Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de MIRABEAU (1715–1789). Autogra - Lot 69

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Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de MIRABEAU (1715–1789). Autogra - Lot 69
Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de MIRABEAU (1715–1789). Autograph letter signed “M.,” Paris, July 31, 1759; 1¼ pages, small quarto. He warns his correspondent of the schemes of an schemer, “who one moment dredges up a family tree, then uses his sick wife as an excuse; he was once a Jesuit [...] moreover, he is strongly backed by the bishop, with whom he has been at daggers drawn, but the latter is a true Perigourdian in the full sense of the word […] You would not expect, in a century of intrigue, to find any extortionist who is not at the same time a great schemer and strongly backed”...
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