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Maître Jean-Paul RENOUD-GRAPPIN

67 - Marie-Thérèse-Sophie Richard de Ruffey, Marquise de MONNIER,…
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Estimate €400 - €500
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Marie-Thérèse-Sophie Richard de Ruffey, Marquise de MONNIER, known as Sophie MONNIER (1754–1789). Letter from the sender (L.A.S.) ‘Richard Mise de Monnier’, 25 June [1780, to Mr BOUCHER]; ¾ page in-4 with a red wax seal bearing her monogram. Letter written shortly after the death, on 23 May, of Gabrielle-Sophie, the daughter of Mirabeau and Sophie Monnier. [Boucher, ‘le Bon Ange’, was responsible for Sophie’s correspondence with Mirabeau, who was imprisoned at Vincennes]. Her daughter’s guardian is requesting a death certificate: ‘this event is not known in Pontarlier, and anything done until he can declare and prove it will be null and void’; she therefore insists on obtaining it. She would like to ‘know what you think of what I wrote to the Count [MIRABEAU] last time, and whether you approve of my plan’; LE NOIR seems to approve...
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About the sale AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS – PENNED BY HISTORY’S GREAT FIGURES
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Auction time 09/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 226183 - 13
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