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REVOLUTION Française - Alexandre LANFANT, 1726-1792) Jesuit, preacher, confessor to Louis XVI, assassinated in the Abbaye prison during the September massacres on September 3, 1792. LAS to Princess Sophie de Hohenlohe. Paris, July 20, 1787. 3 pages in-4. Lovely letter: "Reflection then made me perceive in the manner in which you were kind enough to bid me farewell, an express order not to renew this sad ceremony. I thought, Princess, that I must comply with your wishes at the expense of my own...I like to hope...that our capital does not lose you without hope of return...". Lanfant's letters are rare...

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REVOLUTION Française - Alexandre LANFANT, 1726-1792) Jesuit, preacher, confessor to Louis XVI, assassinated in the Abbaye prison during the September massacres on September 3, 1792. LAS to Princess Sophie de Hohenlohe. Paris, July 20, 1787. 3 pages in-4. Lovely letter: "Reflection then made me perceive in the manner in which you were kind enough to bid me farewell, an express order not to renew this sad ceremony. I thought, Princess, that I must comply with your wishes at the expense of my own...I like to hope...that our capital does not lose you without hope of return...". Lanfant's letters are rare...

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For sale on Tuesday 21 May : 14:00 (CEST)
paris, France
Vermot et Associés
01.71.19.42.16
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