DUCHÂTEL MARIE-ANTOINETTE ADÈLE (1782-1860) Autograph letter signed to ‘Monsieur’, 1836.

Lot 84

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1 p. in-8, traces of folds inherent in the sending. Good condition. She reminded him of the hope he had been kind enough to give Mr Delige (?) ‘of a tobacconist’s when there would be a holiday’... She would be very grateful for anything he would ‘do for him’. Marie-Antoinette Adèle Duchâtel (née Papin). Wife of Charles Jacques Nicolas Duchâtel, a senior civil servant thirty years her senior, lady-in-waiting to Josephine, she became Napoleon’s mistress in 1804.

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