COMTAT VENAISSIN - FLECHIER family - [Esprit FLECHIER, Bisho - Lot 403

COMTAT VENAISSIN - FLECHIER family - [Esprit FLECHIER, Bishop of Nîmes and member of the Académie Française in 1673] / Autograph letter signed byFrançois FLECHIERto his brotherBalthazar-Antoine FLECHIER, both nephews of Esprit FLECHIER, 3 p small in-4 plus address page with red wax seal of arms, François Fléchier is canon of Nîmes cathedral and Balthazar-Antoine is second archdeacon; François writes from Nîmes on November 27, 1744 to his brother in Paris: "l'Abbé de Meauxdoit être arrivé, il a mandé ici qu'il partait de Lyon le 21, quelle négligence de garder précieusement les pièces qu'il savait être nécessaires à son procès"; "le Major [nb: leur frère Alexis-Nicolas Fléchier, Major-commandant de Lorient]nous mande que son régiment est destiné pour la ville de Constance après la reddition des châteaux de Fribourg [nb: Guerre de succession d'Autriche], il ne croit pas que la Reine de Hongrie [nb: Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche] will agree to surrender them, which would make their stay even longer, given that they have food for five months in the castles, yet batteries of cannons and mortars have been set up on the heights overlooking the castles, which would lightning strike them, so that it wouldn't take that long to force them to surrender, but our troops have suffered so much that they wouldn't need a longer delay to recover"; "you have heard that the English have abandoned the seas and have passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, their ships could no longer absolutely hold the sea, it is claimed that they have returned to England to refit and careen, as a result of this news, all the Marseilles ships which had taken refuge in Malta, ninety in number, have returned to the port of Marseilles loaded with merchandise from the Levant, judge the joy there is in this place and for all these provinces which are very interested in it"; "Abbé Pichony leaves tomorrow for Montpellier, he is a deputy for the Provincial Assembly, he must return with Monsieur l'Evêque who is returning, having asked for his leave on the pretext that he has no grand vicar in his diocese, he is going to make a dining room in his évêchédes of the two rooms which are on the left side as you enter, It is feared that he will topple his house for an idea that is so baroque given the extraordinary detours that will have to be made to find the dining room".