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171 - Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT (1727–1781).
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Estimate €600 - €800
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Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT (1727–1781). L.A., Versailles, Sunday 21 [May 1775]; 2 pages, in-8. He regrets not having been able to satisfy his correspondent. ‘But you are not a magistrate; to entrust you with a department to work under me without that title would have been to reduce you to the rank of chief clerk. To avoid this appearance, it would have been necessary to devise and create some new post; which at that time would have stirred up a clamour, which I was perhaps foolish enough to fear’. He merged Mr Albert’s department with that of Fagès… ‘Du Pont must have informed you that we were not satisfied with the sixth letter’…
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part I
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Auction time 10/13/2026 at 2:00 PM
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