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70 - Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de MIRABEAU (1715–1789).
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Estimate €700 - €800
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Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de MIRABEAU (1715–1789). Letter from the sender, Paris, 27 December 1763, to Count Jean-Baptiste de Lasteyrie du Saillant, at his château du Saillant; 1¼ pages, quarto size, address, black wax seal bearing the coat of arms (broken). A lovely letter to the father-in-law of his daughter, Élisabeth-Charlotte. [Élisabeth-Charlotte de Riquetti de Mirabeau (1747–1821) had just married, on 7 November, Charles de Lasteyrie du Saillant (1740–1815).] ‘The same affection with which you honour my daughter, my dear cousin, I feel in its entirety for your son. I feel that it is in him that all our hopes lie, and that it is upon him that the honourable burden of your house must henceforth rest. I repeat to you that he is my favourite child [...] I shall see my daughter only in him; I shall measure my feelings for her only by those he deems he owes her; it is in this way, I believe, that we shall mutually ensure the happiness of our children and that I shall show you my gratitude for your kindness and friendship towards my daughter’... After speaking of the dowry, he said of his sons: ‘they are still only children’...
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