[NAUNDORFF Charles-Guillaume (1783?-1845) l'un des prétendus Louis XVII]

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[NAUNDORFF Charles-Guillaume (1783?-1845) l'un des prétendus Louis XVII]
ARCHIVES of more than 3000 letters or documents from his grandson, Louis-Charles-Jean-Philippe de BOURBON (NAUNDORFF) (1865-1940), and his daughter, Madeleine-Louise-Germaine de BOURBON (NAUNDORFF) (1900-1976). Important set of documents and correspondence of this grandson of Naundorff, supporter of the Naundorffist cause. * Correspondence of Louis and Madeleine de Bourbon, where are often mentioned the drama of the Temple, the Cause of Survival, the castle of Chambord and Le Crible, journal directed by Louis de Bourbon in the 1920s: about 2500 letters or copies of responses since 1907. Among the most assiduous correspondents of "Monseigneur" and the "Princess": Hans Roger Madol, the author of L'Ombre d'un roi; Paul-F. Maquat, the author of Le Fils de Louis XVI en Suisse; Geneviève de Boishéraud ("le bluet de Bretagne"); Robert Morche (Revue des indépendants); Jean-Raoul Olphe-Galliard; Marcel Plaideau; Prince Nikita Troubetzkoï... One finds there relatives and allies, Maurice Percheron, Henri Cain, as well as letters from Louis de Bourbon to Aristide Briand, to Cardinal Pacelli, to the editors of La Libre Parole, La Montagne, La Démocratie nouvelle, France-Soir, Le Figaro... * 32 notebooks and autograph notebooks of Louis or Madeleine de Bourbon: directories of addresses, letters sent and received, publications; minutes of letters; nominative directory of the former brotherhood of Saint- Michel; household accounts; reading notes; review of political or economic articles in the press, etc. Plus approximately 35 of Madeleine's class notebooks. * Files relating to the newspaper Le Crible: typed articles, letters, clippings from the Argus, copies of diplomatic or ministerial letters from 1845 concerning the Duke of Normandy. * 4 registers of correspondence (copies on paper): business correspondence from Chaigneau & Cie [Louis de Bourbon had married Léontine Chaigneau in 1921], rue des Pyramides, Paris, 1905-1907, and 1911-1912 (the last ff. bearing letters from Louis de Bourbon in 1913); letters from Madeleine, Sannois and Enghien 1940-1944, and Enghien 1944-1946. * 4 typed short stories from Louis de Bourbon. Autographed poems by Madeleine. Issues of Ofinor, a tri-weekly oriental news bulletin to which Louis submitted his prose ("Europe, éveille-toi!", 1933). * Printed matter with a.s. to Louis or Madeleine de Bourbon, by Guy de Georges de Lédenon, Renaud Fayet d'Astier, Jean-Marie Thirion. * Louis de Bourbon's checkbook, Madeleine's certificates and pay slips (stenographer), notice of Madeleine's removal from the Worker's Aid Society, invoices, insurance policies, rent receipts, occupancy allowances, inheritance expenses... More than 30 photographs, most of them studio portraits (Louis, Madeleine, the tomb of Louis' mother, etc.), invitation cards from the Royalist Legitimist Committee to a conference on Louis, numerous Louis de Bourbon business cards, the announcement of his death, numerous press clippings, history magazines, offprints from the Revue du Cercle Louis XVII...
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