Michel LE TELLIER (1643-1719) a Jesuit, he succeeded Father - Lot 331

Michel LE TELLIER (1643-1719) a Jesuit, he succeeded Father La Chaize and was the last confessor of Louis XIV, whose destruction of Port-Royal he obtained. L.S. with 5 autograph lines, Paris August 5, 1710, to Abbé Languet "Aumonier de Made la Duchesse de Bourgogne"; 1 1/4 pages in-4, address with red wax seal. He returns to his correspondent a writing that he validates, after having made some corrections: "The writing that I send back to you is well done. It is right, short, and without embarrassment. Therefore it should please everyone, and become intelligible for less skilled or less enlightened people. You will find there some light additions, and some small changes, which only serve to make it still more precise, more clear, and more sensitive ". He wishes him all the success he deserves, for he praises his good intentions, which he will be "always ready to support"... He adds in his own hand that he has read to the King his letter on the abbey of Sept-fonds: "he has been touched by the state in which this poor house is reduced, but he does not see any remedy for now"; he can however count on "two hundred ecus" from him...