Madame ÉGALITÉ. Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de BOURBON (1753-1821) - Lot 408

Madame ÉGALITÉ. Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de BOURBON (1753-1821), known as Mademoiselle d'Ivry, then Mademoiselle de Penthièvre. Daughter of the Duc de Penthièvre, she married Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, eldest son of the Duc d'Orléans, known as Philippe-Égalité and cousin of Louis XVI, on April 5, 1769 - Lettre A.S., November 12, 1815 (addressed to the Duc de Feltre). Transcription according to modern spelling: "Monsieur le Duc, I was very eager when you kindly wrote to me to enlighten you on the misunderstanding of my dinner time. I was quite interested in it, since I thought it was one of the ways of making it easier for you to give me the pleasure of having you there. And my chancellor has hastened, not being able at the moment to discharge the duty myself as I wished, to have the pleasure of deputizing for me with you. Still hoping for satisfaction, which would be even more complete if Madame la Duchesse de Feltre were to join me, I am forced to interrupt one of your precious and well-spent moments, to enclose a few memoirs which I had hoped to be able to give to Your Excellency myself, with explanations, and adding above all that I shall be quite desperate to tire you with any indiscreet request by leaving it entirely up to you. But you know as well as I do, Monsieur le Duc, that some things cannot be refused. Yours affectionately at your service". Signed: "Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon Penthièvre Duchesse douairière d'Orléans". Subscription: "I still have a memoir for a brave, loyal and respectable French gentleman whom I saw a lot of in Spain (she had been exiled in Spain throughout the Empire and only returned to France in June 1814) and in which I take great interest, but I am not enclosing it here as I am not in as much of a hurry as the others and moreover have many explanations to make to you in this regard. I also wished to speak to Your Excellency about the Comte 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 would add with confidence to you Monsieur le Duc that his wife was born in my father's household, her grandfather (the Vicomte de Castellane) being first squire to mine.