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Autograph letter (unsigned).
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Exceedingly rare letter to her sister Marie-Christine d'Autrich. The future Paul I, who is currently on a mission to the Kingdom of France for his mother Catherine II, was charged as an unofficial ambassador with requesting the benevolent neutrality of Louis XVI regarding the partition of the Ottoman Empire that Russia and Austria had been secretly planning since 1780. For his occasion, the Tsarevich and his wife Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg traveled incognito under the name of comte et comtesse du Nord. Marie-Antoinette, at the request of her brother (the Austrian emperor Joseph II), paid special attention to her two hosts.