ARDÈCHE. Marquis de VOGÜÉ Cérice François Melchior, Général - Lot 326

ARDÈCHE. Marquis de VOGÜÉ Cérice François Melchior, Général et Député aux États-Généraux de 1789 par la Sénéchaussée de VILLENEUVE-DE-BERG (Château de Vogüé 1732 - 1812) - Autograph letter signed in VILLENEUVE DE BERG (Ardèche) on April 4, 1789. 1 page in-4°, addressed to the Marquis de LA TOURRETTE (the Deputy LA RIVOIRE DE LA TOURRETTE) Mestre de Camp of a Grenadier Regiment at his hotel in TOURNON: "I have received, my dear Cousin, your letter. I had learned previously and with real sorrow that you would not be our Companion to the Estates-General. It's not that I consider myself with a kind of dread the task with which we are going to be charged. I'll say no more at this point, as the Comte d'ENTRAYGUES and I were appointed this morning. Mr de Jouin received a certain number of votes in the second ballot, but the Comte d'ENTRAYGUES received three quarters. The third does not end, we have been tossing two three people around all day without a nomination. This keeps me here unnecessarily, and prevents me from spending a whole day with you and in Gourdon, as I had proposed if I could have left tomorrow. It will only be possible for me to spend a few hours with you. A thousand regards for me to everything that belongs to you and to the Vicomte de MONTEIL. I renew to you, my dear Cousin, the assurances of my inviolable and very fond attachment. VOGÜÉ."