Duc d'ESTRÉES, Louis Charles César LE TELLIER,... Lot 183

Duc d'ESTRÉES, Louis Charles César LE TELLIER, Marshal of France in 1757 - Letter signed "L. C. D'ESTRÉES" Paris, February 18: "I am very pleased, Monsieur, that you are satisfied with the steps I have taken for Monsieur your son. For a while I feared I might not succeed, but fortunately I have overcome all the difficulties that arose. You can understand how much I'm interested in settling the fiefs you own, which are under my authority. As they were the subject of a great discussion between M. De BOUILLON and my Father, which has only been completed since his death by your care, it is only fair that I should not fall back into the same inconveniences, and that I should seek to have a new confession and enumeration which not only establishes my future rights, but even puts me in a position to settle vis à vis M. PHILLIPE without making him unjust demands... I am sorry to press you on the project It is impossible for me to do without a formal enumeration..."