AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
Dec 3, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 1274:

[LOUIS XVIII] - DINNER: (1755-1824) King of France 1814-15 & 1815-24. A curious manuscript document, being the ...

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[LOUIS XVIII] - DINNER: (1755-1824) King of France 1814-15 & 1815-24. A curious manuscript document, being the King´s lunch and dinner menu, two pages, folio, 2nd & 3rd March 1823, in French. The document entitled `The King´s Dinner, 2nd March 1823´, lists eighteen different dishes for the dinner and for the day after lunch, including `Le turbot sauce au beure(sic)…L´allote(sic) grillié(sic)… a l´oseille, Les filets de soles… les filets de carlet frit, Le saumon grillié sauce poivrade…. La queue de saumon, La blanquette au trufes, … Les filets de carlet a la Parisienne.. Les betraves a la Lyonnaise, Les navais glassés au sucre, Les Petits pois d´asperches, Les Rotis au vin de Madere…´ (''Turbot with butter sauce… Grilled monkfish with sorrel, sole fillets… fried flounder fillets, Grilled salmon with pepper sauce…. Salmon tail, Blanquette with truffles… Flounder fillets Parisienne... Beets Lyonnaise, Turnips glazed with sugar, Asparagus peas, Rotis with Madeira wine..'') Very slightly trimmed left edge, and uneven lower edge. Small overall minor age toning, mostly to borders, otherwise G

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