LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). 2 L.A., Hartwell March 19 and Novem - Lot 190

LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). 2 L.A., Hartwell March 19 and November 15, 1811, to Count de LA CHATRE; 1 page and 1 page and a quarter in-4 (the 1st with mourning border), addresses, black and red wax seals of arms. March 11. He quotes Horace: "Grata superveniet quae sperabitur hora, this is precisely what the news you announce to me has done to me, for I hoped for nothing at all"; then he fondly evokes his wife, who died the previous year, and again quotes Horace: "Non omnis moriar" November 15. M. de MIRAN has just died, and the future Louis XVIII is trying to obtain a pension for his widow from the English government. He explains to La Châtre how to go about getting her at least fifteen pounds a month: "for that you have to ask for more, because you never get all of what you ask for. [He didn't know how to respond to her letter: "Mentiris impudentissime is the argument of the Capuchin of the Lettres Provinciales, I would have been as tempted as you yourself were to use it on this occasion, but poor Abbé Vanier would have been obliged to go to the meadow, so by my silence, I had to take the contents of the epistle as good as you do".