"LOUIS XV SIGNED CERTIFICATE OF ADMISSION TO SAINT-CYR SCHOOL" in Favor of the Lady Marie Henriette de Puch de Montbreton
Countersigned by Louis III PHELYPEAUX (1705-1777) Duke de la Vrillière, count of Saint-Florentin. Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of the Order 
of the Holy Spirit from 1756 to 1770, he was Minister of State in 1761 and Secretary of State at the Maison du Roi to Louis XV from 1749 to 1775
Size: 13" x 10" (33 cm x 25.4 cm) 
Certificate of Place in Saint-Cyr
in favor of the Lady
de Puch de Monbreton

"Today the nineteenth of January seventeen seventy-two	
de Montbreton at birth, age and other qualifications required to be
admitted to the number of Daughters who must be received into the Royal household
of St Louis established at St.-Cyr as it appeared by title deeds 
certificates and other proofs in accordance with the letters patent of the 
month of June one thousand six hundred eighty-six and March one thousand six hundred 
ninety-four, His Majesty granted her one of the two hundred and fifty places 
of the said house, enjoining the superior to receive her without delay, 
make her give the proper instructions, and make her enjoy the 
same benefits enjoyed by other Girls under this 
patent which His Majesty has for assurance of his will, sign with his hand and
countersigned by me Minister and Secretary of State and his commandments
and finances."

LOUIS
Phelypeaux 

On the back side: 
Certificate of admission to Saint-Cyr Marie Henriette de Puch M de Monbreton 1760 - the year mentioned 1760 is probably the year of birth of the young lady who would 
therefore be 12 years old.
Located in Saint-Cyr near Versailles, the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis is a boarding school for young girls created in 1686 by King Louis XIV at the request of Madame 
de Maintenon. This boarding school was intended for young girls of the nobility without wealth.

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), was the unofficial second wife of Louis XIV. The widow of the poet Paul Scarron, she was hired as governess to the 
children that Louis XIV had with his mistress Madame de Montespan and gradually grew closer to the king. Shortly after the death of Queen Maria Theresa in 1683, Louis XIV 
and Maintenon are believed to have married in a secret ceremony. The actual extent of her political and religious influence during the second part of the reign remains a matter 
of debate. A pious and cultivated woman with a profound interest in pedagogy, Maintenon founded the boarding school of Saint-Cyr for girls from impoverished noble families. 
Situated on the southwestern edge of the park of Versailles, the school buildings now house a military academy created by Napoleon.
Related to this document information found in the book “SAINT-CYR AVANT LE THÉATRE “

Page 279 - Marie-Henriette de Puch.
Page 5 – Le Journal de Dangeau, which we will often consult, gives the precise date of the inauguration of Saint Cyr:
“Monday August 29, 1686. The young ladies who are in Noisy began to leave. They will be three or four days to move. M. Lavallée says that the entire community went to Saint-Cyr 
 July 30 to August 2. It is based on a letter, the original of which is not dated, and in which Madame de Maintenon assumes that the translation from Noisy to Saint-Cyr "could" 
begin on July 30. About this very slight error, let us say once and for all that Dangeau, whose accuracy has often been joked about but never disputed, writes from day to day, and 
cannot be mistaken. The journey was made with pomp: the King lent his carriages and his livery; the Swiss of his household served as escort. At the head walked priests carrying the 
cross and the relics of Saint Candide. These relics, enclosed in a crystal shrine covered with a white moire embroidered with gold, had been sent by the Pope to Madame de Maintenon in 1683. 
6 THE THEATER OF SAINT-CYR The letters patent quoted above are from June 1686. Dangeau was immediately aware of it, for, on June 6, he gives us a complete analysis of it in his Journal:

“The King has given letters patent for the establishment of the community of Saint-Cyr and for part of the foundation, which must be 50,000 écus income; he has united the abbey mense of the 
abbey of Saint-Denis, which amounts to about 100,000 francs. Madame de Maintenon will be the general manager; Madame de Brinon will be superior of the community, and Abbé Gobelin will 
be ecclesiastical superior with a pension of 2,000 francs. There will be thirty-six Ladies, twenty-four Lay Saurs and two hundred and fifty Maidens; the Ladies and the Demoiselles give evidence 
of three races or of hundreds of nobility, and d'Hozier is the genealogist!»