Madame de LA FAYETTE – Autograph receipt signed “De la Vergne”.

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Countess of LA FAYETTE

Autograph receipt signed “De la Vergne”.

A page in-4°. No place, January 12, 1682.

Rare and precious autograph signed by Madame de La Fayette .

“ I, the undersigned proxy of Mr. ^de la Fayette, my husband, confesses to having received from Mr. de Montolon the sum of three hundred and ninety-five pounds for one year of the annuity which he serves us for one year of the annuity due last July from which I leave him. Done this 12th of January, one thousand six hundred and four came two. From La Vergne. »

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The documents signed by the author of La Princesse de Clèves are of the greatest rarity.