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Peal accession no. 7418. Includes signed documents and manuscript letters by Louis XV, Marie Leszczyńska, Madame de Pompadour, Princess Marie Adélaïde of France, and André-Hercule de Fleury. With prints of Louix XV, Marie Leszczyńska, Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry, and André-Hercule de Fleury. Nearly all letters have an accompanying description or translation from the French.
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228. FRENCH AUTOGRAPHS. An interesting group as detailed below, accom-
panied by numerous portraits; tipped and inlaid to 4to, morocco, rubbed. (Levy)
Comprises: Louis XV, D.s., 1736; Marie Leczinska, A.L. not signed, 1A; p., with her seal, to
Count Saint-Florentin; Marquise de Pompadour, A.L.s., 21/2 pp., with her seal, 1760, A FINE
LETTER in which she tells about writing. her Memoirs; Comtesse du Barry, D.s., 1790; Louis
XV, L.s., 1746; Marie Adelaide, L.s. [with 3 lines in her hand], n.d. and Sareng, L.s., with
Marie-Adelaide’s endorsement and signature, 1779.
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5, 1760.
* A TRULY REMARKABLE LETTER.
Chateau de Bellevue, .. presented to her by Louis XV, which
had cost three millions, in a reply to a. query how she spends
her time. She writes, when she is not suffering from “1:1
migraine,” she is composing the Memoirs of her singular for-
tunes, which appears to her a reasonable occupation for a
woman who has almost passed the age of pleasing (she was
then in her forty-first year). These Memoirs will be seen
When she can see no more, and in this way she will escape the
reproaehes and the small resentments of the Ilrean and cow
can mock the living.” LETTERS
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OF THIS CHARACTER AND LENGTH ARE ALMOST UNKNOWN.
gives a. Witty and charming account of the Visit of a beautiful
Comtesse at Court who “hears four masses every day, her
hand was always in that of some other woman, with never a
glance for the men—she saw only her husband ‘et le jour
encore. ’ ’ ’
552. POMPADOUR (MARQUlSE DE—Nlistress of. Louis
XV., 1721-64). A. L. 8., 3 pp. 8vo, Chateau de Bellevue, July
(See Illustration.)
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