Claude-Antoine de VALDEC DE LESSART (1741–1792), minister. 7 letters, 1791–1792; 20 pages, folio size (ink seals from the Le Métayer Masselin collection). 1791, as Minister of the Interior. – January 28, to the gentlemen of the Seine-et-Oise department, regarding public works and compulsory labor… – June 28, concerning road construction and taxes. – July 22, regarding the primary assemblies in Nantes. 1791–1792, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Barthélemy. – December 31, concerning the Elector of Mainz and the presence of émigrés in his domain… – February 29, regarding the *Gazette de France* and the bulletins to be sent to him on “political, economic, and literary news”… – March 4 and 6, concerning the Elector of Mainz and the Court of Vienna. Enclosed is a pamphlet from the Society of Friends of the Constitution, containing Claude Fauchet’s denunciation of de Lessart (February 1792).