LORRAINE. POLAND. Scipion Jérôme BÉGON (1681 - 1753) Prelate - Lot 112

LORRAINE. POLAND. Scipion Jérôme BÉGON (1681 - 1753) Prelate, Bishop of TOUL (Lorraine, Meurthe-et-Moselle) from 1723 to 1753. Letter addressed to the Bishop of TOUL, by the "Duc de Tencryn" of Lunéville on November 26, 1740: "You will kindly allow me, Monseigneur, to send you the enclosed letter, for the Queen Mother Prioress of the Religious Benedictines I have received from POLAND from my beautiful Sister Religious of the same Order; whom I know you honor with your protection; It is partly for this reason, that I take the liberty; and the motive, to be able to renew to you the assurances of my respects; Madame d'OPOLINSKA presents you with hers..."(Catherine d'OPOLINSKA was Queen of Poland and Duchess of Lorraine (1680 - Lunéville 1747). 1 page in-4°.