BIB_ID
374110
Accession number
MA 752.22
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1717] July 17.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.1 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.
Possibly signed with an initial.
With postmark ("DEVERSAILLES") and 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.
Possibly signed with an initial.
With postmark ("DEVERSAILLES") and seal; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Criticizing the decision to no longer accord to M. [Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc] d[e] Maine and M. [Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon], comte de [Toulouse] "les honeurs qu'on leur rendoit" [their title of Princes du sang, given to them by their father, Louis XIV, in 1714]; writing that M. [Philippe], duc [d'Orléans] has ordered officers to no longer honor them; recounting that M. [Louis de Rochechouart], duc de Mortemar[t] tried to challenge this policy; explaining that M. François de Neufville], ma[récha]l de Villero[i] found the Regent [Philippe d'Orléans] and informed him of the complaint, prompting him to order that the princes keep their previous honors; doubting that the Regent will maintain this position and not strip the princes of their titles again; writing of the ill health of "nostre mere" and her own; recounting that M. [l'abbé] Briderey is ill but that there is hope.
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