DEMOISELLES DE SAINT-CYR - VERSAILLES (78) March 3, 1744. Le - Lot 150

DEMOISELLES DE SAINT-CYR - VERSAILLES (78) March 3, 1744. Letter signed MONDIET Major, Rue de l'ORANGERIE, vis à vis les Voitures de la Cour, chez M. FOURNIER, addressed to Monsieur DE NAU Marchand DRAPIER Rue Saint Honoré au Lion d'Argent, à Paris - Wax seal with arms at opening. 2 1/2 pages in-4°: "I learned from M. TRUCHON, Ancien Capitaine, cy-devant dans le Régiment de POITOU, who does me the honor of being a friend of mine, that I could offer you a thousand écus which I have to take from the dowry of my daughter whom I withdrew from ST-CYR a year ago, and who had wanted to become a Religious of the Parc aux Dames near CRÉPY EN VALOIS where her health did not allow her to complete her novitiate." As she still intended to become a nun, he asked her to take this money as an annuity and return it to him in two or three years. "You know, Monsieur, the difficulties the Dames de SAINT-CYR admit in securing the dowry of Demoiselles who leave,..."