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106 - Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, Paris 1819–1925, t…
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Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, Paris 1819–1925, to Charles Dupin of the Académie des Sciences; 4 pages, in-8 or in-4 format, with addresses (one letter slightly soiled). 14 May 1819, expressing thanks for the sending of ‘your discourse on the Sciences’... – 18 September 1822, concerning their lectures at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. Clément, having left for England, will be unable to attend the improvement committee meeting, if there is one: ‘It did not strike me that he had any intention of criticising your course. All that was said between us regarding our next academic year was that, if we were to attract too much attention, we might well be treated like the Collège de France and placed under the authority of Abbé Fraissinous, or even closed down, as happened to the École Normale; that it was in our mutual interest not to utter a single sentence relating to politics and not to sound the alarm in the newspapers’”… – 11 January 1825: he asks Dupin ‘to announce in your lecture tomorrow that my course will resume next Friday. I have jotted this down on a small piece of paper so that it does not slip your mind’…
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part I
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