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FRENCH HISTORY -- 17th-19th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 29 autograph letters signed and letters signed by statesmen, politicians and generals including: Cardinal MAZARIN (signed as secretary to Richelieu, with long autograph postscript, to the Abbé Scaglia, dated Narbonne and Lyons, 11 May-18 August 1642, mentioning negotiations over Savoy and hoping to complete his journey to Rome [written during Richelieu's last illness and before the execution at Lyons of the conspirator Cinq-Mars]); Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de RICHELIEU (minute, in Charpentier's hand, of a letter to Noêl de Silléry [ambassador at Rome] asking him to present his translation to the pope to whom it is dedicated, and he will also give it to Cardinal Ludoviso [1622?]); Anne-Robert Jacques TURGOT (as Intendant of Limoges, reconmending Trésaguet as engineer and road-builder, 1767); Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de MIRABEAU (to Boucher [Lieutenant of Police at Vincennes] on his sufferings in prison 'Adieu mon ami, aimez-moi et plaignez-moi', and referring to the magistrate's visit, 1779); Louis de SAINT-JUST (an epigram 'Sur le comédien Dubois'); Theresa TALLIEN ('P[rin]cesse de Chimay', thanking the governor of the bank for his kindness); TALLEYRAND (concerning a recommendation to the Directory for the post of ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople, 1798); Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme (letter signed, text in the hand of Jean Balberg de Campistro, 23 August 1782); Charles PICHEGRU (to a friend joking about his 'embonpoint' and a girl); Charles-François-DUMOURIEZ (to a friend on the latest rumours of the war, 1813; and to [Marshal Macdonald], welcoming the King's award to a former aide, and reminiscing, 1818); Auguste-Charles, Comte de FLAHAUT DE LA BILLARDERIE (on [Louis-Philippe]'s concern over the intentions of England, 'on ne les croit pas pacifiques et on les croit malveillants pour la France', 1831); General Guillaume Henri DUFOUR (two letters, one referring to a military charity committee, 1839 and 1861); Victor-Henri ROCHEFORT (on his escape from New Caledonia, 'Si vous aviez chanté chez les Canaques, je n'aurais jamais songé à m'évader de Nouvelle Calédonie', 1870?); others by signatories including: Gaspard de Monge (3), Abraham Anquetil-Duperron (3), Gaston, Duc d'Orléans, Antoine, Duc de Gramont, Colbert, Fréron, Pierre Daru (on the printing of volume iv 'des impressions de la chambre des députés'), Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, Duc de Cadore, Adolphe Thiers, Guizot, Ferdinand de Lesseps (proposing to publicise the Central African project), Leopold II King of the Belgians, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.
FRENCH HISTORY -- 17th-19th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 29 autograph letters signed and letters signed by statesmen, politicians and generals including: Cardinal MAZARIN (signed as secretary to Richelieu, with long autograph postscript, to the Abbé Scaglia, dated Narbonne and Lyons, 11 May-18 August 1642, mentioning negotiations over Savoy and hoping to complete his journey to Rome [written during Richelieu's last illness and before the execution at Lyons of the conspirator Cinq-Mars]); Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de RICHELIEU (minute, in Charpentier's hand, of a letter to Noêl de Silléry [ambassador at Rome] asking him to present his translation to the pope to whom it is dedicated, and he will also give it to Cardinal Ludoviso [1622?]); Anne-Robert Jacques TURGOT (as Intendant of Limoges, reconmending Trésaguet as engineer and road-builder, 1767); Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de MIRABEAU (to Boucher [Lieutenant of Police at Vincennes] on his sufferings in prison 'Adieu mon ami, aimez-moi et plaignez-moi', and referring to the magistrate's visit, 1779); Louis de SAINT-JUST (an epigram 'Sur le comédien Dubois'); Theresa TALLIEN ('P[rin]cesse de Chimay', thanking the governor of the bank for his kindness); TALLEYRAND (concerning a recommendation to the Directory for the post of ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople, 1798); Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme (letter signed, text in the hand of Jean Balberg de Campistro, 23 August 1782); Charles PICHEGRU (to a friend joking about his 'embonpoint' and a girl); Charles-François-DUMOURIEZ (to a friend on the latest rumours of the war, 1813; and to [Marshal Macdonald], welcoming the King's award to a former aide, and reminiscing, 1818); Auguste-Charles, Comte de FLAHAUT DE LA BILLARDERIE (on [Louis-Philippe]'s concern over the intentions of England, 'on ne les croit pas pacifiques et on les croit malveillants pour la France', 1831); General Guillaume Henri DUFOUR (two letters, one referring to a military charity committee, 1839 and 1861); Victor-Henri ROCHEFORT (on his escape from New Caledonia, 'Si vous aviez chanté chez les Canaques, je n'aurais jamais songé à m'évader de Nouvelle Calédonie', 1870?); others by signatories including: Gaspard de Monge (3), Abraham Anquetil-Duperron (3), Gaston, Duc d'Orléans, Antoine, Duc de Gramont, Colbert, Fréron, Pierre Daru (on the printing of volume iv 'des impressions de la chambre des députés'), Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, Duc de Cadore, Adolphe Thiers, Guizot, Ferdinand de Lesseps (proposing to publicise the Central African project), Leopold II King of the Belgians, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.