GUSTAVE-ADOLPHE IV OF SWEDEN. Letter signed to a princess [probably Louise Marie-Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans, duchess of Bourbon and princess of Condé]. Karlsruhe, April 17, 1804. 1 p. in-4. "On receiving the letter from Your Highness, I recognized in it the sentiments that always characterize a noble and sensitive soul. Be convinced how much I share your regrets and that the only consolation that can soften them is that of having done everything that depended on me to prevent the fatal blow that has just struck a prince so interesting as much by his misfortunes as by his virtues. By attaching to my letter details which contain the cruel but at the same time honourable end of the Duke of Enghien, I believe that I have fulfilled your intentions dictated by sentiments so worthy of a heart such as yours... "It was in Spain, where she lived in exile, that the mother of the Duke of Enghien learned of the execution of her son in the ditches of Vincennes on March 21, 1804.
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