SAINT-SIMON Louis de Rouvroy, duc de [Paris,... - Lot 187 - Varenne Enchères

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SAINT-SIMON Louis de Rouvroy, duc de [Paris,... - Lot 187 - Varenne Enchères
SAINT-SIMON Louis de Rouvroy, duc de [Paris, 1675 - id., 1755], French writer, author of the Mémoires. Autograph manuscript, 8 1/2 pages in-4°, entitled "Mémoie". "Very pressing reasons oblige me to inform V.M. of what I learn with certainty since I had the honor to write to him, and to speak to him about Me des Ursins. M. le C' del Gindice makes it sound very loud that he has a disclaimer to see me and explains himself in such a way as to renew all that Me des Ursins is so carefully fomenting in the mind of the world to make me hateful. V. M. knows how much I urged her to have everything that has arisen clarified, and with what affectation of secrecy they never cease to conduct themselves in Spain in order to maintain the ideas that suit Me des Ursins and which she is now having maintained in their decadence by a character whose weight and novelty will give back both to these things which would otherwise have finally fallen of their own accord. [...] It is not from today that these plans are known to me and I have remained silent, but how can I remain silent in these extremities while I see with [...] what succession and what success all the work is being prepared and conducted for a certain execution because you are unaware of it and because you alone can bring the remedy. The quickest thing, Sire, is to get rid of this dangerous man [...] to free your Court from this spy and your subjects from a suborner who cannot be anything else. He has only come to ask you for your orders concerning the government of Spain and to beg your Majesty to allow him to explain various things before giving his orders which will be the laws of the King his grandson.
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