Henri Oswald de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE de BOUILLON (1672-1747) A - Lot 101

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° - This concerns the Duke of ST SIMON's lawsuit against his brother-in-law, the Duke of COSSÉ-BRISSAC, for the Succession of the Duchess of BRISSAC, ST-SIMON's sister, who died in 1683. "I have instructed Mr Le VAILLANT to write a Mémoire on the DE B. (Brissac) affair, having read him another Mémoire I had done by a Lawyer that Mr de BOUILLON and M. mon Père (Le Comte d'AUVERGNE) have chosen..." + 2) Letter signed "Le Cardinal d'AUVERGNE", Paris November 21, 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 appealed as an abuse of the Orders and Elections made by the Definitors of their Observance in the last General Chapter... Father TRIPPERET is the same one she had exiled in 1734 for the Affairs of the time... It was he, nevertheless, who thought to cause the Election of the Archbishop of BOURGES to fail...".