Author: [LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel.
Title: [Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink.
Description: [2] pp.Manuscript letter by the French minister of War Daniel Voysin de La Noiraye (1655-1717), addressed to "Monseigneur de V.A.S.". V.A.S. stands for "Votre Altesse Sérénissime" (Your Serene Highness ), which in this case is Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (1670-1736), the favourite (legitimised) son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan, whose name is noted twice in another, contemporary hand. Voysin requests to have a new artillery officer appointed, for the troops in Bouchain, France. This would concerns Louis-Auguste's own regiment, the "Regiment du Maine, taking part of the War of the Spanish Succession and sent in 1710 to Flanders.Old folds, and some foxing and minor tears along the extremities, otherwise good.

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