Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Important LS in French, signed “Louis,” one page, 6.5 x 8.5, June 7, 1707. A historic letter to Hungarian national hero and ruler of Transylvania Prince Ferenc II Rakoczi, occasional ally of Louis XIV who he would abandon the following month, after Rakoczi tried to depose the House of Hapsburg from the Hungarian throne. In full (translated): “Although I cannot doubt of your feelings on my behalf after the signs that I have received with great pleasure and the new assurances that you give me of these feelings in the letter you wrote me on April 9th concerning the happy birth of the Duke of Brittany my great-grandson; and as I am intimately persuaded of the sincerity of the expressions you use to display your joy from so considerable an event, you should know also that, interested as I am in your welfare, I have been particularly pleased to learn that your authority has been recognized in Transylvania and that I will always give you with pleasure signs of my protection and of the particular esteem in which I hold you. This being said, I pray God that He keep you, my cousin, in His holy and Worthy guardianship.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, vertical filing cuts to left edge, and a couple of spots near signature. The Duke of Brittany was Louis XIV’s heir until he died of smallpox in 1712 at the age of five. Louis XIV was eventually succeeded three years later by his younger great-grandson Louis XV. Letters of Louis XIV that go beyond mere formalities and express such a strong view on an important foreign policy matter are rare.
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