BIB_ID
374146
Accession number
MA 752.29
Display Date
[1688-1703?] Sept. 22.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le Comte d'Aubigné / Lieutenant general des armées du Roy / ... / A Paris."
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.
With seal.
Written after Charles d'Aubigné received the title of Comte d'Aubigné (1688), and prior to his death in 1703.
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.
With seal.
Written after Charles d'Aubigné received the title of Comte d'Aubigné (1688), and prior to his death in 1703.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Writing that she misses him and gently reproaching him for not sending news sooner; attempting to convince him to "prendre l'air" for his health; explaining that she will leave for [?] on the second or third of October, and thence for Gallion; relating that she may stop at Bissy if she is invited; advising him not to go to the country because of the lateness of the season; choosing not to send news of the army because everything she knows is outdated; asking about his children; requesting that he send her [?]; mentioning la Saint-Martin [and a possible journey?].
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