Étienne-François, comte then duc de CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE (1719-1785) minister of Louis XV. L.A.S. "Choiseul de Stainville", Paris August 4, 1749, to the Duc de Nivernois; 1 1/2 pages small in-4 (watermark with arms). Concerning the bulls requested "by the King of Poland [Stanislas Leszczynski] for possession of the abbey of Autseil [Haute-Seille in Lorraine] which S.M.P. has given the appointment to Sr Aliot [Nicolas-Joseph Alliot]. The father of this Aliot renders me daily many services in the affairs I have in the council of the King of Poland, I would like the recommendation I dare to make to you for him to mark my gratitude, moreover sir I do not know if you are informed that there was no election made by the monks and that I have the fact from the abbot of Morimond himself, which I have joined with the truth of the law of the king of poland and your protection must remove all obstacles which have delayed the expedition of the bulls, I believe aussy that there is a common interest to obtain good to a secular priest, when one would have no other motive than celuy to deprive a vile monk"....