Lot n° 259
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 390EUR
ROBERT, prince d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1840-1910) - Lot 259
ROBERT, prince d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1840-1910)
Set of 6 L.A.S.: "R d'Orléans", Le Nouvion, Fredensborg, Château d'Eu, Balmoral, Glen Spean Lodge, dated July 15, 1885 to April 22, 1886, addressed to his aunt Princess Clémentine d'Orléans de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (1817-1907), 20 1/2 pages, text in French, folds, overall good condition.
-September 17, 1885: "Fredensborg (...) it is agreed that the religious marriage of Marie [Princess Marie d'Orléans with Prince Waldemar of Denmark] will take place in Eu on Thursday, October 22. We will have previously held the civil wedding in Paris only with Waldemar, Marie and the witnesses. The Queen of Denmark, the King (or Prince Royal) of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of Wales and probably the Duchess of Cumberland will attend the religious wedding in Eu and represent the future's family. I don't know what arrangements my father will make, but I hope that all my uncles will attend the wedding, especially as they will probably be able to come and go from Paris on the same day. I don't know if any of your sons will be in France then, but I'm glad that you and your part of the family will be represented. The Prince of Wales leaves, I believe, next week for Hungary. The Princess remains here - will go to Eu with her mother and meet the Prince there to return to England. Marie continues to be very happy and we are very pleased with everything we see here (...)". - October 3, 1885 "Eu (...) we ask you to come from Paris to Eu with my father-in-law and mother-in-law on the 20th. If you are in Paris on the 19th, come and dine with us. Arrangements have been made here for you and Ferdinand to stay with my in-laws. The Danish family arrives on the 21st. There's a hunt on the 23rd and they leave again on the 24th (...)". - November 30, 1885: "I'm off to Gmunden tomorrow to bid farewell to Marie and to accept the Cumberlands' kind invitation. I expect to arrive in Gmunden on Thursday morning and leave on Saturday evening or Sunday morning. I regret that this time I cannot push on to Vienna to pay my respects [he refers to the death of King Alfonso XII on November 25, 1885], but that would take me too far. I wrote to Ferdinand that if he was in Linz I would go and see him on Saturday or Sunday morning (...) I spent two days in Paris with my brother and Isabelle at the time of King Alfonso's death. Isabelle was deeply affected by it, and in many ways it was a great loss for her non-brother. We're having some lovely hunts here in this dreadful weather of rain and wind (...)". - April 5, 1886: "Balmoral (...) I would have liked so much to talk with you. Uncle Aumale had asked ... to speak only at this hour if and I had let him arrange the whole affair from Paris. I had written from Paris to Uncle Montpensier and Antoine to tell them to have dinner. Only on false information and I had sent (2 letters) to the London hotel (...) did my letters arrive? We had a good trip, we all visited a new exhibition which is charming (...) I am sad that my Marie who had a little accident after I left Copenhagen. It's all over now, but she'd rather we didn't talk about it. I was very happy to kiss Aumale's hand and I would also have liked to have a chat with him, would you please tell him (...)-July 15, undated (1886): "Le Nouvion, My dear Aunt, you will no doubt allow me to give you some news without commenting on Uncle's admirable letter, which so well defended all the family's servicemen, nor on the decree which ...., a real lettre de cachet served yesterday without even being published nor on all the lies ... in the gallery of the Chamber on July 13. I came here as soon as I heard about the decree the night before last. Uncle is in good health, very calm and composed. I'm afraid he's suffering a lot inside, but he doesn't want to show it. He wanted to leave as simply as possible, the luggage will leave and we'll drive to Belgium to take the train. We'll be at the Hotel de Flandre in Brussels at 6am. Uncle thinks he'll stay there a few days and then go to England to the Norton (...) I'll leave him in Brussels and go get Chiquita and the children to take them to England too, probably on Sunday (...)".
History: the last undated letter was written at 5 a.m., no doubt alluding to the Duc d'Aumale's letter of protest addressed to the President of the Republic, Jules Grévy, on July 11, 1886, in response to the exile law promulgated on June 22, 1886, condemning all members of the family who had ruled France to exile. The Duc d'Aumale wrote to Jules Grevy: "It is my duty to remind you that military ranks are above your reach".
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