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[Ancien Régime]
Unpublished manuscripts from the Le Semelier family, related to the famous Coypel family of painters
7 manuscripts, some unpublished, written by Thomas Antoine Nicolas Le Semelier (1729–1805) or his son Philippe Le Semelier (1770–1841), late 18th century:
‘Observations on the decree of 7 June [1791] concerning deductions to be made by debtors from their creditors’, ‘by Mr Le Semelier, an active citizen of the Tuileries section’, 21 pp. folio (as is);
‘Essay on Luxury’, manuscript with deletions and corrections, 210 pp., in-4;
‘Observations on the Theory of Luxury’, 35 pp., in-8;
‘Essay on Feudal Government’, manuscript with deletions and corrections, 132 pp., in-4;
Copies of papers or meeting reports presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris: ‘Chemistry – On a New Method of Dyeing Silk a Bright Red and Several Other Beautiful Colours’ by Macquer, 1768, manuscript, 13 pp., in-4 – ‘Effects on Thunder’, 1767, 19 pp., quarto – ‘Physics – On the Circulation of Air in Mines’, by M. Jars, 1768, 23 pp., quarto
Enclosed: a contemporary facsimile of the disavowed couplets ‘The True Package Addressed to Monsieur Boindin and Consequently the True Body of the Offence’, 8 pp. in-4, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741), poet and pamphleteer, for which he was banished from the kingdom (according to records)
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