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[Old Papers] The royal layette and miscellaneous 19th-century documents A collection of over 30 handwritten items on paper, including L.A.S., Paris, 14 September 1843, from Eugène Ier Lamoral, 8th? Prince of Ligne (1804–1880), Belgian Ambassador to France and a candidate for the Belgian throne during the Belgian Revolution of 1830, addressed to Jules Kindt, inspector of manufactures and expert in international trade, concerning negotiations with France on favourable customs agreements relating to the flax industry, which was undergoing a disastrous crisis in Flanders due to British mechanisation, with tens of thousands of Flemish weavers and spinners plunged into poverty Letter from the author, Marseille, 31 January 1811, Antoine-Ignace Anthoine, Baron de Saint-Joseph, Mayor of Marseille (1749–1826) + 15 letters, 1842–1844, François Anthoine de Saint-Joseph, son of the above (1787–1866) Letter from the author, 29 March 1825, Louis Auguste de Mondion (1760–1831), a former officer, addressed to the members of the paternal association of the Knights of Saint Louis, requesting assistance due to his meagre military pension Letter from the author, 29 March 1825, Louis Auguste de Mondion (1760–1831), a former officer, addressed to the members of his father’s association, the Knights of Saint Louis, requesting assistance due to his meagre military pension Letter from the author, Madrid, 5 Frimaire Year IV, Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion de Saint-Cyr, appointed Ambassador to Madrid by Napoleon Bonaparte Letter from the author, Peterswalde (Bohemia) and Pirna (Saxony), 13 and 14 September 1813, Edouard Mounier (1784–1843), secretary to the cabinet of Emperor Napoleon I, Intendant-General of Crown Buildings, addressed to his wife, Baroness Mounier (née Wilhelmine de Schladen), linear postmark ‘MAYENCE’ (traces of adhesive tape) An account of daily life in the imperial retinue during the German Campaign, in which Mounier describes the discomforts of the front with great wit: cramming four or five people into a room ‘on a few strands of straw’ or preferring to sleep in his carriage because of the mud and ‘awful rain’. Constantly awaiting a move order (‘the tedium of this state of uncertainty’), the civilian and military entourage organised themselves to keep spirits high. Mounier recounts an evening spent in the company of the Emperor’s famous aide-de-camp, Charles de Flahaut (“M. de Flahault, who sings very pleasantly, sang us a host of ballads and romances”). To take their minds off their hunger and the meagre nature of the actual meal (‘our potatoes and our mutton’), the officers sought an escape in their imaginations: ‘we began to arrange dinners, or rather, as in the story of the Thousand and One Nights, to feast in our imagination on all the delicacies we could invent. We had a good laugh at this folly.’ 2 Letter from the author, Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), renowned botanist, regent of the Banque de France and Member of Parliament + Letter from the author, Alexandre Delessert (1776–1833), banker in Paris, brother of the botanist 4 Letter from shipowners in Rouen, Prairial Year XI: the Lafosse brothers, Dubois du Fayel and Welz The Royal Layette of the future Queen Isabella II of Spain Collection of documents from the House of Colliau (‘Colliau Mère et Fils’), the King’s official linen supplier, located at 1, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs in Paris, May–June 1830, relating to one of the state commissions from the end of the Restoration: the official layette commissioned by King Ferdinand VII of Spain for his future child (the future Queen Isabella II) L.A., 7 June 1830, from the Marshal’s Wife, the Duchess of Reggio (wife of Marshal Oudinot and lady-in-waiting), addressed to the Baroness de Vanssay, informing her of the official visit by H.R.H. the Duchess of Berry to Madame Colliau’s workshops to admire the Spanish layette, 1 page in-4 Official report detailing the visit by the French and foreign royal families, 1 page in-4 4 sheets drawn in graphite, from the Colliau workshop’s sketchbooks, which served as models for the making of royal linens; original preparatory drawings or templates for embroidery and lace: a royal coat of arms surmounted by a fleur-de-lis crown in the Restoration style; 2 plates of scalloped borders and floral friezes intended to adorn christening sheets, fine nansouks or newborn bonnets; one sheet of royal ciphers and monograms (marked No. 17) featuring a crowned cipher within a laurel wreath and a complex interlacing pattern of lilies and roses FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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