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1 - Jean-François BOYER (1675–1755) * A 2-page autograph signed …
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Jean-François BOYER (1675–1755) * A 2-page autograph signed letter dated 29 October 1743. Addressee: Claude-Henry Feydeau de Marville (1740–1747) **. Dimensions: 17 x 21.6 cm. The writer expresses his regret following an invitation that was declined: ‘So you do not wish to come and see (…) yet I would be delighted to welcome you here; and it seems to me that you had promised to come (…). You may make whatever use you see fit of this letter; I am sending it to you simply to ease my conscience (…). A fine copy. * Bishop of Mirepoix, elected to the Académie Française in 1736, to the Académie des Sciences in 1738 and to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1741. ** A French administrator who served as Lieutenant of the General Police, Councillor of State, Royal Councillor of Finance and Director-General of the Economats… Charles-Pierre COLARDEAU (1732–1776) * An unsigned, handwritten letter of two pages, written at Etiolles and dated 27 July 1775. Dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm. A collection of poems, including ‘galanteries’: ‘you will see that the oriental style, or that of the Holy Scriptures, is at least as passionate as my own. Moreover, there is a fine line between sensuality and a libertine tone’. A fine example. Provenance: Aristophil collection. *French poet and translator, elected to the Académie française in 1776 François-Urbain DOMERGUE (1745–1810) * A one-page autograph signed letter dated 6 Brumaire, Year II [27 October 1793], addressed to Citizen Noël**, ‘former ambassador, Inspector-General of Education’. Dimensions: 11 x 17.5 cm. Following a stirring preamble: ‘My dear colleague in the arts of Apollo. I eagerly seize this opportunity (…) to tell you how much we ought to congratulate the public education system for having, as one of its leaders, a man who so skilfully combines philosophy and literature’; he recommends enrolling one of his colleagues (Citizen Olivier) in Marseille ‘(…) at one of the leading lycées where a professorship is to be established’. A fine copy. Letters by Domergue are rare (see R. Bonnet’s bibliography of the Académie française). *French grammarian and journalist elected to the Académie française in 1803. **Jean-François-Joseph-Michel Noël (1756–1841), humanist and man of letters] AMELOT DE CHAILLOU Jean-Jacques (1689–1749)* Autograph signed letter dated ‘22 May’ in Versailles, addressed to the Prince of Grimberghen [Louis Joseph d’Albert de Luynes (1672–1758), then Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of France]; 1p in-4 (Dimensions: 16.5 x 21.5 cm): ‘I am most grateful to Your Excellency for your ???... for sharing the news she has received, which I shall certainly report to His Majesty [Louis XV]. She can only be delighted to learn that the Emperor [Karl VII, formerly Karl Albrecht, King of Bavaria. Crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1742] is pleased with … de Broglie. You can see that I did not mislead you in assuring you of his good intentions…’. One page. Format: 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Fine copy. * Intendant of La Rochelle (1720–1726), Intendant of Finance (1726), Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1737–1744), Superintendent of the Post Office (1737). Member of the Académie française (1727). Appraisal carried out by Pascal GUILLEBAUD. Lot from a voluntary sale.
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