SAINT-ÉVREMOND Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis de (1614- - Lot 199

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SAINT-ÉVREMOND Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis de (1614- - Lot 199
SAINT-ÉVREMOND Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis de (1614-1703) Moraliste, pamphlétaire et philosophe, il ne fut jamais académicien : un pamphlet trouvé chez Fouquet l'avait obligé à s'exiler en 1661 et il vécut tout le reste de sa vie en Anglete L.A., [London] December 11, 1699, to the abbé de HAUTEFEUILLE at the Hôtel de Bouillon in Paris; 3 pages in-4, address with remainder of red wax seal. Beautiful letter after the death of his friend and protector, Hortense MANCINI, duchess of MAZARIN (died on July 2), and about NINON DE LENCLOS. He speaks about "the whole declaration of the debts of Madame Masarin which can serve of nothing but to increase the number of the creditors. The house was estimated at two thousand eight hundred pieces, all the furniture she had is worth only six hundred, there are nearly six thousand pieces of legitimate debts and many others [] it is a miracle that Madame Masarin has been able to survive as honorably as she has. You cannot believe the esteem in which she was held, not only in England, but in all nations. If she lived and went to Rome, I believe she would make a pope. He mentions the annuity which is paid to him "from six months to six months. The half year is due last October 1st. Out of eleven and a half years Madame la Marechalle gave five hundred ecus to Monsieur le Duc de LAUZUN, it will be easy to know what you have made me hold" He has a proposal to make : "As I need money I will give half of what is due me to have the other money in cash with the half year due, the trader having to have the other one which will expire on the first of April if I am not mistaken"... He asks for news of NINON DE LENCLOS, "who wrote me a letter which would shame all the academics without excepting one of them. I have never had a better one; and what pleases me, is that there is a naturalness which would make as much shame to the youth, as the accuracy and the correctness could make it to Messieurs of the academy ". L'Académie française au fil des lettres, p. 84-87.
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