BIB_ID
81293
Accession number
MA 752.26
Creator
Aumale, Marie-Jeanne d', 1683-1756.
Display Date
1712 Oct. 31.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monseigneur 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.
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.
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
Recounting that the King [Louis XIV] has been bled and purged because of "une espece de fluction," but that he is now much better; writing that she is not at all interested in Mlles de Chaumont and that she is sorry to bother him with this problem; explaining that she will speak to [their?] relative at Versailles in the hope that they will be made to leave their current convent, where they are behaving badly; relating that Madame [de Maintenon] is in good health.
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