BIB_ID
373978
Accession number
MA 752.14
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1716 Apr.11].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 16.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur l'Archevesque / de Rouen."
Date "avril 1716" has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
Letter mentions that Easter is the following day. In 1716, Easter occurred on April 12.
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.
Date "avril 1716" has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
Letter mentions that Easter is the following day. In 1716, Easter occurred on April 12.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Writing that she has a fever and a cold; mentioning that M. [Guy-Crescent] Fagon [physician to Louis XIV] is worried about her; inviting the Archbishop to visit her at the convent, "au parloir," because she has things to discuss with him; explaining that he should not come tomorrow because she does not want to open the convent on Easter; asking him to come another day before or after Vespers.
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