Henri Oswald de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE de BOUILLON (1672- 1747) - Lot 73

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Henri Oswald de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE de BOUILLON (1672- 1747) - Lot 73
Henri Oswald de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE de BOUILLON (1672- 1747) - Archbishop of TOURS 1719, Abbot and General of CLUNY, Archbishop of VIENNE 1722, Cardinal 1737. He was the nephew of Cardinal de BOUILLON: 1) Letter A.S. "L'ABBÉ D'AUVERGNE", Paris January 9, 1704 - 3pp in-4° - It is about the lawsuit of the Duke of ST SIMON against his brother-in-law the Duke of COSSÉ-BRISSAC, for the Succession of the Duchess of BRISSAC, Sister of ST-SIMON died in 1683. "I have charged Mr. Le VAILLANT to make a Memoir on the affair of DE B. (Brissac), having read to him another Memoir that I had made by a Lawyer that Mr. de BOUILLON and Mr. my Father (the Count of AUVERGNE) chose..." + 2) Letter signed "Le Cardinal d'AUVERGNE", Paris 21 November 1738 - to Cardinal de FLEURY. 3pp in-4°: "On arriving yesterday in Paris, I learned that two Religious of the narrow Observance of CLUNY had called as abuse of the Orders and Elections made by the Definitors of their Observance in the last General Chapter. TRIPPERET is the same one whom she had exiled in 1734 for the affairs of the time... It was he, nevertheless, who thought of missing the Election of the Archbishop of BOURGES..."
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