TALLEMANT François l'Aîné (1620-1693) aumônier du Roi, tradu - Lot 214

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TALLEMANT François l'Aîné (1620-1693) aumônier du Roi, tradu - Lot 214
TALLEMANT François l'Aîné (1620-1693) aumônier du Roi, traducteur de Plutarque [AF 1651, 16e f]. L.A.S. " L'abbé Tallemant ", Paris July 15 [1681, to Pierre-Daniel HUET]; 4 pages small in-4. A long, rare and curious letter with news from the Academy and the Court. He is prevented from going to Aunay and Caen, to his great regret, because business and trials stop him in Paris. "For you Sir you can call your abaïe as the Venetians called a city I don't know if it is Vicense or Verone filia sine dolore because it surrendered to them and they had no pene to make the conquest of it" He gives news of the Academy, disdaining both the speeches in prose and the verses proposed for the prizes. "One sees an eglogue which smells well of Monsieur du Perrier and perhaps too much so, for you know that the disposition of minds in his favor is not great. Monsieur DOUJAT is Director and Monsieur RACINE is Chancellor. If I were to speak to you here about fisicals, you who are a great anatomist, I would tell you that a Madame Arsan, chambermaid to Madame la Dauphine, died quite suddenly of a colic and having been opened, it was found that she had two matrices which [] held to the same neck, which resembled, it is said, those large bursae which, having only one entrance, are divided into various bladders. She was five to six months pregnant, and her child was unfortunately placed in the purse that had the least capacity so that it could not expand and was choked, and it is said that this is what caused the mother to die [] Several people of the highest quality attended the opening of the body and Monsieur among others. They took the whole thing to the Queen [] See all my news, I would like it to be of a different nature, but we have to be content with the things that come up. There are many edicts against the Huguenots. HUET noted at the top of the letter: "woman with two matrices".
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