Boissy d'Anglas (François-Antoine de). Signed... - Lot 7 - Osenat

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Boissy d'Anglas (François-Antoine de). Signed... - Lot 7 - Osenat
Boissy d'Anglas (François-Antoine de). Signed autograph letter to AntoineFrançois Delandine. Paris, February 14, 1807. 2 pp. 1/2 in-12, address on the back, tear due to the opening without affecting the text. "« ... You are always as ingenious as you are obliging, you seem to make almost a book out of a simple bibliographic announcement, and you always find a way to say memorable things to those you love, I thank you for that as far as I am concerned, You know that in all respects your vote is one of those of which I am most proud, because it is that of a good man, and a commendable man of letters, and that I have dedicated to you for many years now as much attachment as esteem... The 3rd class of the Institute elected yesterday 2 correspondents, Mr. [ Jacques] Vincens-St-Laurens of the Academy of Nismes, and Mr.[Alexandre-Jules-Antoine de] Fauris de St-Vincent, residing in Aix... "He also apologizes for not being able to visit him in Lyon during his trip, due to his daughter's illness. A former lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly, AntoineFrançois Delandine was a member and librarian of the Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Arts of Lyon. Author of books of historical scholarship, he was also a corresponding member of the Institute (Académie des Inscriptions et belles-lettres). Boissy d'Anglas, a respected figure of the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration. A lawyer in favour of new ideas, he embraced revolutionary principles and was elected to the Estates General in 1789, sitting in assemblies under almost all the successive regimes from 1789 to 1797, from 1801 to 1814 and from 1815 to 1826. During the Revolution, as a supporter of the order, he was hostile to royalist insurrections as well as to the excesses of Terror, and voted for a simple imprisonment of Louis XVI. Member of the Committee of Thermidorian Public Salvation as Cambaceres, he nevertheless frequented the royalist club of Clichy and was victim of the coup d'état of the 18 fruct
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