Simon CHARDON DE LA ROCHETTE (Saint-Sauveur-de-Ginestoux, Lozère 1753-1814), philologist and bibliographer. 6 autograph letters (most signed), some addressed to the Burgundian scholar Charles-Nicolas Amanton, one to Duperron. 14 pp. in-4 and in-8. Rouen and Paris, 1780-1812. Fine scholarly correspondence: essays on books (one letter partly written in Greek), the dispatch of works, etc. A letter written in July 1789 relates to the dispatch of books, in particular the OEuvres de La Fontaine bound in morocco and "les lettres de Mirabeau à ses commetteurs". Some of the letters bear witness to revolutionary events: "[...] I do not believe that Barthélemy was a conspirator; but he was a weak man who wanted to cuddle the goat and the cabbage who, advocated by the aristocracy before and after his elevation, did not want to miss the people like it should, whose company he had always frequented and who finally let himself be circumvented by this cunning Carnot, republican in the manner of Mde O... with character, brazenness, embracing in the gallery after 9-thermidor the cause of his colleagues Barrère, Collot-d'Herbois, etc. [...]". [...] ".