BIB_ID
295694
Accession number
MA 892.20
Creator
Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 20.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Empress Eugénie to Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte. Letters are described in individual records (MA 892.1-32).
Written on mourning stationery with a much thicker black edge than the earlier mourning stationery in this collection. Possibly written after her husband's death in 1873.
Written on mourning stationery with a much thicker black edge than the earlier mourning stationery in this collection. Possibly written after her husband's death in 1873.
Summary
Asking him as a favor to look after the bearer of this letter (the bishop of her diocese) while he stays in Rome; saying that her son [Louis Napoléon] sends his best; asking him to pray for them and for France.
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