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FAUCHE-BOREL (ABRAHAM-LOUIS). "MES MEMOIRES QUE JE PRENDS LA LIBERTE DE VOUS REMETTRE...". Autograph letter signed to the Duchess of Damas-Crux, based on an old note in ink]. Paris, 6th March 1829. One p. folio; later notes in red ink, sheet split in two at the central fold. "I was so impressed by the conversation you were kind enough to have with me during the time you deigned to grant me, Madame la duchesse, as well as Monsieur le Duc, that I take the greatest interest in urging you to read the third volume of my Memoirs, which I am taking the liberty of giving you for this purpose. The 22nd and 23rd chapters essentially contain details of the circumstances in which the Duke seems to have taken an interest [the author's activities in England during the Empire, with a long passage on the double agent Charles-Frédéric Perlet, a Swiss watchmaker who became a journalist in Paris and was recruited by Joseph Fouché]. He will be pleased if you, Madame la Duchesse, tell him about it after you have read it yourself. THE READING OF THIS PUBLICATION HAS ALREADY RECURRED UNWILLFUL MINDS FOR OUR HOLY CAUSE & every day the number increases...". NEUCHATELOIS ABRAHAM-LOUIS FAUCHE-BOREL (1762-1829) was the son of the printer Samuel Fauche (who had provided editorial cover for the Encyclopédie) and set up his own business in 1786, publishing the second part of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1790. He placed himself at the service of the counter-revolution: he printed the Declaration of Pilnitz (1791), published Joseph de Maistre's Considérations sur le France (1797), met Pichegru and Louis XVIII, but, arrested under the Empire, he agreed to play a double game for a while. He ended his life isolated, in debt and depressed, and shortly after publishing his memoirs, which led to several court cases, he committed suicide. DAME D'HONNEUR DE LA DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME, LA DUCHESSE DE DAMAS-CRUX, Anne-Félicité-Simone de Sérent (1772-1848), was the daughter of the Duke of Sérent, Governor of the Dukes of Angoulême and Berry, and his wife Bonne-Marie-Félicité de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Dame d'Atour to Madame Élisabeth and then Lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Angoulême until her death in 1823. In 1799, Anne-Félicité-Simone married the Duc Étienne-Charles de Damas-Crux (1754-1846): an emigrant officer who survived the ill-fated expedition to Quiberon (1795), he then served in the army of the Prince de Condé, before joining the service of the Duc d'Angoulême, which he followed until 1815. He was made a peer of France, but ceased to sit in 1830 due to his Legitimist convictions.
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
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