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Marie-Caroline, Duchess of BERRY (1798-1870). P.A.S. "Marie Caroline"; 1page in-8. Curious account of an apparition of Saint Louis in a dream, when she was pregnant with the future Duc de Berry. "Approximately 4 months pregnant and asleep, I saw St. Louis enter my room as he is depicted, with his crown on his head, his great royal coat with fleurs de lys and his venerable figure. I presented him with my daughter, he opened his coat and presented me with the prettiest little boy, he took his own crown and put it on his head. I kept pushing Louise away from him, but he persisted in keeping the crown on the boy's head, and yet sheltered my daughter under his cloak. St Louis then disappeared with my two children, and I woke up convinced that I would have a boy"...

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Marie-Caroline, Duchess of BERRY (1798-1870). P.A.S. "Marie Caroline"; 1page in-8. Curious account of an apparition of Saint Louis in a dream, when she was pregnant with the future Duc de Berry. "Approximately 4 months pregnant and asleep, I saw St. Louis enter my room as he is depicted, with his crown on his head, his great royal coat with fleurs de lys and his venerable figure. I presented him with my daughter, he opened his coat and presented me with the prettiest little boy, he took his own crown and put it on his head. I kept pushing Louise away from him, but he persisted in keeping the crown on the boy's head, and yet sheltered my daughter under his cloak. St Louis then disappeared with my two children, and I woke up convinced that I would have a boy"...

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[PROVENANCE] J. E. ALLAIN - Nouvelle grammaire latine synoptique et analytique sur un plan très méthodique From Rusand et Ponthieu, Paris, 1825 - Interesting provenance for this Latin learning manual by a former university professor. Complete with large fold-out synoptic table, interior in generally good condition, scattered foxing. A superb copy in full green morocco, double gilt fillets on the boards, 5-ribbed spine with gilt fillets and dotted lines, gilt lace on the counterpanes and silk endpapers, gilt edges, some rubbing not serious, a personal copy of the Duchess of Berry with her cipher stamped on the first board, surmounted by a ducal crown. Also contains the bookplate of the Rosny library, where the Duchess had built up her library. A moving copy, which we can imagine the duchess using to accompany her reading of the classics when she was learning Latin... In-8, 5p (2) 235pp Provenance: Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles (1798-1870) known as the Duchesse de Berry. Mother of the Comte de Chambord, a Legitimist pretender to the French throne, she was notably behind the uprising of 1832. Another unidentified armorial bookplate is affixed opposite that of the Rosny library.

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LOUIS XVIII - MEDAL OF BIRTH on September 21, 1819 of Louise Marie Thérèse d'ARTOIS granddaughter of FRANCE, princess of the Royal House of Bourbon, born at the Élysée Palace () - rare model in gilded copper, 18.5 mm, 2.78 grams, bust of the baby, profile to the right wearing a pearl necklace, captioned around the edge - engraving by Caquet - On reverse: on 7 lines, no border "Like her august mother, she is the protector of orphans and the poor". () Granddaughter of King Louis XVIII, daughter of Charles Ferdinand d'Artois Duc de Berry and Caroline of Naples and Two Sicilies - died in Venice on February 1, 1864

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

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