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ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to t…
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ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to t…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to the Parisian notary Thomas-Philippe Foucher. Le Val-sous-Meudon [in the present commune of Meudon]. 2 pp. in-12, address on the back, vestige of a red wax seal; split at the central fold, small lack.
"My mother would like you to send us the article of the contract of this house relating to the conditions agreed by Mr Didelot for the rent of the factory. Did you see Mr de Vaudémont and Mr Dumaretz? I did not have the courage to tell him about our lack of success; I fear that he sensed it, as he did not seem to be very pleased with our business. I will wait to write to the principal until you have kindly promised me, he will be much better informed by you than by me, I am only reserving the article that concerns you, and I am sure that I will deal with this one as it should be.
DESCENDANT TO THE DUCS OF BRITAIN THROUGH HER FATHER THE PRINCE OF ROCHEFORT AND DESCENDANT TO KING CHARLES V THROUGH HER MOTHER MARIE-HENRIETTE D'ORLÉANS-ROTHELIN, CHARLOTTE DE ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (1767-1841) had a brilliant youth, She was only saddened by the disgrace of her beloved godfather, Cardinal de Rohan, Archbishop of Strasbourg, who was involved in the "affair of the necklace". She left with her family to emigrate in 1790, and had several opportunities to see the Duc d'Enghien, in Worms in February 1791, in Ettenheim on the German lands of the Cardinal de Rohan (on the right bank of the Rhine opposite Alsace) throughout 1792 and at the end of 1793: it was at this time, when she was looking after the sick duke, that a strong romantic feeling developed between them. A long separation followed, until in 1798 she was able to join the Duc d'Enghien in Loutsk in the Ukraine, where she travelled with him back to Germany.
She saw him again the following year in Linz, Austria, and when Condé's army was disbanded in 1801, the Duc d'Enghien was released from his obligations and came to live with her in Ettenheim: they married morganatically in November 1803, in the presence of two witnesses, one of whom was Baron von Grünstein. After the Duc d'Enghien was executed three months later, she lived in his memory and never remarried.
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