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427 - François-Joachim de Pierre de BERNIS (1715–1794), ambassador…
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François-Joachim de Pierre de BERNIS (1715–1794), ambassador and Minister for Foreign Affairs, cardinal and poet (Académie Française). L.A., Rome, 25 August 1792, to a ‘dear Lord and nephew’; 1 page, folio On the events of 10 August. He passed on his nephew’s letter to the Ladies [Louis XVI’s aunts], ‘who read it with all the more interest, as they had just learnt from Genoa what had happened on the 9th at the Tuileries. The King hangs by a thread, both in life and in the crown! He is reduced to the deepest misery, and it is the Swiss, not the French, who, by perishing in their entirety, have prevented him from being massacred along with his family; it is under these circumstances that I am about to celebrate his feast day with great pomp in our national church!’…
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part II
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Auction time 10/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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