Brevet de Dame de la Société de la Charité... - Lot 274 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

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Brevet de Dame de la Société de la Charité... - Lot 274 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
Brevet de Dame de la Société de la Charité maternelle, printed on vellum in the name of Mme de Chaubry, née Michel, dated 15 December 1811, autograph signatures of Empress Marie-Louise and Cardinal Fesch. 27 x 38 cm France, 1811 Founded in Paris in 1784 to help poor legitimate mothers in order to prevent them from abandoning their children, the Society of Maternal Charity was placed under the protection of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Reorganized under the Empire, it was then placed under the protection of Empress Marie-Louise, her niece. BE
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