Record ID:
373913
Accession number:
MA 752.1
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes:
Signed as "F. D'Aubigny."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Madame de Maintenon to various relatives and friends. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 752 for details.
Summary:
Writing that she has received from M. [Philippe de Valois, marquis] de Villette[-Mursay] a copy of the marriage contract "du batard de mon grand pere," a record regarding the holdings at Surimeau and Mursay, thirty-two letters written by her mother [Jeanne de Cardilhac] to M. [Benjamin] de Villette [father of the current marquis], a "confiscation" made to M. [Agrippa] d'Aubign[é] [grandfather of Madame de Maintenon] by Henry IV; explaining that she will return all of these items to him whenever he wishes.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
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