MONTBEL (de), Guillaume-Isidore (1787-1861). A.L.S., Frohsdorf 14 December 1849, to Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville.
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Baron de Montbel gives news of the court in exile to the former Minister of the Navy and French ambassador to the United States. He is the ‘only one of my [his] sex in the salon with seven women’.

"We are in trouble. You already know from the Duc de Lévis about the illness of the Archduke Ferdinand, brother of Madame la Comtesse de Chambord, and the presence of our princes in Brünn. [...] The patient had a delirious crisis. Nature did not react despite the help of art. [...] Our princes do not want to leave the patient in such a situation. [God save them from typhus. [...] At the moment we have Madame de Pimodan and her daughter in Frohsdorf, and Madame de Montebise and Madame de Poix, who have arrived without their vase, which was taken from them in Belgium, with the promise that it will be sent to them in Vienna. I am alone of my sex in the salon with seven women, like the man of abomination and desolation."
Guillaume-Isidore de Montbel was a minister under Charles X and followed the Count of Chambord into Austrian exile.

Enclosed are a L.A.S. and a L.A. from Henri V, Count de Chambord (1820-1883), legitimate pretender to the throne of France, a photo of him mounted on cardboard, and an autograph envelope with a red wax seal with the broken arms.

From the Piasa sale, 7 November 2014, then the Hubert Guerrand-Hermès collection (1940-2016).