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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Maintenon’, to Cardinal de Bouillon, responding “directly” to his three letters by saying that she does not want to discuss the matter in hand, not offering “false excuses”, but persuaded that the cardinal will on every occasion do what is done for the best, In French [with separate typed English translation]. 2 pp. about 9 x 6 inches, docketed on receipt. Occasional very light spotting. With a fine litho portrait of Madame de Mantenon by N.H.Jacob, c.1800. Provenance: Stargardt, 5 April 1991, lot 1409. 3 February 1698. Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), second wife of King Louis XIV,