LYAUTEY, Mme la maréchale (1862-1953)

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LYAUTEY, Mme la maréchale (1862-1953)
Set of 8 L.A.S. and C.A.S.: "La Maréchale Lyautey", addressed to Countess Xavier de Villeneuve-Bargemont, née Yvonne Laffleur de Kermaingant, lady-in-waiting of the Duchess of Guise (1873-1967), undated, some letters are on her monogrammed letterhead. Text in French, 14 pages. Text: - Undated: "Our feast has been the entourage of our friends, among them you have been among them for a long time, and, moreover, both of you spoil me by sending me pink sketches. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! How I understand you, I who cannot without trouble see again what evokes the dear countries of Africa" - 25 September (no date): "Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your thought which comes to me in my deep sadness. With my aunt a whole past disappears, a family centre is destroyed! Life at my age is a road strewn with loved graves, one can only evoke memories! (...)" - 4 May (no date): "I was happy to learn that you were on duty with Madame during her stay in Paris. The Marshal asked you to be with her of ours at lunch on 24 May, 1 a.m. I would have asked you to do so if it had not been your turn to be on duty. Our meeting will be very simple as a framework, we are unfortunately no longer at the Residence, but I am sure of the indulgence of Madame [the Duchess of Guise] (...).)" - 11 January (no date): "I wanted to ask you, Madam [Duchess of Guise], to accept my congratulations on the birth of Princess Isabella's daughter, which you have told me about; I am told that Madam has left for Palermo and I have come to ask you to be my intermediary with Her Royal Highness and to wish her good health for the one who is being born into life. I do not know Princess Isabel's address, otherwise I would have gone to ask for her news (...)" -4 September (no date): "You join in my cruel sorrow, I would have liked to thank you immediately, but this so unexpected catastrophe has destroyed me. The emptiness left in my heart by the eternal departure of the Marshal has anni
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