Code des commensaux, ou Recueil généal des édits, déclaratio - Lot 146

Code des commensaux, ou Recueil généal des édits, déclarations, ordonnances patentes, arrêts, & règlemens : portant établissement & confirmation des privilèges, privileges, franchises, liberties, immunities, exemptions, ranks, precedence, & honorary rights of the officiers-domestiques & commensaux de la Maison du Roy Paris. Prault père. 1720-1764. 2 volumes in-12, marbled fawn calf, ornate spines. An enthusiast's collection of two successive editions (1720, the second, and 1764) of this legislative collection. collection. Under the Ancien Régime, commensaux were a small group of privileged individuals, generally limited to officers of the King's House and other royal houses, heirs to the medieval medieval privilege of sharing the sovereign's table.