Madame de VERGENNES, wife of the Minister under Louis XVI. A - Lot 165

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Madame de VERGENNES, wife of the Minister under Louis XVI. A - Lot 165
Madame de VERGENNES, wife of the Minister under Louis XVI. Anne Duvivier (1730-1798) was the daughter of Henri Duvivier and Maria Bulo de Péra, a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished Latin families of Péra. She married in 1768 Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes, whose father was Master Ordinary in the Chamber of Accounts of Burgundy, her grandfather Treasurer General of France in Dijon. His brother, the Marquis Jean Gravier de Vergennes, was president of the Chamber of Accounts of Burgundy and ambassador. He will be Minister under Louis XVI - 2 Autograph letters (not signed) addressed to Madame Chéron in Poitiers. News letters: "There are so many idle people in Paris or I am so kind that I cannot have a moment to write to my dearest Friend to ask her for news... I have started my little journal 3 or 4 times and always I was interrupted... however the matter did not miss me by the return of my son-in-law, the new works, the spectacles, the festivals, all that will have made my gazette brilliant. I feel like writing half a sheet every day, my dear, and when there is a certain supply I will send them to you, but the misfortune is that I will not be able to resume the thread of my speech. I always have to reel off to the end, without indentation, without point, without comma and I walk my cat's hand without stopping.... My son-in-law thus returned in very good health and decorated with the great order of Bavaria called the order of St. Hubert, present that the King made to him and as this present took place only by the request of the Emperor. It becomes a mark of his satisfaction since the stay of the Emperor (Joseph II of Austria, May 1777) in our walls. I see my children very little... Mr de Blinville is dead, a great loss for Madame Houdetot" (Extract). 2 pages in-4° + "... this production (I speak to you about the work of Madam Genlis) is so (reserved) that it is impossible to deliver the reading to a young man... We do not have anything new in our Theater... There is only the theaters of Society which can open with other curiosity because each living room with its troop... ". 6 ½ pages in-8°.
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