Count d'ANTRAIGUES (Louis-Alexandre de Launay, 1753-1812, as - Lot 63

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Count d'ANTRAIGUES (Louis-Alexandre de Launay, 1753-1812, as - Lot 63
Count d'ANTRAIGUES (Louis-Alexandre de Launay, 1753-1812, astonishing character, real adventurer, he was first Deputy of the Nobility to the States-General, friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, close friend of Voltaire, emigrated in 1790, he became a conspirator and a secret agent in the service of the future Louis XVIII, then of the Czar Alexander I to end up assassinated in England) / Rare document concerning him: it is about his marriage certificate of December 29, 1790 in Côme in Italy (in his biography, it is always attested that he married secretly in Italy with his mistress the singer Antoinette Saint-Huberti, without therefore that one has precision on this subject): piece (1 p small in-4) in Latin signed by the hand of the Bishop of Como Joseph (Giuseppe) Bertini (1734-1804) who affixed his seal of red wax, on the back the Count of Antraigues noted in his hand "celebration of my marriage") [Madame de Saint-Huberti shared the adventurous life of her husband, favorite singer of Joséphine, she made free her husband when Bonaparte made him imprisoned, very current in Russia, it is still her who obtained for him the missions of the tsar, she was assassinated at the same time as her husband)
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