MONTPENSIER Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans,... - Lot 160 - Varenne Enchères

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MONTPENSIER Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans,... - Lot 160 - Varenne Enchères
MONTPENSIER Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchess of (known as La Grande Mademoiselle) [Paris, 1627 - id., 1693], heroine of the Fronde, where she commanded the cannons of the Bastille against the royal troops; she secretly married Lauzun. Autograph letter signed. Eu, February 13, 1664; 7 pages in-4. Address with black wax seals with arms under black silks. "I believe that Lorandière did not see to say that I envied him a power, which is not and he sends me every day things on which I do not know which resolution to take; I wish with passion to see finishing the affair of Luxamburg and I am surely bored of the length that one carried there; since one does nothing one would have twice made the division; being a three-day business I cannot understand that I am refused as Lorandière tells me to do before the contract is signed since without that I will not get out what I sign, leaving the freedom to the co-workers to use it as they please; these gentlemen there hold suremant the condition of Mrs. Doérière melieure than mine because she is well at court and I say that one never uses it otremant; insi I have signed my ruin. For the garden they will use it in the same way, these ladies will not want to upset Madame and they will say that the intention of the King is not that they should be removed. Afterwards, I may have to complain, but it will be no more and no less. That is why it would be better to abandon all my interests and wait for a time when I would be happy enough to be able to live in the good graces of the King. Then they did me justice and now they only speak to me by threat. Lorandière is so disturbed that he no longer knows what is being done; I say that Mme pretends and believes she is sure to have a garden enclosed in Luxamburg's; and what they say is being done to me in common with her will no longer be anything, being cut off from all sides, even from the servants, who all boast of living in the lower court and of being present to me. You can judge well if it is necessary for me to send a power of attorney and if I should not distrust the commissioners who, as soon as they are appointed, will be active in pleading with Me and all his servants and will move against me. Finally, when one is in the state in which I am, one must only be rigorous and I am not made to see anything else, I have only you to turn to; I say that you are fair and generous and that you will be at ease to defend my interests before the Lord and to make him aware that everything that has been done up to now has been done by intrigue and that all those who have been involved in the Luxambourg affair under the shadow of my disgrace are abusing his name in order not to do me justice, I thought I would tire you with my letters, but this affair is so important to me that I cannot avoid presenting my interests myself, since my managers do not dare to do so. If you understand well the state I am in, you will not be surprised that I am worried, because I have enough to worry about; I have great confidence in you, I hope that you will get me out of this unfortunate affair; I assure you that I have given you my last obliigation and that one cannot be more than I am [...I assure you that I have given you my last obliquation and that you cannot be more sure that I am [...] your most assured friend. "
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