MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de). Signed... - Lot 41 - Osenat

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MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de). Signed... - Lot 41 - Osenat
MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de). Signed autograph letter "Mirabeau fils", addressed "to... Mr. Michaud, king's attorney at Mr. Morand's in Largillia. S.l., "Mardi gras at 9:30 in the evening... "[February 20, 1776]. 1/2 p. in-8 square, address on the back, 2 remnants of red wax seal, address page with dirt. "As soon as I receive my letter, I expect from your friendship, my dear friend, that you will ride a horse to come here. You will find me there where your sisters will tell you, and where they alone know, you can see me there right away. Bring Mauvaiset, ask him on my part to follow you all the way, I kiss you, don't delay a moment. It's all about.... "Mirabeau wanted for adultery hiding in Pontarlier. Spender and runner, Mirabeau suffered various retaliatory measures taken by his father: he was "banned" in 1774, then, the following year, locked up by stamp letters in the Château d'If, before being transferred to the Fort de Joux in Franche-Comté. The conditions of his detention were soon softened and he ended up renting an apartment in the nearby town of Pontarlier, where his spirit and ability led him to be admitted into the good society. He met a woman of easy morals, Jeanne Michaud, known as Jeanneton, also mistress of the Marquis de Saint-Mauris, governor of the Fort de Joux, and bonded with Jeanneton's brother, Jean-Baptiste Michaud, the king's attorney at the bailiwick of Pontarlier. Shortly afterwards, he began an affair with Sophie Richard de Ruffey, the unhappy wife of a seventy-year-old barbon, the Marquis de Monnier, which ended up being a matter of public record, prompting the Marquis de Saint-Mauris to put an end to the freedoms granted to Mirabeau. He then hid in Pontarlier from mid-January 1776, and was kept informed of the proceedings against him thanks to the lawyer Mauvaiset, lover and future husband of another light girl, Marguerite Barbaud, known as Gotton, with whom Mirabeau had often found Sophie de Monnier. After many adventures
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