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Autograph letter : place not specified, to the Duc de Beauvilliers, [169-?].

BIB_ID
107592
Accession number
MA 24.25
Creator
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.
Display Date
[169-?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Bossuet and Fénelon; see collection record (MA 24) for more information.
Prefaced by a note from Eugène Levesque, editor of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet's letters, explaining that the letter is about the education of the Duc de Bourgogne.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Discussing the piety of Louis of France, Duc de Bourgogne. Louis was the grandson of Louis XIV; Fénelon was his tutor and the Duc de Beauvilliers was his governor.