FAVRAS Affair. The future LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824), and Thoma - Lot 77

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FAVRAS Affair. The future LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824), and Thoma - Lot 77
FAVRAS Affair. The future LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824), and Thomas de Mahy, marquis of FAVRAS (1744-1790, lieutenant of the Swiss Guards of Monsieur, he was implicated in a conspiracy of the count of Provence; condemned to be hanged, he kept silent and did not reveal his accomplices) 2 autograph documents, December 1789. Two very rare documents on this mysterious conspiracy to escape Louis XVI. Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, Comte de PROVENCE.Autograph bill, Friday 18 [December 1789, probably to his treasurer general Papillon de la Ferté]; 3 lines on a page in-8, address cut out with black wax seal of arms. "I have to talk to you, Sir, about an urgent, important and secret business, so find you tomorrow morning when I get up".The addressee of the bill has written afterwards: "Billet de Monsieur du 18 Xbre 1789. I went to the orders of the prince this day Saturday 19 Xbre for a particular loan to make of two million ". These lines are followed by a note: "The two lines above are in the handwriting of Monsieur le dix huit. It is the loan which gave place to the Favras affair for which Mrs Morel Chefdeville and la Ferté were arrested". Thomas de Mahy, marquis of FAVRAS. L.A.S., Prison of the Abbey December 31, 1789, to his relative, Madame de Mahy-Savonnière, at M. de Beaumarchais; 3 pages in-8, address, black wax seal with the arms of Paris. Interesting letter written eight days after his incarceration and fifty days before his execution... "the adversity I am experiencing is apparently due to the anxiety of the circumstances: I would not be affected by it, if it were not for the unpleasant impressions given by public papers about alleged plots on my part that are announced to be based on proofs, acquired in my papers, of premeditated attacks against the King, the Nation, MM.Necker, Bailly and de la Fayette: I admit that it is difficult not to feel deeply moved by such impostures, when one is not in a position to repel them as they deserve: - But finally, I will perhaps have the liberty some day to take these detestable folliculars to task [...] It is already eight days of detention and eight days of secrecy, but this is very hard and very cruel". He speaks of his "admirable" wife, also incarcerated, "giving herself over to the anguish of her soul about the fate I may experience, about the place where I am detained; she has written me a charming letter in which she congratulates me on sharing my fate, saying that it makes the happiness of her life [...For the past three days, the affair, according to what the gentlemen of the Research Committee have written to me, has been denounced to the Chatelet in order to be brought to justice; this was the most ardent of my wishes; the one I am making today is that the search be completed, assuming that this will be the end of secrecy and that he will at last be reunited with his family and his friends.Greeting "our good friend [Beaumarchais]: I do not use yet the obliging services that you offer me; but fear that I do not abuse them". old collection Jean Ellenstein (1980, n° 722). Two documents are joined, bearing long relations and autograph annotations of LE BLANC, lawyer at the Parliament - Printed: Judgment in last resort [...] Which condemns Thomas de Mahy de Favras..., February 18, 1790 (4 p. in-4); following, autogr. note of Le Blanccontaining the courageous death of Favras. - L.A.S. from CAFFARY, Director of the Messageries, February 24, 1790, to Le Blanc (p. in-4, adr.), giving the names of two travelers from Metz to Paris from December 17 to 20; long commentary by Le Blanc, recounting his trip with Favras hidden under the pseudonym of the Marquis de Marainville...
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