BIB_ID
373926
Accession number
MA 752.2
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
1673 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de St. Quentin commandant / a Campen pour faire tenir a / Monsieur d'Aubigny Gouverneur / d'Elbourg a Elbourg / A Campen."
Letter written to Charles d'Aubigné, brother of Madame de Maintenon.
Numbered "8" in upper right and left corners.
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.
Signed as "F. D'Aubigny."
With trace of a seal.
Writing that M. [François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis] de Louvois has told her that Amsfort would be abandoned and that they would have another government; expressing worry about a siege of the French troops and hoping for peace to arrive soon; hoping to see him in Paris; explaining that "la citadelle de Tournay" is not interesting enough to allow her to write pleasantly about it; writing that she is well and very happy, and that she does not see many people.
Letter written to Charles d'Aubigné, brother of Madame de Maintenon.
Numbered "8" in upper right and left corners.
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.
Signed as "F. D'Aubigny."
With trace of a seal.
Writing that M. [François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis] de Louvois has told her that Amsfort would be abandoned and that they would have another government; expressing worry about a siege of the French troops and hoping for peace to arrive soon; hoping to see him in Paris; explaining that "la citadelle de Tournay" is not interesting enough to allow her to write pleasantly about it; writing that she is well and very happy, and that she does not see many people.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
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