Lot 258
Louis XIII (1601-1643), King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643. Document Signed "Louis", one page on vellum, irregularly shaped, approximately 16 x 7, 1613. Official document relating to an administrative order, in French, untranslated, countersigned by Louis Potier, Baron de Gesvies, Secretary of the King. Above Potier's signature reads "Regente sa mere presente" [meaning Marie de Medici, Louis XIII's mother, was present]. Reverse heavily soiled with significant creasing, especially at far right, cut in at angle bottom right, otherwise Good.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
Beginning in 1560, a separate council was created to handle financial affairs: the "Conseil des finances"; around 1600 this council was reunited with the state council as "Conseil d'État et des finances". The "Conseil d'État et des finances" lost its prestige during the reign of Louis XIII and ended as a supreme court for legal disputes concerning royal administration and appeals on decisions from sovereign courts concerning finances and taxation. By the late 17th Century, the council's role as adjudicator in administrative disputes was subsumed by the "Conseil d'État privé" and its financial oversight was largely taken over by the later "Conseil royal des finances" and by the Controller-General of Finances.
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