BERRY (Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles,... - Lot 47 - Osenat

BERRY (Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles, duchess of) and others. Set of about 40 letters and pieces from the papers of Marshal de Bourmont and his wife Juliette de Becdelièvre. 1799-1843 and s.d. THE ADVENTUROUS DUCHESS OF BERRY. Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles, daughter of the king of the Two Sicilies François I Xavier and Marie-Clementine of Austria, married in 1816 the duke of Berry Charles-Ferdinand (1778-1820), son of Charles X, of whom she had a son, the duke of Bordeaux. Exiled during the July revolution (1830), she returned to France in April 1832 and tried unsuccessfully to raise the people in Provence, the Vendée and Brittany, with the aim of a legitimist restoration: arrested in Nantes in November 1832, she was locked up in Blaye, and released only in 1833. Having given birth to a child in prison, that she declared to be of the count Ettore Lucchesi-Palli, married in secret, she lost however most of her family and political credit, and ended her life between Italy and Austria. LE MARECHAL DE BOURMONT, ONE OF THE LEGITIMIST CONSPIRATORS OF 1832. Son of an aide-de-camp to the Count of Artois, Louis-Auguste-Victor de Ghaisnes de Bourmont fought in the ranks of the emigrants, the Vendeans (Louis XVIII made him a general), and the Grande Armée, before rallying to the Restoration, despite a momentary return to the Emperor during the Hundred Days - he deserted shortly before Waterloo and was one of the principal accusers of Marshal Ney at the latter's trial. He then received important military commands, notably during the Spanish expedition in 1823 where his participation earned him the dignity of peer of France. Appointed Minister of War in 1829, he was one of those who decided the king to launch the expedition of Algiers, received the command in chief and, after its success, was made Marshal of France (June 1830). Refusing to serve the July monarchy, he joined Charles X in his exile and then supported in the Vendée the unfortunate attempt of the duchess of Berry (1832). Condemned to death in absentia, he went into exile again and reached Portugal in the middle of the civil war where he offered his services to Don Miguel (absolutist usurper of the throne), for which he was stripped of his nationality and his military ranks in France. After a detour through Rome and Germany, the amnesty of 1840 allowed him to return to his native Anjou. - 7 LETTERS FROM THE DUCHESS OF BERRY, ONE OF THEM GIVING THE ORDER TO THE MARECHAL DE BOURMONT TO LAUNCH THE INSURRECTION IN THE WEST. Autograph piece signed. [Naples], November 28, 1831. "Having the greatest confidence in the count de Bourmont, marshal of France, we charge him to listen, and to discuss the offers and requests which are made to him, referring us to his wisdom and his honor, to conclude if there is need a treaty which is honest for the Crown and satisfactory for France..." (1/2 p. in-8 oblong). - Autograph letter signed to Marshal de Bourmont. [castle of Plassac, in Charente-Maritime], May 15, 1832. "God grant, my dear marshal, that you have arrived, but in this unfortunate uncertainty, having found here all that one had announced to us, and having received very satisfactory reports of the South, I made give the order to act on the 24th of this month in all the South and in Paris; MAKE GIVE THE ORDERS IN ALL THE WEST. MAY GOD HAVE US, MY DEAR COUSIN, ALL IN HIS HOLY CUSTODY. MC R [Marie-Caroline Regina ?] " (1 p. in-16 oblong IN SYMPATHIC INK, restorations to the adhesive tape on the back with traces of glue on the front). - Autograph letter signed to the wife of the marshal. Florence, September 15, 1833. "I would have wished to be able to testify to you rather all the feelings which inspire me the noble devotion of your family to the cause of my son, and the share which I took in your worries. Deprived for some time of direct news of the marshal, I follow with great interest those which the newspapers give and I hope that he will add one more glory to that which is already so justly acquired. Please, when you write, tell him that I will never forget his services, those of his generous sons who are always ready to follow in his footsteps and believe, Madame la maréchale, in the feelings of your affectionate Marie Caroline " (1/2 p. in-8, address on the back with red wax seal with emblematic motif). - Autograph letter signed to Marshal de Bourmont. Brandeis Castle [then currently in the municipality of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav, near Prague in the Czech Republic], May 29, 1835. " ... There was a rapprochement between my family and me. I saw the king, the Dauphin and the Dauphine [Charles X, and the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme], and I had reason to be satisfied with the way they welcomed me. My children have been able to resume the habit of coming to see me, which has been a great source of joy and consolation for their mother. The water season separates us for a few months. All the royal family is in Teplitz and I say to myself