ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to t - Lot 14

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ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to t - Lot 14
ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (Charlotte de). Autograph letter signed to the Parisian notary Thomas-Philippe Foucher. Le Val-sous-Meudon [on the present-day commune of Meudon]. 2 pp. in-12, address on spine, vestige of red wax seal; split at center fold, small lack. "My mother wishes...that you would send us the article of the contract of this house relating to the conditions agreed by Mr Didelot for the rent of the factory. Did you see m[a]d[am]e de Vaudémont and Dumaretz, I didn't have the courage to tell him about our lack of success, I'm afraid he sensed it, as he didn't seem charmed by our affair, this being said between us and more confidentially, and even more confidentially than Mr Manoury's confidences were. I will wait to write to the p[rin]ce, what you have kindly promised me, he will be much better instructed by you than by me, I reserve only the article that concerns you, I am sure to treat this one as it should be. I have felt too keenly the zeal and attachment you have shown for the interests of the p[rin]ce in this circumstance not to make him a[p]preciate them..." DESCENDANT TO THE DUCS OF BRITAIN THROUGH HER FATHER THE PRINCE OF ROCHEFORT AND DESCENDANT TO KING CHARLES V THROUGH HER MOTHER MARIE-HENRIETTE D'ORLÉANS-ROTHELIN, CHARLOTTE DE ROHAN-ROCHEFORT (1767-1841) enjoyed a brilliant youth, She was only saddened by the disgrace of her beloved godfather, Cardinal de Rohan, Archbishop of Strasbourg, who was involved in the "affair of the necklace". After emigrating with her family in 1790, she met the Duc d'Enghien on several occasions, in Worms in February 1791, in Ettenheim on the German lands of Cardinal de Rohan (on the right bank of the Rhine opposite Alsace) throughout 1792 and at the end of 1793: it was at this time, while she looked after the ailing duke, that a strong love affair developed between them. A long separation followed, until in 1798 she was able to join the Duc d'Enghien in Loutsk, Ukraine, on his return journey to Germany. She saw him again the following year in Linz, Austria, and when Condé's army was disbanded in 1801, the Duc d'Enghien was released from his obligations and came to live with her in Ettenheim: they married morganatically in November 1803, before two witnesses including Baron von Grünstein. After the Duc d'Enghien's execution three months later, she lived in his memory, never remarrying.
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