Louis DAUBENTON (1716-1800), naturalist,... - Lot 25 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Louis DAUBENTON (1716-1800), naturalist,... - Lot 25 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Louis DAUBENTON (1716-1800), naturalist, collaborator of Buffon, member of the Academy of Sciences. Autograph letter signed to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. 1 p. ½ in-4. Paris, May 9, 1793. Address on the back with broken wax seal. When he received his letter the day before, he was with Lakanal, of the Committee of public instruction; "to the article of the empty barrels of flour, he said to me that he had to see with the minister of the Interior in the day and that if I wanted to give him your letter, he would ask for the order for the barrels; indeed, I received yesterday evening a letter of the citizen Lakanal who says to me that the sixty barrels will be sent today". He says he is worried "about cit. Valencienne about the recruitment; it was decided yesterday in the section that a proclamation would be made three days in a row to offer three hundred pounds to the citizens who would like to enroll voluntarily, and that if, at the end of this time, the number was not complete, one would draw lots. The question of whether married men will draw lots with the boys will be discussed today. [] I showed Cit. Lakanal the new gallery [of the Museum] and I explained to him the pressing need to decorate it; he took great interest in it. Provenance : Charavay (March 1982, n°39470).
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