TRESSAN Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne, comte de (1705-1783) l - Lot 222

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TRESSAN Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne, comte de (1705-1783) l - Lot 222
TRESSAN Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne, comte de (1705-1783) lieutenant général et écrivain, il traduisit les romans de chevalerie et fit des travaux sur l'électricité [AF 1780, 31e f]. 3 L.A.S. "Tressan Lt gl", Paris 1774 and n.d.; 9 pages in-4 (engraved portrait enclosed). July 15, 1774. Recommendation of his brothers-in-law: the eldest, knight RUSSEL, continues to serve at the Superior Council of Pondicherry in spite of the reform which suppressed his appointees, and he fulfills in addition the functions of commissioner of wars and civil Lieutenant of the Blacks; in this last office, "faithful to your principles and to imitate you, he has succeeded in [] gaining the confidence and the friendship of the Blacks on whom he has taken the greatest empire" The other, lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, has succeeded to the command of M. Ygles in the army of Aden Ali Kan and "an intimate friend of his son, he is a boy of great value" Etc. - August 20 [1783], to a new correspondent of the Academy of Sciences, whose election he announces in spite of "some old beards who find this charming mine of vint years very young to appear with theirs" The duke of La Rochefoucauld, d'Alembert, Condorcet, Le Bossut, etc. declared "that in this academy one dated for the age of the usefulness of his works" He speaks about his eulogy of FONTENELLE - On Tuesday, to a marquis, announcing his forthcoming arrival in Versailles An autograph POEM is attached, 7 verses in homage to a princess of Orleans: "I was born to serve your august ayeux / They loved of mine the service and the homage", followed by details on the services of his great-uncle, first chaplain of Monsieur, and of his great-aunt, "daughter of honor of Madame in 1672"; and a P.A.S., June 3, 1737, bill of exchange. Plus a p.a.s. from his father (receipt, 1738).
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