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Rare lady's patent of the Society of Maternal Charity. On vellum. In the name of Madame de Bradi née Caylan (1782-1847) Done at the Tuileries on December 15, 1811. Signatures of the Empress Marie Louise and Cardinal Fesch. 37 x 27 cmB .E . The Countess de Bradi (Agathe-Pauline Caylac de Caylan, Countess de), born in Paris in 1782, was brought up by her father, a cavalry captain, with all the roughness of a military education, and from childhood he forced her to contract the habit of head work, while her mother obliged her to work with her hands . Born with religious inclinations, she always tried to conform her actions to her beliefs. Married at seventeen to the Count of Bradi, descendant of an ancient and noble Corsican family, she followed her husband to Italy, and was wounded by shrapnel at the Siege of Genoa. When she became a mother, and having retired to the castle of Rebrechien, near Orleans, all the faculties that the most assiduous study can develop were devoted to her children; the loss of her fortune determined her alone to publish what she wrote. It was a success in booksellers.
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Rare lady's patent of the Society of Maternal Charity.
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