Madame ÉGALITÉ. Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de BOURBON (1753-1821) - Lot 289

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Madame ÉGALITÉ. Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de BOURBON (1753-1821) - Lot 289
Madame ÉGALITÉ. Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de BOURBON (1753-1821), known as Mademoiselle d'Ivry, then Mademoiselle de Penthièvre. She was the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre and she married on April 5, 1769 Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, eldest son of the Duke of Orléans, called Philippe-Égalité and cousin of Louis XVI - Letter A.S. of November 12, 1815 (addressed to the Duke of Feltre). Transcription according to the modern spelling: "Mr. Duke, I was very eager when you wrote to me to enlighten you on the misunderstanding of the time of my dinner. I was very interested in it since I thought that it was one of the means of facilitating that you could get me the pleasure of having you there. And my chancellor hastened, not being able at the moment to fulfill it myself as I wished, to have the pleasure of substituting for me with you. Still hoping for satisfaction, which would be even more complete if Madame la Duchesse de Feltre would be willing to join me, I see myself forced to interrupt one of your moments which are so precious and so well spent, to attach here some memoirs which I hoped to be able to hand over to your Excellency myself with explanations and adding above all that I would be in despair of tiring you with any indiscreet request by entrusting myself absolutely to you. But you feel as well as I do, Mr. Duke, that there are things that cannot be refused. Your very affectionate to serve you ". Signed: "Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon Penthièvre Duchess Dowager of Orleans". In subscription: "I still have a memoir for a brave, loyal and respectable French gentleman whom I saw a lot in Spain (she had been exiled in Spain during the whole Empire and returned to France only in June 1814) and in which I take a lot of interest, but I do not enclose it here as I am not in as much of a hurry as the others and moreover I have a lot of explanations to make to you in this regard. I also wished to be able to speak to your Excellency about the Count de M... in relation to the government of the 8th division of La Provence. He is the nephew of the Minister of that name whom Monsieur le Dauphin honored with so many kindnesses and I will add with confidence to you Monsieur le Duc that his wife was born in my father's house, her grandfather (the Vicomte de Castellane) being the first squire of mine.
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