BIB_ID
374100
Accession number
MA 752.16
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1716] Oct. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur l'Archevesque de / Rouen a Rouen."
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.
The year of the date has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
With postmark ("DEVERSAILLES") and trace of a seal; place of writing is from postmark.
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.
The year of the date has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
With postmark ("DEVERSAILLES") and trace of a seal; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Explaining that she has had a letter from [Louis-François,] C[omte] d'Aubigné concerning the weaning of his son; writing that they have followed the advice of [Julien] Cl[é]ment [Court doctor specializing in obstetrics]; discussing the advantages and disadvantages of weaning a child, particularly with regard to the strength and teeth of d'Aubigné's son; worrying that they [his parents?] may be "trop attachés"; mentioning her pity for M. et Mme. de Ch[â]tillon; writing that she is taking quinquina and that it is helping her stomach; discussing her stomach complaint; writing that M. le duc de Noailles [Adrien-Maurice de Noailles] has suffered from kidney pains ("colique nepretique") and that he was bled and put into a bath for three hours; stating that she is awaiting the return of the man she sent to Paris in order to send news to the Archbishop; recounting that she is well and that her Superior lives up to his standards; hoping that his brother will be in Paris or in Gaillon; writing in post scriptum that her messager has returned and the duc de N[oailles] is better; mentioning "un arrest qui condamne tous les deux partis au silence."
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