LOUIS XV. Autograph letter signed "Louis" to the... Lot 28

LOUIS XV. Autograph letter signed "Louis" to the duke of Parma and Plaisance, Ferdinand de Bourbon. Palace of Compiègne, September 21, 1766. 1 p. in-4, address on the back with red wax armorial seal kept. "My dear grandson, is it true that the pce de Brunvick resembles your poor father, I would believe it enough by this portrait, and by all that I was told. I had another good cold, but it is better since I took some whey for two days, and a little theriac in the evening. Summer has come back to us, and I had more heat yesterday while hunting than I have had all year. This will do a lot of good for the harvest. We are all leaving here in the course of this week, so my first letter will be from Versailles. I kiss you very tenderly, my dear little son... Yesterday we had a beautiful ceremony which was that of the ordination which was done by the bishop of Soissons in the chapel, there were twenty-nine ordinands. Grandson of Louis XV by his mother, and grandson of King Bourbon of Spain, Ferdinand de Bourbon had the Abbé de Condillac as his tutor.