[Louis XV] - Lettre d'un témoin oculaire de l'attentat de Damiens - 1757

Important letter from the Marquis de Croismare, an officer of the bodyguards, about the Damiens assassination attempt in 1757; letter written to a friend giving interesting details on the assassin's serene demeanor and the consequences of the attack on the King’s mind.

"The king is in good health (...) but it is true that a wretch committed upon him the most enormous attack, which luckily had no aftermath, the wound being only in the flesh and with no danger; the day after it had fully closed and there was no sign (...) He received this blow in the midst of all his guard and of the court at the moment he was leaving the small guard room to get into carriages going to Trianon (...) the king initially believed that he had only been given a punch, but after putting his hand to it, he pulled it away, covered in blood, which made him realize that he had been wounded."

Very good condition. Provenance: old Saint-Hélion collection.

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