Lot no. 475
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Estimate: €200 - €300
Bon-Joseph DACIER (Valognes 1742-1833), philologist, perpetual secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions, member of the Académie française.
- 9 letters, mostly signed, 1789 - 1831, 11 pp. in-4, in-8 and in-folio, many on the letterhead of the Institut national. Addressed to Abbé Brotier (July 1789, mentioning "the circumstances" which hardly allowed him to think about literature), Chambette (printing work for the Institut), Boinvilliers correspondent of the Institut, to a "respectable colleague" (on the cancellation of the Institut's contract with Baudouin, 1807), to the Inspector of the Royal Printing House (long letter on the printing of the Institut's Reports), Cardot, Barbié du Bocage, etc., mostly signed.
- 1 signed document (power of attorney)
Attached is a manuscript A.S. "La légende d'Yvonne par Mme Henriette Dacier" (9 pp. small in-4).
See original version (French)
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