DEMOISELLES DE SAINT-CYR - VERSAILLES (78)... - Lot 112 - Vermot et Associés

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DEMOISELLES DE SAINT-CYR - VERSAILLES (78)... - Lot 112 - Vermot et Associés
DEMOISELLES DE SAINT-CYR - VERSAILLES (78) March 3, 1744. Letter signed MONDIET Major, Rue de l'ORANGERIE, vis à vis les Voitures de la Cour, chez M. FOURNIER, addressed to Monsieur DE NAU Merchant DRAPIER Rue Saint Honoré au Lion d'Argent, à Paris - Wax stamp with arms at the opening. 2 1/2 pages in-4°: "I learned from Mr. TRUCHON, Former Captain, cy-devant in the Regiment of POITOU, which makes me the honor to be of my friends, that I could propose you one thousand ecus which I have to take of the Dotation of my daughter whom I withdrew from ST-CYR one year ago, and who had wanted to make herself Religious of the Park to the Ladies close to CRÉPY IN VALOIS where her health did not allow her to complete her novitiate. As she still intended to become a nun, he asked her to take this money as an annuity and to return it to him in two or three years. "You know, Sir, the difficulties that the Ladies of SAINT-CYR admit in securing the dowry of the Demoiselles who leave,..."
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