Jacques de Flesselles — Provost of the Merchants of Paris, shot on 14 July 1789 — (V.A.P.)

Description

Engraved portrait in bust of a man in 18th-century costume, framed in an oval. The reverse contains a handwritten inscription describing his death: born in 1721, he was appointed Provost of the Merchants of Paris on 14 July 1789, then shot by the mob. The publisher (V.A.P.) is mentioned at the bottom of the front and back.