Lot 249
STUART, CHARLES, EDWARD, CALLED "BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE", THE YOUNG PRETENDER (1720-1788)
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED AS PRINCE ("CHARLES P.") TO THE COMTE D'ARGENSON,
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Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
in French, 1 page, 4to, Paris, 1st May 1747, conveying his profound appreciation of King Louis XV's kind words "Je me flatte de la Continuation de son Amitié come aussi de lui etre un jours utille, quoique je le malheur a present dene [sic] le point etré", small stamp of the Archives d'Argenson at Poitiers
Footnote
Note: Following his defeat at Culloden on 16 April 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie traversed Scotland, pursued by Government forces, before leaving Loch nan Uamh in Lochaber by boat and arriving in France in September. The Count d'Argenson, (Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, 1696-1764), Louis XV's Secretary of State for War, was Bonnie Prince Charlie's intermediary with the French King and played a vital role in the fraught relationship between the two.