BIB_ID
107975
Accession number
MA 24.17
Display Date
1667 Aug. 12.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 34.6 cm
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Document is signed by François Bossuet, Elisabeth Bossuet, and Armand Leon Le Bouthillier de Chavigny.
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, giving biographical information about François Bossuet and explaining the document.
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, giving biographical information about François Bossuet and explaining the document.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
François Bossuet, a cousin of the bishop Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, is selling Villers-les-pots (an estate) to his daughter, Elisabeth Bossuet, and her husband, Armand Leon Le Bouthillier de Chavigny, as payment of her dowry.
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