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VICTOIRE (Victoire de Bourbon, known as Madame). Autograph letter signed "Victoire", to Marshal de Castries. Albano-Laziale, September 1, 1796. One p. in-8 square, address on spine, red wax seal. "I thank you... for the good news you give me of the King, you must judge the state I was in when I learned of the horrible misfortune, and at the same time what happiness to have saved him, I do not understand that my health could have resisted [in July 1796, Louis XVIII had suffered an attack in the town of Dillingen in Rhenish Prussia]. I thank you again, we have only had one letter from Mr de La Vauguion, and one from Mr d'Avaray [Paul-François de Quélen, duc de la Vauguyon, and Antoine-Louis-François de Béziade, comte and future duc d'Avaray, companions of Louis XVIII in exile]. Couriers take so long to reach us, it's one more misfortune, especially in times of great anxiety. I am delighted to have you with the King. I envy you a little, I don't think you doubt it. You are quite right, Monsieur, to count on my friendship. I embrace you with all my heart. Adélayde has asked me to thank you for the good news you have given us from the King...". MADAME VICTOIRE, ONE OF LOUIS XV'S DAUGHTERS, whom he affectionately nicknamed "Coche" in reference to her stoutness, remained unmarried and was very close to her sister Madame Adélaïde: both women were always hostile to their father's mistresses, notably the Marquise de Pompadour, and were the only surviving siblings when the Revolution broke out. Authorized by the Assembly to leave France in 1790, they fled to Italy, where they had to flee again and again as revolutionary troops advanced. Madame Victoire never returned to France and died in emigration, in Trieste, in 1799.
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VICTOIRE (Victoire de Bourbon, known as Madame). Autograph letter signed "Victoire", to Marshal de Castries. Albano-Laziale, September 1, 1796. One p. in-8 square, address on spine, red wax seal. "I thank you... for the good news you give me of the King, you must judge the state I was in when I learned of the horrible misfortune, and at the same time what happiness to have saved him, I do not understand that my health could have resisted [in July 1796, Louis XVIII had suffered an attack in the town of Dillingen in Rhenish Prussia]. I thank you again, we have only had one letter from Mr de La Vauguion, and one from Mr d'Avaray [Paul-François de Quélen, duc de la Vauguyon, and Antoine-Louis-François de Béziade, comte and future duc d'Avaray, companions of Louis XVIII in exile]. Couriers take so long to reach us, it's one more misfortune, especially in times of great anxiety. I am delighted to have you with the King. I envy you a little, I don't think you doubt it. You are quite right, Monsieur, to count on my friendship. I embrace you with all my heart. Adélayde has asked me to thank you for the good news you have given us from the King...". MADAME VICTOIRE, ONE OF LOUIS XV'S DAUGHTERS, whom he affectionately nicknamed "Coche" in reference to her stoutness, remained unmarried and was very close to her sister Madame Adélaïde: both women were always hostile to their father's mistresses, notably the Marquise de Pompadour, and were the only surviving siblings when the Revolution broke out. Authorized by the Assembly to leave France in 1790, they fled to Italy, where they had to flee again and again as revolutionary troops advanced. Madame Victoire never returned to France and died in emigration, in Trieste, in 1799.
