Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de MAINTENON (1635-1719) secret wife of Louis XIV, founder of the house of Saint-Cyr for young girls. L.A.S. (initials), Saint-Germain June 7 [1676], to her cousin Mme de Villette, in Niort; 1 1/2 pages in-4, address, small red wax seal (broken). "I do not know if M. de Villette has told you that his son was slightly wounded on this last occasion [the naval battle of Agosta, April 22] but I know that you do not expect the compliment I am going to give you, which is that I am delighted with it. I will let the King and Mme de Montespan know, and when the first movement of tenderness has passed, I am sure that you will think as I do, and that you will be grateful to yourself for having given birth to a little hero [....] you have the prettiest and the most surprising child that we have seen "... She sends her greetings to him and to Mme de Mougon and assures him that she keeps "a lot of tenderness for my relatives, you know that you are not treated as an ally".