DUBOS Jean-Baptiste, abbé (1670-1742) diplomate, historien e - Lot 59

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DUBOS Jean-Baptiste, abbé (1670-1742) diplomate, historien e - Lot 59
DUBOS Jean-Baptiste, abbé (1670-1742) diplomate, historien et théoricien ; il fut Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie [AF 1720, 39e f]. 2 L.A.S. "L'abbé DuBos", Paris 1738, to Jean-Bernard LE BLANC, at the Duke of Kingston, London; 3 and 2 pages in-4, addresses with red wax seals (one broken) with the motto A l'Immortalité. Interesting news of the Parisian literary life. January 12, 1738. He asks how to send him his Histoire critique de l'etablissement de la monarchie françoise. "One will see incessantly the first two volumes of the second edition of the Scriptores Coaetanei of the history of France, of which DU CHESNE gave the first. We have already given our Receuil de pieces recitees to the Academy during 1736 and 1737. You will have seen where you are the Almanach du Diable for 1738. It is less than nothing. One represented for the first time at the Comedie Françoise last Friday the Metromanie comedy in verse and in five acts by Mr. PIRON. The play was a success " March 12, 1738. He received his book shipment, and his verses gave him great pleasure. "The privilege that Monsieur de VOLTAIRE asked for to publish his Exposition of the system of Monsieur Newton was refused. The author is still at Sirey." He reports on the success of Maximien de LA CHAUSSÉE, a subject already treated by Thomas Corneille, and on the reception speech of the Duke de LA TRÉMOILLE at the Academy: he "treated his subject [the marshal d'Estrées] cavalierly. He spoke like an orator. Monsieur de Saint Aulaire, in spite of his age of ninety-four years, answered him. There are touching and elegant places at the same time in this answer ".
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