Château de CHOISY-LE-ROI (VAL-DE-MARNE). Letter signed Charl - Lot 132

Château de CHOISY-LE-ROI (VAL-DE-MARNE). Letter signed Charles-Étienne LE PELLETIER DE BEAUPRÉ, Conseiller ordinaire du Roi Louis XV, concerning his unpaid advances for "Service alimentaire pour la personne du Roy" made at the Château de Choisy-le-Roi. The Marquise de POMPADOUR was a frequent visitor to Choisy. Fine dinners were given "à la Française" - Letter signed by BAUPRÉ, Paris, July 25, 1759, 4 folio pages. Ruined, indebted for the service of Louis XV's Mouth, the latter gave up on doing the Choisy service: "I do not foresee being able to do the service of CHOISY, and I have the honor of informing you of this, so that you may have the goodness to take the measures you deem necessary. You will not be surprised by this event, Sir, because you know my situation inside out. I have the same zeal, but I no longer have the same credit, nor the same means, ... having made two million eighty thousand livres more in supplies than I have received in money... In this state of abandonment I cannot bring myself to make a bad service, that of Choisy suffers nothing but the beautiful, the rare and the expensive. To have this beautiful, this expensive, you need money. The little I had left was used for St Hubert, for which I had been assured that supplies amounting to more than 40,000 livres would be paid, and for which I have not received a sol... I don't want to fail at Choisy, nor to be the cause of the House's discredit. You will therefore excuse me, if you please, from serving there, and if the King (Louis XV) were informed of the efforts I made before admitting my inadequacy, he would be the first to say that a hundred subjects like me in his Kingdom would be enough to spare his heart the regret of having to resort to taxes... De BEAUPRÉ." - LE PELETIER DE BEAUPRÉ, Charles-Étienne (1702-1785), Intendant of Champagne (1730), Conseiller d'État semestre (1749), then ordinaire (1761), Conseiller au Conseil royal de commerce (1783). His daughter Louise-Suzanne Le Peletier de Beaupré (1737-1762), married Michel-Étienne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau (Yonne).