MARIE ANTOINETTE: (1755-1793) Last Queen of France 1774-92, as spouse of Louis XVI. Youngest daughter of Empress ...

MARIE ANTOINETTE: (1755-1793) Last Queen of France 1774-92, as spouse of Louis XVI. Youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. During the French revolution she was known as ''Madame Deficit'' because of her lavish spending, with increasing population disliking her. Marie Antoinette was sentenced of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine at the age of 37. Rare D.S., `Antoinette´, beneath a two lines annotation in her hand, one page, 14.5 x 9.5, n.p., n.d., [c.1770], signed and annotated at the base of a letter addressed to her ''Madame La Dauphine'' by the abbot de Vermond, in French. The abbot, in the third person, states in part `The Abbot de Vermond takes the liberty of imploring the kindness and protection of Madame La Dauphine in favour of his brother, knight of St. Louis, Captain of the legion of Flandres..´ further reporting on his brother´s merits and services `..wounded and imprisoned in 1747, with his regiment almost ruined.. appointed knight of St Louis for the services rendered during the besiege of Cassel in 1761..´ and requesting `Sieur Vermond not wishing to dedicate his remaining days under the King´s service, asks Mr. the Duke of Choiseul to accept and agree, considering his wounds, a patent of Lieutenant Colonel granting eighteen hundred livres..´ and before concluding requests from Marie Antoinette `The Abbot de Vermont.. begs very humbly Madame La Dauphine to forward the request to her brother and to recommend it to Mr. The Duke of Choiseul.´ At the base of the document Marie Antoinette annotates `I particularly recommend this memoir to Mr. the Duke of Choiseul, Antoinette´. With a good Vanderley watermark. Folded, with an extremely small tear to the left edge, otherwise VG £5000-8000 Etienne-François duke of Choiseul (1719-1785) Marquis of Stainville and 1st Duke of Choiseul. French military Officer and Statesman. French Minister of Foreign Affairs 1758-61 & 1766-70.