CLÉRY ( Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de). Signed... - Lot 12 - Osenat

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CLÉRY ( Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de). Signed... - Lot 12 - Osenat
CLÉRY ( Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet de). Signed autograph letter to the Bishop of Nancy Anne-Louis-Henry de La Fare. Königsberg[then in Prussia, now Kaliningrad in Russia], 15 April 1800. 2 pp. in-4, address on the back, marginal tear on the address sheet due to the opening without affecting the text. "Her Majesty the Queen orders me to pass the attached note to you in order to send her the sum of 10,000 litres[drunk] she will need most when she arrives in Pyrmont, which will be from May 8 to 12. The bad paths, the prolonged stays required for the queen's health, determine Her Majesty to ask you to send her this money as soon as possible. The funds advanced by the king for the queen's journey will become insufficient to wait until June 1st, when Her Majesty will receive the amount of the pension for the month of May from the King of Spain, the month of April already being used for the travel advances.... The queen left Mittau on April 2[then in Russia, now Jelgava in Latvia]. S[a] M[ajesté] endured with great courage the fatigue of the first 12 days of walking. Which makes us assume that she will arrive in Pyrmont with no other accidents than the weariness of a journey as long as it is painful... "At the end, he indicates where to receive his correspondence: "remaining post in Pyrmont or Hamburg with Mr. de Thouvenay[Athanase Perrinet Des Faugnes de Thauvenay, diplomatic representative of Louis XVIII in Hamburg]". A great witness to Louis XVI's captivity in the Temple, Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1759-1809) began working for Madame de Guéméné, the governess of the children of France, before becoming chambermaid to the Duke of Normandy, later Louis XVII. It was also as a valet that he accepted to serve Louis XVI in the Temple prison from August 26, 1792. After the king's death, he remained incarcerated in the Temple and then in La Force, and was only released after the 9th thermidor. He then carried out some missions with Madame Royale, Louis XVIII and Queen Marie-Jose
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