Henry de TRIQUETI (1803-1874). 7 L.A.S. to the Marquis and Marquise Édouard de LA GRANGE; 8 1/2 pages in-8 and 2 pages in-12, 2 addresses. [Édouard Lelièvre, marquis de La Grange (1796-1876) was deputy for Gironde; translator of Jean-Paul Richter, close friend of Vigny, he had married Constance de Caumont La Force (1801-1869)]. October 6, 1840, he hoped the La Grange family would visit his studio, 38 rue de l'Arcade, "to see a statue I'm finishing and which must soon leave me"; he would like to know their opinion of his work. - November 1, he hopes they are back in Paris: "I am finishing my statue and must deliver it to its new master on Thursday"... [Early 1843], on the tomb of the Duc d'Orléans. He had been "so enslaved by my work since the winter that I had to sequester myself entirely to finish the tomb of the Duc d'Orléans within the time limit set. I am nearing the end of this work, thanks be to God, and during the time it will take me to finish it, I have a great desire to submit it to Madame de la Grange's and your gaze [...] I have executed this work in a ground-floor workshop in the courtyard of the Louvre near the ticket office of the Pont des Arts, and I am always there, all day long"... To the Marquise, about the doors of the Madeleine church (1837). - May 1: "At last we have come to finish placing the Madeleine door"... - "The Madeleine door must be dismantled after this week to begin the ironwork"; he awaits their visit 15 rue des 3 bornes. - Friday morning. "We are in the process of assembling the gate and we hope, although the order came very late, to have it in place by the end of July"... Source: Château du Perthuis. Note: Michel Triquet, now Baron Michel de Triqueti (Henry's father), married Anne Marie Henriette Sophie de Salis-Samade in 1787, and settled with his family on the "Le Perthuis" estate near Montargis. Anne Marie's father, Joachim (1747-1822), was already a prominent figure in the Montargis area, as owner of Château de Vaugouard and mayor of Fontenay-sur-Loing.