[Nicolas Patouillet (Salins 1622 (or 1633... - Lot 325 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

[Nicolas Patouillet (Salins 1622 (or 1633 according to Sommervogel) - 1710)]. Autograph manuscript (draft) on the manuscript of a supplication to the King. 4 pp. in-folio. Supplication of the States of Franche-Comté to Louis XIV for the preservation of their privileges. After the definitive conquest of Franche-Comté over Spain, the province tried to preserve its institutions and in particular its particular states general as Brittany, Languedoc or even the Duchy of Burgundy had. Hence this plea to Louis XIV in which Fr. Patouillet had to take part as editor or deputy. "The clerks elected at the last assembly of the Estates General of the county of Burgundy represent in the deepest respect to V M that the province has always had the custom of holding its Estates General and that when His M. conquered it, the supplicants carried out their duties which were in some way interrupted during the time of war. But now that His Majesty, in giving peace to the whole of Europe, the province has fortunately remained under its domination by the treaty of peace which was made with Spain, and that afterwards all the bodies have sworn an oath of fidelity in the hands of the Duke of Duras, governor of the province, the supplicants resort to the kindness of V. M. to beg her very humbly to allow them to continue the exercise of their duties as they had always done in 1668 when V. M. conquered the county and since then up to the last conquest, while waiting for him to order the holding of the Estates General. Then they granted by the capitulation of the town of Dôle in 1668 that the province would remain in all its rights and specifically in the eastern part of the county and that the commissions dependent on it would last until the first tenure of the Estates [] ". The argumentation develops in several points and concludes: "That this right to estre pays d'Estat has always been consecrated by the State.