Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du MAINE (1670-1736) legitimate son of Louis XIV and la Montespan, lieutenant general, Grand Master of the Artillery. L.S., Versailles 21 December 1714, to M. le Chancelier 2 pages in-4: "The officers of the Swiss Regiment of Villarschandieu have reason to be saddened by the affront they received in Landau concerning their privileges. They suffered very patiently and without any resistance the sale of their provisions at the auction with the sound of the drum which is an avanie of which there had been until now no example"... He praised their docility, but asks the Chancellor "to make them leave this garrison to put them in another or their privileges would not be problematic"...