BIB_ID
303601
Accession number
MA 303.50
Creator
Mercy-Argenteau, Florimond-Claude, comte de, 1727-1794.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased from Countess Mercy-Argenteau, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Note in pencil at head of letter written by the Comte de La Marck, Prince Auguste d'Arenberg, as identified by a passage in the hand of his former secretary, [Staedtler?].
Part of a collection of autograph letters to the Comte de La Marck. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters to the Comte de La Marck. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Countess Mercy-Argenteau through Goldthwaite in 1904.
Summary
Discussing his premonitions (as early as 1786) about the advent of the French Revolution and his thoughts on how such circumstances were to be analyzed and dealt with; regretting that his point of view was not adopted since many of his conjectures came true; making a note to himself to share advice with future monarchs on what may come of the French system and how to manage it before all the rulers are overthrown.
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