The Duchess of MONTPENSIER opposes her father.

Anne-Marie-Louise of Orléans, Duchess of MONTPENSIER (1627- 1693)

Autograph letter signed to his father, Gaston d'Orléans.

Seven pages in-4°. Address “To Monsieur” on the eighth page. Black wax seals

Saint-Fargeau. January 3 [1654]

“God ensure that this is no more and that I only receive from your Highness Roialle marks of your tenderness and friendship”

Long and important letter relating to the financial disputes which opposed him to his father, to recover the immense property which had been left to him by his mother, Marie de Bourbon, and which his father, remarried to Marguerite de Lorraine, managed.

Exiled to Saint-Fargeau after the Fronde, Grande Mademoiselle put her immense inherited fortune in order, and demanded that the guardianship accounts be returned to her. Fearing that her father would be misinformed of her intentions, the duchess asked him to read this letter.

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“I am so convinced that until this hour VAR was so poorly informed of my intentions that to make them clear to him respectfully what they are and what they always have been I resolved to write them to him and send my letter by the bearer who are a man of merit who will be able to return it himself to VAR [.] So I hope and I ask him in bold to take the trouble to read it all the way through as it is long and annoying because matters are always such[.]

VAR will remember if it is plent that they were thrown in Blois in the month of which she began to want to talk to me about business and ositost sen ala and left me with madame who asked me to beg that we put in writing the basis of our tale in order to put it in order I see things on the way to finishing [.] I told him that if it was the most convenient for me to do it, I would ask him with joy, but if it could take us to lengths that would finally force us to have to wait, I wouldn't do it. not [.]

When we arrived in Orleans, Mr. ^Goulas told me that he knew that his demise was seen by Mr. ^Renardeau and that it was necessary that I was very upset about it and we argued strongly about it [.] He told me that this was one thing that was necessary before that to put our clothes in the hands of Mr. ^de Cremont and the good one after having shouted well we concluded nothing except that if it was a formality which we could not do without and that gave no right to Sr. ^Menardeau to get involved of our affairs that I can consent to it [...]

But I learned that if this formality of examining our story should be done to him and it obliges us to put him as a third arbitrator which I beg VAR to find good that I do not do because sir all the members of parliament who have been Mazarins taking away that seluy I will always be very suspicious in the state I am in and your Highness Roialle is too righteous not to prove such a subject of challenge[.]

Finally, sir, it is not necessary for our story to be examined before our referees, as I am not able to tell you the reasons why and what you may be suspected of if VAR wants to name some of his friends who are intelligent I en nomeres osi veret with mr ^de Choisi and your advice and mine in what way we can use it to remove the woman from among the mins of mr ^Menardeau without telling him that and that he is masarin coy that no one disavows in the state where the thing is calite it will not take long to counter because it is straight ahead to the referees it will abbreviate all the tense that oret had to use opres of Mr. ^Menardeau which oret was useless because on my side I don't do anything[.]

I do not know after this, sir, if I can be accused of taking things too long and if the people who have proposed to put you in the position of my good sense that we are eclersi what belongs to you will have the same feelings this which annoys me very much if VAR believes them because it will cause me a significant pain if I am obliged to defend myself against her, I hope for her goodness that she will not come to that and I dare to tell her that it will make us a great tor alum and other in the state where we are obliged and I have every right to describe that the devious moves that the court has always made me operate on its behalf and their effect because it is so often assured of always countering enemies if I have not attracted them because I have never done harm to no one to be oppressed by your Royal Highness, it is to my confusion that I can say that I have not done so since all my life I have been in a state of feeling the honor of his fat bones, God see that it is no more and that I do not need from you Royal Highness that from the marks of her tenderness and her friendship for me she will never reserve anything other than respect, obisense and veneration and friendship if I dare say have the honor to be what I am to her Anne Marie Louise Dorleans. »

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The affair between the father and his daughter caused a lot of noise, the sums involved being as considerable as the personalities involved.

Rare document.