Louis XVIII. Autograph letter to Claude-Louis... - Lot 34 - Osenat

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Louis XVIII. Autograph letter to Claude-Louis... - Lot 34 - Osenat
Louis XVIII. Autograph letter to Claude-Louis de La Châtre. Hartwell Castle[at Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire], 25 December 1810. 1 p. 1/4 in-8 square, mourning border. "I received, my dear La Châtre, your large package by Mr. le p[rin]ce de Condé, I thank you for sending me Mr. Dutens' book[Louis Dutens, Correspondance interceptée, Paris, 1788, collection of anecdotes evoking among other things the removal of the "iron mask"], I read it with the greatest interest and not without any fruit. The lapse of time and the terrible events that have occurred since 1788 have erased many of the circumstances of what happened then from my mind and my judgment has been affected, so the reading I have just made has rectified it on many points. It still has an advantage, it is that we believe we read the history of the present, rather than that of the past, so much the current conduct of the ministry is modelled on that of the time, remains to be seen whether the outcome will be the same, Asdrubale interempto[that is, in Latin, "Hasdrubal having been killed"], regardless of the difference that there are from 72 to 50, and from 48 to 26. When I read the letter I am sending you back, I first feared that I would have to say like Sunshine, it did not amuse me at all[quote from the Marriage of Figaro de Beaumarchais], but the happy combination of the date with the four words preceding the final formula reassured me. With that, you shouldn't rely too much on it, because the man's will is ambulatory, even that of the woman, so you must make sure that the lady has returned to Berks, only then receive her errant letter, answer it on your behalf, explain the accidents that prevented you from receiving it instead, I would like to say that you will transmit to me the content of it and make you in advance guarantor of the sensitivity and regrets that it will excite in me, even if I would like the word regrets to be from this beautiful writing that the devil, who invented it, himself has d
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