MARIE-DOROTHÉE, archiduchesse d'Autriche, duchesse d'Orléans (1867-1932)

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MARIE-DOROTHÉE, archiduchesse d'Autriche, duchesse d'Orléans (1867-1932)
Set of 4 L.A.S.: "Marie", addressed to Count Paul Laffleur de Kermaingant (1843-1920), dating from 1907 to 1913, various formats, on letterheaded paper with the arms of the Habsbourg-Orléans alliance. Attached are 2 L.A.S. of the Duchess, addressed to the Countess of Kermaingant, née Marguerite Binder (1853-1923), dated 1899 and 1900. Text in French, 32 pages. Text: - August 21, 1912: "It is from the bottom of my heart that I come to thank you for such a beautiful and touching good letter! It has moved me, believe me, because I have found there Your faithful good old affection which has always done me so much good! Dear old Friend, if I were at this moment, as I was in the past, beside You, in that poor dear Norton sacrificed, (and sacrificed for what cause, my God!) I would confidently tell You my sufferings, my terrible anxieties, and my story would not be short! If I wrote everything down to You, it would be a whole volume. All I can tell You in writing is that things have happened to such an extent that my duty did not dictate that I should clearly refuse the role of fifth wheel to the car. The unfortunate Prince is so much under the domination of the harmful influence that we know, that there is no longer any will or personal judgment. I told him last November that if he never wanted to see me again, he had to break off from the other side for good, because the one who is holding him is paid by Fallières to sink him completely. I know this for a fact. She is leading him straight to disaster ! I will fight to the end to save him, may God open his eyes, because at this moment he has been made to believe, that it is I who wants to lose him, and because it is she who told him so, he believes it, and there is no ugly story that he does not make me, pushed by her, and more mad and blind than ever, he is convinced that it is I who am his enemy. It is this person's rage against me, for he knows that I will not rest, and that I will do everything to save th
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