ARTAGNAN (Pierre de Montesquiou d'). Autograph letter signed - Lot 2

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ARTAGNAN (Pierre de Montesquiou d'). Autograph letter signed - Lot 2
ARTAGNAN (Pierre de Montesquiou d'). Autograph letter signed "artaignan" to François Mérigot de Sainte-Feyre, ensign in the Gardes-Françaises. "From the Courtray camp", October 12 [1694]. One p. in-4, address on back, red wax armorial seal. "J'ai receu... celle que vous m'avés fait l'honneur de m'escrire au sujet du gouvernement de Fougères. I immediately spoke to the Marshal de Bouflers who was here, who assured me that he would write to the King and told me that you had written to him. It will not hold to my solicitations that you are not satisfied, and by justice and inclination I hasten[ai] to make tesmoignage of your services and your merit... ". MARECHAL DE FRANCE HAVING COMPLETED HIS CAREER AT THE COUNCIL OF REGENCE, PIERRE DE MONTESQUIOU D'ARTAGNAN (1640-1725), was a page to Mazarin and then to the King, served with the musketeers of the Gardes-Françaises from 1664 to 1698, and took part in the siege of Maastricht (1673), where his first cousin, Charles de Batz de Castelmore dit d'Artagnan, who inspired Alexandre Dumas, was killed. Made maréchal de camp in 1691, lieutenant general in 1696, he was one of the officers at the battles of Fleurus (1690), Steenkerque (1692) and Neerwinden (1693), and commanded the infantry at the battles of Ramillies (1706) and Malplaquet (1709). He was made Marshal of France in 1709, and was admitted to the Council of Regency in 1720. LE MARECHAL DUC LOUIS-FRANÇOIS DE BOUFFLERS, had been colonel of the Gardes-Françaises since 1692, and was then in command of one of the two French armies operating in Flanders during the war of the League of Augsburg.
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