François-Joachim de Pierre de BERNIS (1715–1794), ambassador and minister of foreign affairs, cardinal, and poet (Académie Française). L.A., Rome, August 25, 1792, to a “dear Lord and nephew”; 1 page, in-4 On the Day of August 10. He shared his nephew’s letter with the Ladies [Louis XVI’s aunts], “who read it with all the more interest, as they had just learned from Genoa what had happened on the 9th at the Tuileries. The King hangs by a thread, both in life and in the crown! He is reduced to the deepest misery, and it was the Swiss—not the French—who, by sacrificing their lives, prevented him and his family from being massacred; it is under these circumstances that I am about to celebrate his feast day with great pomp in our national church!”…