BIB_ID
374112
Accession number
MA 752.24
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1684-1703?] July 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le Comte d'Aubig[né] / Colonel du Regiment royal, / infanterie brigadier des armée[s] / du Roy En Flandre."
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 place of writing, the Château de Marly, was not completed until 1684; the letter must have been written after this date but before the death of the Comte d'Aubigné in 1703.
With trace of a seal.
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 place of writing, the Château de Marly, was not completed until 1684; the letter must have been written after this date but before the death of the Comte d'Aubigné in 1703.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Writing that she feels better about the battles after reading his letter; asking him to tell M. le m[aréch]al de Villars [Claude Louis Hector, duc de Villars] that she has not written him so as not to take up his time; requesting that he give 100 francs to M. de Ribauville so that he may eat meat; asking him to tell de Lisle, whom she thinks her brother knows, to whom he should give this money.
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