques Lisfranc at La Pitié hospital.