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CONDÉ (Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, prince de). Autograph letter signed to Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare. Kapfenberg near Bruck-an-der-Mur [in Austria, 15 km from Leoben], December 31, 1800. One p. in-4 on a half-page column. "I beg M. l'év[êqu]e de Nancy to kindly send the included to Petersburg, by the first opportunity he can find.... We are awaiting our fate; if he has penetrated something, it will be a pleasure for him to tell me, through the return of c[om]te Alexandre de Damas [then an officer in Condé's army], he will also be able to write to me frankly what he thinks about all this, both for the present, and for the future. What events! And how dearly we pay for the blindness of selfishness and ambition! The North and the interior have always been and always will be our only resource; let's not despair..." Faced with countless difficulties, not least financial, the Prince de Condé placed his army of French émigrés at the service of Russia. Stationed for a time in Volhynia (at Doubno near Loutsk in today's Ukraine), it was employed as part of the second coalition in the Austro-Russian operations carried out in Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1800. The Prince de Condé had to lead his men to Rottenmann in Styria, to defend the Enns line threatened by General Moreau's advance towards Vienna. Moreau's victory at Hohenlinden on December 3, 1800 led to the signing of an armistice at Steyr on December 25, 1800, and the withdrawal of Austrian troops from northern Austria. Discovered on his right, and threatened by a resumption of hostilities, the Prince de Condé left Rottenmann to march eastwards. France's leading royalist agent in Europe, Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare (1752-1829) was bishop of Nancy before the Revolution. He was elected to the Estates General and defended the rights of the clergy, fiercely opposing revolutionary principles. He was one of the first to emigrate, taking refuge in Vienna in 1792 with a letter of recommendation from Marie-Antoinette. From 1795 onwards, he was Louis XVIII's chargé d'affaires in this capital, the relay for correspondence between the princes, and the main agent for émigrés on the continent. Returning to France in 1814, he continued to serve the interests of the former émigrés and took part in the reorganization of the Church of France. He was made chaplain to the Duchess of Angouleme, Archbishop of Sens, Cardinal, Minister of State and Peer of France.
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CONDÉ (Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, prince de). Autograph letter signed to Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare. Kapfenberg near Bruck-an-der-Mur [in Austria, 15 km from Leoben], December 31, 1800. One p. in-4 on a half-page column. "I beg M. l'év[êqu]e de Nancy to kindly send the included to Petersburg, by the first opportunity he can find.... We are awaiting our fate; if he has penetrated something, it will be a pleasure for him to tell me, through the return of c[om]te Alexandre de Damas [then an officer in Condé's army], he will also be able to write to me frankly what he thinks about all this, both for the present, and for the future. What events! And how dearly we pay for the blindness of selfishness and ambition! The North and the interior have always been and always will be our only resource; let's not despair..." Faced with countless difficulties, not least financial, the Prince de Condé placed his army of French émigrés at the service of Russia. Stationed for a time in Volhynia (at Doubno near Loutsk in today's Ukraine), it was employed as part of the second coalition in the Austro-Russian operations carried out in Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1800. The Prince de Condé had to lead his men to Rottenmann in Styria, to defend the Enns line threatened by General Moreau's advance towards Vienna. Moreau's victory at Hohenlinden on December 3, 1800 led to the signing of an armistice at Steyr on December 25, 1800, and the withdrawal of Austrian troops from northern Austria. Discovered on his right, and threatened by a resumption of hostilities, the Prince de Condé left Rottenmann to march eastwards. France's leading royalist agent in Europe, Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare (1752-1829) was bishop of Nancy before the Revolution. He was elected to the Estates General and defended the rights of the clergy, fiercely opposing revolutionary principles. He was one of the first to emigrate, taking refuge in Vienna in 1792 with a letter of recommendation from Marie-Antoinette. From 1795 onwards, he was Louis XVIII's chargé d'affaires in this capital, the relay for correspondence between the princes, and the main agent for émigrés on the continent. Returning to France in 1814, he continued to serve the interests of the former émigrés and took part in the reorganization of the Church of France. He was made chaplain to the Duchess of Angouleme, Archbishop of Sens, Cardinal, Minister of State and Peer of France.
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