BIB_ID
404296
Accession number
MA 4644.69
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 September 18.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / Recommended to Mr. Robothom / at the General Post office in / Lombard street / England / London." A note has been added beneath this address but it is illegible.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 7 / 18, 1708.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 7 / 18, 1708.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Sending news of the military situation in Flanders; writing that the French forces bombarded the enemy's entrenchments for a day, but then pulled back in the face of the reponse: "the report of the Deserters, who sayd that the Duke of Burgundy was gone through all the rangs [sic] of the Soldiers, to animate them to fight, & had caused brandy to be distributed amongst them, obliged our Generals to take all the necessary cautions to provide for their reception"; attributing the French indecisiveness to divisions among the leadership, "some being for fighting, some for forbearing"; mentioning that Monsieur Chamillart, the secretary of state for war, was dispatched to the field "with full power to determine the Matter: but not daring to do it, he's gone back post to relate all the reasons Pro & Con to the King"; sending updates about the siege of Lille; writing that the Duke of Savoy (Victor Amadeus) has captured the fort of Fenestrelle, and taken the seven or eight hundred men inside it prisoner; mentioning that the Elector of Brunswick (George I) has finally been admitted into the "Colledge of the Electors of the Empire"; telling the Duke that Lady Bridget will write as soon as she has "an answer about what you desire to be satisfyed with."
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