MAXIMILIAN I OF BAVIERE. 2 letters. - Autograph... - Lot 9 - Osenat

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MAXIMILIAN I OF BAVIERE. 2 letters. - Autograph... - Lot 9 - Osenat
MAXIMILIAN I OF BAVIERE. 2 letters. - Autograph letter signed "Max" to the count Johann Nepomuk de Montjoie. S.l., November 15, 1806. "You are a charming young boy, my dear Jean Népomucène, IT IS ME WHO THROUGH YOUR CARE HAS THE FIRST NEWS OF THE NEW SUCCESSES. My joy was altered this morning by notices from the Upper Palatinate [northeastern portion of the kingdom of Bavaria]. It appears that 80 m[ille] Austrians are going to enter there and sack and pillage my States. I believe they will repent, but in the meantime the damage will be done. It would be cruel to be forced to save myself again. Farewell, my dear Montjoie, think of your friend Max. A thousand greetings to my friend [Jean] Rapp. Tell him that I love him well." BAVARIAN TROOPS WERE AGREED TO THE GREAT ARMY IN THE CAMPAIGN OF PRUSSIA, and served in particular in the pursuit of the Prussians in Poland in November-December 1806. - Letter signed "Max" to Melanie de Montjoie. Palace of Nymphenburg in Munich, June 16, 1823. "I am very sensitive to the kind words you have expressed to me... and I hasten to express my thanks for the hens and the rooster which you have kindly enriched my collection...". IT WAS MAXIMILIAN I WHO FOUNDED THE ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF MUNICH, in 1807. A KING OF BAVARIA BY THE GRACE OF NAPOLEON I: Maximilian Joseph of Wittelsbach became Elector of Bavaria in 1799 and came from one of the most powerful ruling Germanic families. Napoleon I succeeded in making him an ally: in exchange, and in order to fortify a satellite state of France, he had him recognized as king of Bavaria in December 1805, and organized in January 1806 a marriage between his adopted son Eugène de Beauharnais and the daughter of Maximilian I, Augusta of Bavaria. - THE MONTJOYE FAMILY WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST CHIVALRIC FAMILIES IN ALSACE. Johann Nepomuk de Montjoye, count of Frohberg, served in the Bavarian army, as an officer of hussars, then as major-general and general-adjutant of Maximilian I in Upper Austria, and fulfilled the functions of Grand-Equire of the king. His father Nepomuk-Fortuné de Montjoie, the last Count of Hirsingue (near Mulhouse), had emigrated to Switzerland during the Revolution and died there in 1791. In Switzerland, the Montjoyes had the opportunity to render important services to the Duke of Orleans, the future Louis-Philippe I, who emigrated with his sister Adélaïde. These benefits were not forgotten and, after 1815, Melanie de Montjoie and her sister Christine received for the first one a place of lady-in-waiting of the duchess Adélaïde, and for the second one a place of lady-in-waiting of the duchess of Orleans, future queen Marie-Adélaïde. In 1848, the two sisters followed the Orléans into exile in England where they remained until their death.
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