MAINE-ET-LOIRE. WALSH de SERRANT family. Autograph letter si - Lot 404

MAINE-ET-LOIRE. WALSH de SERRANT family. Autograph letter signed by Antoine WALSH DE SERRANT, 1 page small in-4, Paris, March 30, 1807, Followed by an autograph subscription signed by Louise Comtesse de WALSH DE SERRANT: Both recommend to an Ambassador, the canon M. Le Noir (former Grand Vicaire of Angers), and M. de Preaux ("young man of 22, very rich owner and from one of the best families in my department") who are traveling together. The Comtesse specifies that she has asked Mr. Le Noir to send her some merinos (sheep from Spain), "you would be very kind to facilitate the means. I have made a large establishment in my lands", and she would be delighted to acquire a few of the finest breed. Louise de RIGAUD DE VAUDREUIL, Countess WALSH de SERRANT [1770-1831]. Her great-grandfather Philippe de Rigaud was Governor of New France (Canada) in 1703. Her father was Governor of Saint Domingue. Exiled during the Revolution to London, she married Antoine WALSH DE SERRANT [1744-1817], Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies. In 1804, she was appointed Dame du Palais to Empress Josephine. Appreciated by Emperor Napoleon, she was his reader. In August 1808, Napoleon honored Louise with a visit to the Château de SERRANT (Maine-et-Loire).