Françoise-Hippolyte Lériget de La Faye, marquise... - Lot 233 - Ader

Françoise-Hippolyte Lériget de La Faye, marquise de LA TOUR DU PIN MONTAUBAN (around 1740-1814) heiress of the Château de Condé, her husband was chamberlain to the Duke of Orléans and colonel of the Chartres regiment. Autograph manuscript, [château de Condé] October 1796-December 1798; 4 packs of folded sheets forming 4 small in-8 notebooks of 308, 472, 223 and 56 pages, i.e. 1059 pages (some ff. at the beginning or end of the notebooks a little erased). Curious ephemerides noted by the châtelaine of Condé-en-Brie in 1796-1798. Several notes are recorded according to the Gazette nationale de France, several times cited, and of which two mailing strips are kept at the address of "la cit. Delatour-Dupin, in Condé, by Château-Thierry, Départ. De l'Aisne ". The document shows a keen interest in current events, with details of the intimate life of the Marquise citizen, mistreated by her servants and who fears betrayal and violence. We can only give a few brief glimpses of it here. Cahier [1] (p. 5-312), 12 October-30 December 1796. Notes on the incident of July 19, at Dillingen, where the Count of Provence was wounded by a bullet to the head ... On November 4, violent movement of the Davidson (English maid); "at the caffé there were in the sugar bowl ... three black spots of poison," and in the evening the Marquise heard the Picot "ask for the death of the King of Sweden and immediately dared to ask for the death of the King of France. On October 22nd, "five people who, suspected of emigration, were arrested" disembarked at La Ciotat... [October 29th], General Hoche was assassinated at Rennes. 11 November, violence and departure of two domestic servants. 3 November, misdeeds of brigands in the vicinity of Paris. 17 November, pawning in Berlin of the "famous French diamond, known as the Regent's diamond" ... 5 November, "Madame de Genlis, formerly governess of the children of the Duke of Orleans" is expelled from Berlin; "Resolution taken by H.M. Prussia not to receive any more French émigrés in its states" ... 11 November. "Letters from Dresden. The Elector of Saxony decides to send his continuance to the army. The anniversary of the death of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, was celebrated on the 16th at the Court "... Etc. Notebook [2] (p. 5-476), October 24-December 31, 1797. September 25, death of Hoche. October 25, the servants in the kitchen had a filthy and disturbing conversation; the next day, "one dared to shout to injure and break the arm of the King of France, Louis XVIII. 27 September: "Petersburg, 27 August. It is reported that the emperor has just assigned to Louis XVIII the sum of two million rubles, to put him in a position to buy land in Russia or Germany. He has also given orders to receive any individual from Condé's army who wishes to enter the service of Russia"... 11 October: "The Prince de Condé is now supported only by Russia and England. The Viennese court has abandoned him"... 8 November: they do not clean "the stinking vases [...] I am made to smell of shit [...] Women, girls, men, boys, children shout at me here in my castle and outside that I must be finished"... 30 September, list of names of those sentenced to deportation embarked at Rochefort: Barthélemy, Barbé-Marbois, Rovère, Pichegru, etc. Anecdotes about the "famous" Mme de Staël, who intervened with one of the Directors in favor of François Aubry, "one of the least excusable, all the less excusable as he leaves behind him the suspicion of having betrayed both parties", and about the publisher Panckoucke and the Directoire... Cahier [3] (paginated 31-253), November 28 [1798]-2 January [1799]. December 18. Copy of the death and burial certificate of "the citizen Charlotte Abele Gabriele Armande Forêt de Blacon[s] abbess of Sézanne residing in the house of the citizen La Tour du Pin" at the age of 83... December 21. " Paris. It is known that the aforementioned Chevalier de Boufflers who married Madame de Sabran [...] is retired in Prussia in a house given to him by Prince Henri. We have just read at the Berlin academy, a work of his composition "... December 17, on the forthcoming "marriage of the Duke of Angouleme, eldest son of the Count of Artois, with the Royal Princess of France...".... Notebook [4], fragments paginated 1-28 and 457-472, and a few scattered pages, 8 January-13 July 1799. In June, the Marquise notes details of the marriage of the Duke of Angoulême.