Emigration. SIGNED LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF BROGLIE TO COUNT DE LOSTANGES, colonel of the Royal Picardie Regiment in Namur, October 27, 1791. 18913-4

Emigration. SIGNED LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF BROGLIE TO COUNT DE LOSTANGES*, colonel of the Royal Picardie Regiment in Namur, October 27, 1791. 18913-4

"Schönbornslun, 27 October 1791"
"The project you have proposed to me, Sir, could face very great difficulties, according to the various orders successively given by Madame the Governess of the Netherlands to thwart the French Émigrés. I thought that nothing could be done to pass a part of the Royal Picardie regiment, except in conjunction with Mr. de La Chastrie**, who has been in contact with the Austrian generals for a long time: it is therefore necessary that you share your views with him, and find out from him the means he believes are feasible, either to get the cavalry of this Regiment out of France and have them cross the Luxembourg with their horses by putting the weapons in crates, or to establish a company of Officers in Namur or its surroundings. So you must write on these subjects to Mr. de La Chastrie* and follow what he may inform you, of which I ask to be informed.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your very humble and obedient servant.
Signed: Duke of Broglie***."

1 and a half handwritten pages, double page with one blank. Size: H 19.5 cm x 15.5 cm.
Fold marks, very good condition.

* Henri Adhémar de Saint-Alvère, Marquis de Lostanges, born on May 13, 1755 in Versailles and died on June 7, 1807 in London, was a French officer.
A knight, sub-lieutenant in the Royal-Piémont regiment (1772), he was promoted to captain in the Royal-Cravates in 1778 and then became second captain the following year, second lieutenant colonel of the Durfort regiment (1780), he became colonel of the Royal-Picardie (1787-1791). Knight of the Order of Saint Louis (1789-1791), he emigrated in 1792 to Düsseldorf and in 1794 was captain of the émigrés of the Duke of Mortemart in the service of the British. He was promoted in 1797 to the rank of maréchal de camp in exile.

** La Chastre, La Châtre.

*** de Broglie (Victor, French, Count, Duke, and Prince of). 1718-1804. Marshal of France in 1759.
During the Revolution, he joined the Army of Princes and commanded the Army of Condé.
Victor-François, 2nd Duke of Broglie, 1st Prince of Broglie, of the Holy Roman Empire, (pronounced "de Breuil"), born on October 19, 1718 in Paris, at the Hôtel de Broglie, Rue Saint-Dominique, and died on March 30, 1804 in Münster, Germany, was a French aristocrat and military officer under the Ancien Régime, general marshal of the king's camps and armies. He later participated in the battles in the counter-revolutionary army of the Prince de Condé.