BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE. R.P. Claude LION, priest of the oratory, M - Lot 169

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BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE. R.P. Claude LION, priest of the oratory, M - Lot 169
BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE. R.P. Claude LION, priest of the oratory, Marseille. Autograph letter signed (2 pp. in-4) to M. de La Garde, procureur général en la Cour d'Aix. Accompanying a manuscript of 12 pp. in-4, in Latin. "Massilia" [Marseille], October 1703. Piece in verse celebrating the capture of Brisac by the Duke of Burgundy (Sept. 6, 1703), titled "Brisacum captum sive Serenissimi principis ducis Burgundiae Proesaga victoriarum proeludia Epinicium". With letter of dispatch. "Il seroit deia tems que ma muse me laisseat en repos, et qu'elle et moi nous fissions un véritable divorce [...]. Monseigneur de Bourgogne's victory was too beautiful a suiet and too august a subject [...]". Bouches-du-Rhône: see also n°406, 579 and 682
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