Anne-Françoise de FOUGERET, née Doutremont (1745-1813), founder of the Société de Charité maternelle. Autograph manuscript, Mes adieux a mes enfans, [1806 ?]; 29-page in-4 notebook, bound with a green ribbon. Beautiful spiritual testament. It begins as follows: "My dear children, there is nothing stable, nothing immutable in the world, what necessity, prudence, even wisdom build is subject to time, and to events, and we see the edifice of happiness that we had raised with so much care and pain crumble without old age leaving us the power and hope to begin our traveaux again"... She recalls her parents, her marriage, her children; the upheaval brought about by the Revolution, and the loss of her fortune; the marriage of her daughter Angélique to M. de Maussion, "our comrade in arms". de Maussion, "our comrade in misfortune"; the return to her family's land at Chateaurenard, and its ruin; her servants, and more. At the end, a note from her granddaughter Anne Pinson de Ménerville, née Maussion (1794-1879), February 13, 1872. Enclosed: - a manuscript, Tableau des progrès de la Société de la charité maternelle depuis le 2 may 1778 jusqu'au 1er may 1789 (notebook, 8p. in-fol.); - a convention sous seing privé de Mme de Fougeret avec ses enfants, signed by her, her four daughters and their husbands, January 27-28, 1807 (4p. in-4); - an important file of accounts, consultations, various deeds, concerning the management of Mme de Fougeret's fortune and property, the sale of Chateaurenard, her estate; with the wills of her daughter Anne-Marie de Ménerville.